Author: Binta Kabir

THE Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide strike and will resume work on Saturday. The association’s national president Innocent Orji confirmed the development on Friday evening. “Good evening. We just suspended the strike. Work to resume 8am tomorrow,” he said in a terse message to News Point Nigeria. “We will review the progress made in two weeks.” The move is coming days after the doctors suspended their planned nationwide protest to press home their demands. According to the NARD chief, the doctors are pushing for eight things including the recruitment of more persons to replace doctors…

THE Federal Government has says the 2023 flood situation across the country is worsening as 20 states, and 46 Local Government Areas have been hit by different degrees of flooding. It said this had resulted in the demise of about five people. It disclosed this at the National Emergency Coordination Forum, organised by the National Emergency Management Agency in Abuja. In his address at the forum, the Director-General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, Clement Nze, noted that in February 2023, NIHSA presented the 2023 Annual Flood Outlook to the public. “The general outlook shows that 178 LGAs fall within the high…

GOVERNMENT officials should be mandated to use only vehicles assembled in Nigeria, Senator Ireti Kingibe argued on Wednesday with respect to the outcry over the high cost of governance as Nigerians cope with economic hardships, adding that she rides “a 1986 car”. The senator representing the FCT, who appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today monitored by News Point Nigeria, argued that “we cannot continue like this”. Asked what she would do differently to tackle the situation, Kingibe said, “I would insist that all government vehicles must have been assembled in Nigeria. That would go a long way to improving productivity…