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  • NMA To Work With Incoming Government For Better Health Care System

    NMA To Work With Incoming Government For Better Health Care System

    By Muhammad Ibrahim,Sokoto

    The leadership of the Sokoto State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has pledged to work with the incoming APC-led administration under Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto towards ensuring a dynamic health system in the State.

    This is contained in a congratulatory letter sent to the APC leader in the State, Sen. Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, Sarkin Yamman Sokoto by the executive members of the association.

    The letter was jointly signed by the Chairman and Assistant Secretary of the Union, Dr. Umar Mukhtar and Dr. Abdulrahman Ahmad, respectively.

    The leadership of the union further used the medium to congratulate Senator Wamakko, Sokoto State Governor-elect, Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto and all the elected APC candidates for emerging victorious during the last elections in the State.

    The Association said a committee of medical elders, think-thank and Chief Executive Officers of heath institutions in the State, as well as key stakeholders had been set up.

    They will x-ray the health sector of Sokoto State with a view to coming up with a road map that will begin to reverse the decay in the health sector.

    The committee will also fashion out a way forward for the sector in the State so as to provide quality health services to the people of the State.

    The leadership of the Association also attributed the successes recorded by APC candidates to the sterling qualities of leadership and unblemished track record of great developmental strides of the former Governor of the State, Sen. Wamakko.

    Responding, Senator Wamakko thanked them for the message and prayed Allah to reward them abundantly.

    He also pledged his readiness to work together with the Association towards the attainment of the set target for the overall development of the state especially on the health sector development.

  • COVID:19 Violators in Imo risk six months jail term, N20,000 fine – Gov. Uzodinma

    COVID:19 Violators in Imo risk six months jail term, N20,000 fine – Gov. Uzodinma

    Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, in a live broadcast on Friday said that henceforth, violators of COVID-19 protocol in the state will serve a jail term of six months or pay the sum of 20,000 naira for their release if caught by the state task force.

    The Governor regretted the complacent attitude of most Imo people towards the invasion of the virus, describing it as mere self delusion.

    He said that the wearing of face mask will henceforth be enforced with a renewed vigour and charged the state COVID-19 task force led by Prof. Maurice Iwu to arrest and prosecute anyone seen in public without putting their face mask on.

    According to him, “four mobile courts have been put in place, two in the state capital and one each in Orlu and Okigwe zones, to try offenders.

    “The penalty for not wearing face mask is a maximum jail term of six months or N20,000 in lieu.

    “The Executive Order also provides that any gathering of more than 50 persons anywhere in the state is an offense. The conveners of such gatherings also risk six months jail or N20, 000 in lieu.

    “All hotels, eateries, supermarkets and stores are by this order compelled to provide hand sanitizers, wash hand stands, test the temperature of their customers and insist on face masks before admitting them into their premises.

    “Any store, supermarket, eatery, night club and hotel that fails to adhere to these rules will be promptly shut down. In addition, the proprietors will be prosecuted.

    “These measures equally apply to all religious gatherings, marriages and funerals. If it is clear from the realities on ground that extra or more stringent measures must be taken to keep our people safe, I will have no choice but to authorize a second lockdown in the state.

    “For those who still don’t believe that coronavirus is real, may I announce to you that this second wave is not only real but deadly. Let us be guided accordingly,” he concluded.

  • Gov. Uzodinma exposes IMSU VC for using his son to collect tuition

    Gov. Uzodinma exposes IMSU VC for using his son to collect tuition

    It was a good one for Imo people over the weekend the state Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma exposed the Vice Chancellor of Imo State University for using a company, Tenssy Professional Services, a company owned by his son, Izuchukwu Obasi for collection of tuition for the institution.

    According to the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Oguwike Nwachuku, Uzodinma gave the order during the State Executive Council meeting, which was held at the Government House and was presided over by the governor.

    He said the Governor ordered that state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Bernard Ikegwuoha, to issue a query to the IMSU VC, Prof. Adaobi Obasi, for allegedly not utilising the February subvention for the payment of salaries of lecturers and non-academic staff of the university.

    Nwachukwu said, “The council noted that following the rot in the Imo State University, the government has set up a committee working on a White Paper that will soon be made public.

    “It also said that despite the monumental fraud and revenue leakages in the university, the workers had been paid their salaries and allowances up to May 2020. It, however, frowned on a situation, where the university could not pay workers their February salaries after the government had released January and February subventions to the university authority.

    “To this effect, the government has directed the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ikegwuoha, to issue a query to the vice-chancellor of the university on why she could not pay when the money had been released to her.

    “The government also discovered that a company called Tenssy Professional Services, which collects school fees for the university, is also owned by the son of the vice-chancellor and that the same consultant collects fees from other tertiary institutions in Imo State,” he said.

  • Gov. Uzodinma adopts 9-year gospel singer found on Facebook

    Gov. Uzodinma adopts 9-year gospel singer found on Facebook

    Luck has continued to follow Master Joseph Oluomachi Opara who was discovered on Facebook singing Catholic gospel songs while hawking coconut in a Imo State as the state Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma has announced his intention to adopt and send him to school.

     

    On Sunday, two former Aviation ministers, Femi Fani Kayode and Sen. Stella Oduah had posted on social media their intention to offer scholarship to the boy up to university level while Oduah promised to admit him, free of charge to her music school.

     

    Uzudinma said he adopted the boy as his child and undertook to personally sponsor him from primary school to Catholic priesthood, if that is the career he wants to pursue.

     

    Announcing the development to the Opara family home in Nekede mechanic village in Owerri Sunday, state commissioner for information and strategy, Declan Emelumba, said the governor sent him to inform the family that he has adopted their son as his own child and will personally take over full responsibility for training him until he becomes a Rev. Father which he said is his ambition

     

    “His Excellency Dist Sen. Hope Uzodimma was so excited after listening to the video of Master Opara that he directed me to locate you and inform you that from today Joseph is now his child and that since he wants to become a catholic priest he will take up the responsibility of training him from his present primary 4 class until he is ordained a priest” Emelumba announced to the family.

     

    Joseph’s Father Berneth Opara, said he was very grateful to the governor for his magnanimity.

    “Please thank our performing governor, ONWA Oyoko for me. God has used him to bless my family,” he said, just as Joseph himself was full of gratitude to the governor.