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Nasarawa Governor’s wife inaugurates medical outreach for 1,000 indigenes
Wife of Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Hajiya Silifat Sule, has inaugurated an outreach for free medical intervention for about 1,000 Indigenes in the state.
Sule inaugurated the outreach shortly after concluding a road walk with members of the Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) who were in Lafia for their annual conference on Monday.
The medical outreach is part of activities of AHAPN 23rd Annual National Scientific Conference in Lafia from Aug. 1 to 5 with the theme ‘COVID-19 Experience: Expanding the role of health system by pharmacists.’
Sule appreciated the association for the medical intervention adding that the gesture will go a long way to address the immediate medical needs of people in the state.
Sule who called on residents to reciprocate the gesture of the association by coming out en masse to be attended to, also thanked the association for choosing Lafia to organise the Annual National Scientific Conference.
In an interview, National Chairman of the AHAPN, Mr Olabode Ogunjemiyo, explained that organising the health outreach was part of the association’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which it carried out regularly.
“We always organise it to complement the efforts of the Nasarawa State Government in improving the health of its citizenry.
“I have the opportunity of enjoying the pharmaceutical care free of charge,” he said.
According to the AHAPN National Chairman, about 1000 Indigenes are expected to benefit from the outreach which is only focused on basic ailments such as Malaria, High Blood Pressure among others.
“Most of the ailments don’t even require medication. There are some of them that will probably just require counselling. We are not treating chronic ailments here. We are only treating basic ailments,” he said.
A beneficiary of the programme, Mallam Aliyu Magaji, said the gesture had gone a long way to tackle some health challenges of the people who were not buoyant enough to visit a health centre.
He urged the association to sustain the effort and called on other organisations and well meaning Nigerians to imitate the association.
“Some of us don’t go to hospital not because we dont want to go but because of the harsh economic situation we find ourselves.
“So for these people to bring this initiative here is a big plus for us. It has given us the opportunity to come out and get the medical attention that we wanted but cannot pay for,” he said.
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‘Establishment of criminality’ did not allow INEC server work – Peter Obi
Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, said it was the ‘establishment of criminality’ that made the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, servers not work during the last presidential election.
Obi, who insisted that the people must one day make it to work, explained that Amazon testified there were no glitches recorded globally on the day of the presidential election.
The former Anambra State governor made the statement on Friday in Canada while addressing the issues about the last general election, including IREV servers.
DAILY POST reports that the LP presidential candidate was in Canada for a “thank you” tour to appreciate Nigerians living in the country for their support offered him during the 2023 campaign/ general elections.
He said: “Where did we go wrong in the last election? We didn’t go wrong anywhere. We did the right things. But as I can always tell people: when you bring a change, you fight all those who live off the old order. They don’t go away; they gang up. And don’t think it’s a straight race to remove an establishment. It’s a long-distance journey anywhere in the world. Go and check anywhere, whether you are looking at what happened in India, with Mandela in South Africa, or America. No change has happened overnight, it takes time. I urge all of you, if you really want change, we have just begun. We just have to continue from where we are.
“Yes, there might be one or two things we will correct, those things we will correct. I assure you we are correcting them without naming them.
It’s not going to be easy.
“The INEC server was the same as the establishment. The server would not work because it was the establishment that made it so it wouldn’t work. It’s ours to continue to say that it would work. But there was no glitch. Amazon came and said there was no glitch. Amazon glitch is noticed globally – it’s recorded globally. And at that period, we brought down an Amazon person who said this is the number of glitches we have had since inception. And there was none that it reported that day. We know it didn’t occur. It was the glitch of the establishment criminality that was in the system. And we must one day make it work.”
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Special agro-industrial project will create jobs for 200,000 persons in Anambra – AFDB
Dr Chuma Ezedinma, Agricultural Economist at African Development Bank (AFDB), says the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone programme (SAPZ), will create jobs for no fewer than 200,000 residents in Anambra.
Ezedinma spoke with newsmen on the sidelines of a meeting tagged “Preparation Mission for the Development of the second phase of SPAZ programme” on Saturday in Anambra.
The meeting on the SPAZ-2 programme had officials from the Federal Ministries of Finance, Agriculture and Food Safety, AFDB, and the Anambra State Government.
According to him, AFDB is very much interested in what is happening in the state because Anambra’s presentation on the SPAZ project is the best seen so far, and shows the state’s readiness to run.
“From what we have seen, about 450 hectres of land will be dedicated to the industrial site.
“We are looking at approximately 5,000 farm families per zone. Multiply it by three zones, you have 15,000 farm families in the state.
“If you also add other secondary jobs that will be created in the park itself, you will see that we are creating real massive employment for more than 200,000 people over the next five years.
“The state government had already committed resources to put infrastructure in place and there is also a private sector interest to deliver this programme within a very short time,” he said.
Also speaking, Dr Louis Enaberue from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, commended Anambra State Government for its preparedness for the phase two of the SAPZ programme.
“What we saw in Anambra’s presentation shows they are ready for the phase two of SPAZ and I hope and pray they meet the grade.
“The state government is expected to pay 50 per cent counterpart fund, provide the land and other infrastructure for the project, and they are already working towards achieving them,” he said.
Similarly, Dr Forster Ihejiofor, the state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, said that the state’s Investment Promotion and Protection Agency, and the Ministry of Industry were working tirelessly to ensure that the SPAZ project was ready to go in Anambra.
“Clearly, we are ready because this project will transform agriculture in the state as it will increase farmers’ incomes, foster job creation and enhance food security in the state and country at large,” Ihejiofor said.
The delegation visited the three proposed sites for the SPAZ-2 project in Ayamelum, Ogboji in Orumba South and Ufuma in Orumba North Local Government Areas of the state.
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