Godsgift Onyedinefu

4 days ago | businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu

… as $300m facility opens Thursday to create over 5,000 jobsAfreximbank’s $300 million African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) in Abuja is set for official launch on Thursday, targeting to plug Nigeria’s over $2 billion annual foreign exchange losses to medical tourism and related foreign exchange outflows. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare put Nigeria’s loss to medical tourism at over $2 billion annually.

5 days ago | businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu

Private philanthropic organisation, TY Danjuma Foundation, has signed a partnership agreement with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to boost domestic resource mobilisation and support sustainable health financing in Nigeria over the next ten years. This agreement follows the United States’ decision under President Donald Trump to withdraw from the WHO, including ending its funding, which was one of the organisation’s biggest sources of finance.

5 days ago | businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued a four-week ultimatum to the Federal Government, demanding urgent action on a series of unresolved welfare issues affecting its members. In a statement issued Monday after its Ordinary General Meeting, held between 26 and 31 May in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, the Association expressed “significant disappointment” over the Government’s continued failure to implement critical aspects of its welfare package.

6 days ago | businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu

Bello Goronyo, the minister of state for works, has disclosed that the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) requires approximately ₦880 billion annually to maintain Nigeria’s federal road network. The minister said this on Monday when he appeared before the House of Representatives committee investigating the alleged non-remittance of the five percent user charge on petrol and diesel earmarked for federal road maintenance. “Our roads are the lifelines of commerce and social integration.

6 days ago | businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu

If the National Assembly were a school, the House of Representatives could easily be the class that lives for the bell. Last week, Nigeria’s representatives could not hide their excitement to embark on another holiday. On Wednesday, May 29, the House officially adjourned plenary and entered recess mode, marking the third such break in two months alone. The stated reason? To commemorate both Democracy Day on June 12 and the upcoming Sallah celebrations to return on June 17.