Health

By Johnson Nwankwo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed an executive order suspending tariffs, excise duties, and value-added tax (VAT) on imported pharmaceu machinery and other inputs. It was gathered that the move was to make the essential commodities affordable. The coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, stated the signing on Friday. He said the initiative aims to rejuvenate Nigeria’s health sector and increase local production of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices such as needles and syringes, biologicals, and medical textiles. The order to be codified by the minister of justice and attorney general of the federation,…

Friends and colleagues of Abubakar Alimi, a journalist based in Lokoja, Kogi state, have launched an appeal for funds to enable him undergo kidney transplant. The Publisher of Kogi Express, the leading community newspaper in Lokoja, Kogi State, is presently on admission at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory. Alimi at the hospital His colleagues, Sheddy Ozoene, Dada Ahmed and James Oyewole are appealing to public-spirited individuals and organizations to come to his assistance. For the past five months he has been down with kidney failure and now admitted to the University of Abuja…