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In Nigeria, over three hundred children die of malaria every year while close to eighty million people fall ill with malaria. Despite this huge figure, many Nigerians are still ignorant of the need to prevent as well as treat malaria in the country. Today, Malaria Consortium and Support to National Malaria Program, SUNMAP held it’s Enugu End of Program Dissemination Meeting. The essence of the meeting is to enlighten stakeholders on the achievements and case studies of SuNMaP program in Enugu State from 2012 to 2016. Support to National Malaria Program, SUNMAP was set up to support the Nigerian government and people in tackling the great burden of malaria in the country.  It has so far assisted the government in establishing capacity need assessment which has helped them design a program for the country. The central aim of the government’s strategic plan is to deliver interventions that work. Malaria is a significant part of Nigeria’s health cha...

The presidency has since dismissed a report by Premium Times Media, detailing how President Muhammadu Buhari proposed N3.8 billion as capital spending for State House’s clinic over and above capital allocation meant for all other nation’s 16 teaching hospitals combined. Premium Times however insisted that the Presidency failed to provide facts contradicting the story it still stands by. Presidency however described the story as “insensitive” and “off the mark”. “This report is not simply off the mark but one that is insensitive to the government’s effort to improve medical facilities at home in Nigeria,” a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, read. The statement however admitted that the government budgeted N3.8 billion to be spent on the State House Clinic. Shehu said that the State House Clinic serves not just the president and staff of the presidency, but government officials and others. “The increased...

Ikpeazu and Emmanuel The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the elections of Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State and Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State. A seven-man bench, presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, unanimously affirmed the governors’ elections after upholding their separate appeals against the judgments of the Court of Appeal, which had ordered their removal from office. The decisions of the Supreme Court put paid to the legal actions initiated against Emmanuel and Ikpeazu, who contested the elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party on April 11, 2015, by their arch rivals. While Emmanuel’s election was challenged by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Okon Umana, that of Ikpeazu was challenged by All Progressive Grand Alliance’s candidate, Dr. Alex Otti. The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal had nullified the Akwa Ibom State governorship election in the entire 31 local go...