By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The recent exchanges between the Northern Elders Forum and the Minister of Solid Minerals Development on the appropriateness of locating a gold refinery in Lagos or not were healthy. It was a call for…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta With a budgetary provision of ₦1.61 trillion for the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in the 2025 national budget, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare,…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on its website  that, “Close to 1 (one) billion people in low- and lower-middle-income countries are estimated to be served by health-care facilities without reliable…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The recent fixing of the charge for life-saving kidney dialysis by the Federal government to a maximum of ₦12,000 per session in federal government medical facilities is a positive gesture worthy of appreciation…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta A group of shareholders of the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) have cried out over issues that need the attention of the regulators of the country's financial sector in order to safeguard the future of the Bank. …
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta Mele Kyari, the top Oil and Gas industry technocrat leading the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has attained the proverbial age of sixty. This in itself is something to celebrate in a country where…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The first ever customised and dedicated geriatrics ward in any tertiary healthcare institution in the 19 northern states was commissioned at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano, on August 13, 2024. …
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta As many people know I have defended decisions by the All Progressives Congress-led federal administration right from 2015, I have been accosted by many individuals to comment on the recent decision of…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The Minister of Transportation, Senator Sa’idu Alkali, has testified that the Kano-Daura-Maradi railway project which took off during the APC-led administration of past President Muhammadu Buhari is going on…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta A report in the Nigerian Journal of Cardiology in 2021 indicates  that,  heart or  cardio vascular  diseases involving the heart and blood vessels, particularly obesity-induced hypertension,  are rampaging…
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