Breaking News in Nigeria Today Thursday 9th January 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Thursday 9th January 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Agonies of children kidney, cancer patients
They are down with acute kidney diseases and cancer of different types. Their lives are seriously threatened. Lack of money to feed and continue their medical treatments to prolong their lives have compounded their woes. UCHENNA INYA, in Abakaliki, reports on the agonies of children patients in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA), Ebonyi State. O fforbuike is 14. He has protracted cancer of the tummy. His tummy is very big with his hands and legs tiny. He is lying critically ill at the children’s ward…
150 years after: Atani community resurrects Igbu Odu title
Okegwo Kenechukwu Onitsha I n Igbo traditional setting, titles are among the bench mark used for measuring the quality of any person in the society. It is in fact a reward for hard work, philanthropy and above all, an honour for the deserving sons and daughters as well as friends. However tittles like Igbu Odu, Ozo, Ozioko, Oluo-oha, Ogbueshi among others, are some of the prestigious titles given to the people who deserve it. South East focus however gathered that before in the 19th century, titles were…
Out-of-pocket payment limiting access to care
Since inception in June 2005, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), instead of growing its number of enrolees, from the initial six per cent, has retrogressed to about one per cent in 2019. APPOLONIA ADEYEMI reports on initiatives to rehabilitate the agency with a view to preventing unnecessary deaths J ummai Samila, 25, has not been herself since three months that she found her daughter, Wura Samila who is the fifth of her five children stigmatised. Sadly, it was not only the agemate of Wura, Idaya the…
Reps: 2019 in retrospect and 2020 expectations
PHILIP NYAM reviews activities of the House of Representatives in 2019 and projects what may likely shape deliberations in the Green Chamber this year T he year 2019 began with the February general elections, which saw 151 members of the Eight House of Representatives failing to return to the chambers. Due to electioneering activities, not much was recorded as the then outgoing leadership was trying to round off hence active legislative functions commenced after the inauguration of the Ninth House and election of presiding officers on June 11, 2019.…
Budget: 16 MDAs to acquire N2.8bn software
TECHNOLOGY Amidst concerns over wastes and mismanagement of funds, government is spending more on technology acquisition to achieve efficiency Samson Akintaro T he Federal Government will this year spend a total of N2.8 billion on computer software for 16 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), New Telegraph has learnt. Provisions for the acquisition have been made by the respective MDAs in the 2020 budget recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is coming amidst serious concerns by Nigeria’s ICT stakeholders that billions…
ECO: Nigeria’s dilemma over single currency
Abdulwahab Isa writes Ivory Coast’s unilateral decision, aided by France to adopt Eco as the country’s official currency ahead of ECOWAS region’s decision is an unexpected coup, which has put Nigeria in a fix, Abdulwahab Isa writes T he dream of having a single currency by Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, suffered multiple abortions in the past. Desirous of integrating West African countries into seamless regional block for easy trading and movement of goods and services within and among the regional members, 15…
‘Why Executive Order on telecoms infrastructure is delayed’
PROTECTION Government said its policy to protect telecoms infrastructure was undergoing security screening and will soon be signed into force Samson Akintaro T he Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, has said that the proposed Executive Order to declare telecommunications infrastructure as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) is being delayed for security reasons. According to the minister, contents of the document are currently being screened by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). As a result of increasing spate of attacks on…
Addressing USSD charges impasse
Recent disagreement between banks and telecom operators seems to have died down, but the issue remains unresolved. Stakeholders are worried that regulators of both sectors may be postponing the evil days by pretending that all is well. SAMSON AKINTARO reports A fter the uproar and condemnations that trailed recent moves by telecommunications operators to start charging consumers for the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), there has been calm in the payment system, notwithstanding the accusations and counter-accusations that followed the move. But if the words…
Oshoala: I want to create my own history
B arcelona’s Asisat Oshoala has won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations three times with Nigeria Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala has said she wants to ‘create her own history’ after winning the 2019 Confederation of African Football’s (Caf) Women’s Player of the Year award on Tuesday. The Super Falcons captain has now won the award for a fourth time equalling the record of fellow Nigerian Perpetua Nkwocha. Oshoala’s year included a goal at the Women’s World Cup to help Nigeria reach the last 16 in France and 10 goals…
CAF Awards: How Nigeria ganged up against Oshoala
•NFF, Nkwocha reject star Ajibade Olusesan Barcelona striker Asisat Oshoala won her fourth African Women of the Year Award Tuesday night but she would be surprised to know that her country worked against her emergence as winner. All of eligible voters from Nigeria at the polls surprisingly voted against the Super Falcons captain, according to the order of votes released by the Confederation of African Football on Wednesday. The Nigeria Football Federation technical committee refused to cast their vote in the first…
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