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Yakubu Gowon (right) in a warm handshake with the deputy governor of Enugu state, Hon. (Mrs.) Cecilia Ezeilo during his courtesy visit to Government House, Enugu Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has pledged to support and assist Yakubu Gowon Centre and its partners to control malaria and other neglected tropical diseases in the state. The former military head of state and initiator of the Centre, Gen Yakubu Gowon (rtd), visited the Government House, Enugu yesterday in furtherance of the pet programme of his centre in the coal city state. The governor commended Dr. Gowon and partners to his centre for the vision to embark on a mobilization campaign to control malaria and other neglected tropical diseases in the country. Governor Ugwuanyi in a speech through his deputy, Hon. Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, when Dr. Gowon and management of his centre and partners paid a courtesy call at the Government House, Enugu, yesterday expressed happiness over the remarkable successes reco...

Some resident doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, have backed out of the ongoing strike action declared by the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD in the hospital, saying the strike was unnecessary and against the interest of the patients. The resident doctors said it was quite disheartening that “soon after calling off an industrial action which lasted for almost three months, some politically-minded hatchet-men commenced another strike without sympathy for the helpless patients who should be protected by the Hippocratic Oath that we all took as medical doctors and who attend the hospital as their last hope.” A statement signed by two members of ARD UNTH chapter, Dr. Maxwell N. Egbugara and Dr Ihechiluru Oyebuchi, on behalf of Concerned members of the ARD and made available to newsmen in Enugu at the weekend, also condemned the publication made in a national daily by one Dr. Ifedinso Ugwuoke entitled “ UNTH performs sur...

A pressure group, Forum of South East, South-South and Middle-Belt Advocates for Better Nigeria, FOSESSMBA, has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to urgently constitute a panel to investigate the abandoned and poorly executed federal road contracts within the three zones. The group made the call after an interactive session held in Enugu where participants from the three geopolitical zones reviewed the plights of the people on account of the deplorable condition of federal roads and the near collapse of basic infrastructure in the area. The group noted that apart from the over 70 kilometer Enugu – Abakaliki single-carriage Federal Highway build under Trans-Sahara highway project during the last year of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, all other federal roads in the area have totally collapsed and now impassable. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Bon Onwubualili and Secretary, Tony Edike, the group observed that almost all the federal highways in th...

  WE MUST REINVENT DISCIPLINE, DILIGENCE IN OUR POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS,   GOVERNOR IFEANYI UGWUANYI VOWS The governor of Enugu state (3rd left), in a group photograph with the newly inaugurated members of Post Primary School Management Board, at Govt. House, Enugu.  Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has inaugurated a six-member newly reconstituted Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) with a charge to the   members to arrest the decline in discipline in secondary   schools in the state. The board members are Barr. Nestor Ezeme, Chairman, Messrs Obi Kama and Clement Inyaba members, Mrs. Obiageli Theresa Igwesi and Mrs. Veronica Ezeugwu are part-time members with Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi the Permanent Secretary of the board as Secretary. It was an occasion when the chairman of the new school board called on Governor Ugwuanyi to declare a state of emergency on computer education in the secondary school s...

  UNTH saves N120 million per annum through direct execution of outsourced services. The authorities of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH , Ituku / Ozalla , Enugu said at the weekend that over one hundred and twenty million Naira previously spent on outsourced services handled by contractors per annum had been saved following the decision to handle the services internally. These services were reviewed by the Chief Medical Director, Christopher Amah led administration with effect from July this year. Amah said the review followed the expiration of the five year contracts in the area of laundry, cleaning and security services in the hospital. He added that the review had also infused competition and efficiency in the system as more than one contractor now handle these services within the hospital. He announced that the perennial problem of water scarcity at the permanent site of the hospital had been laid to rest with...