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The President has opened a 2-day National Economic Council (NEC) retreat in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital territory. In his key note address, President Muhammadu Buhari took participants through random policy projections in four selected sectors; agriculture, power, manufacturing and housing. The President told his audience which includes the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, state governors, ministers and CBN officials that decisions reached at the retreat will not be final but only contributions for economic development and subject to review as they progress. He highlighted the need for Nigeria’s agricultural sector to be able to ensure local food production for food sufficiency, as more funding and appropriate resources must be provided to achieve this. Mechanized farming must also be promoted in Nigeria with the provision of feeder roads to transport crops to production plants and mills, while states increase support to community farmers and operat

The Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Hon. Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo(middle), in a handshake with the team leader, Institute of Child Health, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku Ozalla, Prof. Henrietta Uche Okafor, while the state's Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sam Ngwu looks on when Okafor led her team to a courtesy visit at Government House, Enugu, today. The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, says his administration will continue to partner with stakeholders, organizations and establishments in the health sector instituted to improve the health status of the people of the state. Governor Ugwuanyi represented by his deputy, Her Excellency, Cecilia Ezeilo made the assertion when he received in audience the management team of the institute of child health, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku Ozalla, in her office at Government House, Enugu. In his words “as a government, we have indeed previously expressed our determination to transform En

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reiterated his administration’s resolve to give priority attention to rural development where majority of the people reside. Addressing members of a delegation from Mburubu, Nkanu East local government area of the state who were at the Government House, Enugu on a thank you visit, Governor Ugwuanyi disclosed that his administration has identified some local council areas for intervention due to peculiar challenges of dearth of infrastructure like in the case of  Nkanu East, Awgu and Uzo-Uwani areas. The governor told members of the delegation led by the Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Enugu, Mr. Patrick Onuh, that the decision to concentrate development in the rural areas became imperative because there were urgent need to uplift the level of development at the grassroots.  He urged them to continue to offer special prayers for improvement in the revenue of the state so that government will be able to attend t

  The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has shut down 30 erring water factories in Nasarawa state between 2015 and 2016. The Acting NAFDAC Director-General, Mrs Oyentunde Oyin, disclosed this on Tuesday at the occasion of the annual water quality monitoring event at Fauzee Bottle Water Factory in Lafia. Oyin, who was represented by Mr Michael Attah, the agency's State Coordinator, said NAFDAC closed the factories during a routine but unannounced inspection tour. "In the course of our regulation and surveillance inspection from 2015 to 2016, we shut down more than 30 factories across the state for producing below standard. ``The agency has many sanctions for factories violating our standard or not adhering strictly to our rules and regulations.’’ She urged the public to help the agency with relevant information on poor products, based on their experience and the activities of illegal operators of water factories.

#STOPFGM/C NOW At least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in 30 countries, according to a new statistical report published ahead of the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.   Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Global Concern notes that half of the girls and women who have been cut live in three countries - Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia - and refers to smaller studies and anecdotal accounts that provide evidence FGM is a global human rights issue affecting girls and women in every region of the world.  Female genital mutilation refers to a number of procedures. Regardless of which form is practiced, FGM is a violation of children’s rights.  "Female genital mutilation differs across regions and cultures, with some forms involving life-threatening health risks. In every case FGM violates the rights of girls and women. We must all accelerate effort