Resident Doctors in Rivers pull out of nationwide strike by NARD dailypost.ng - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypost.ng Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation launches geriatric care endowment fund at Rivers varsity
On
Kindly Share This Story:
Much-needed research into the health needs of the elderly receives a major boost as the Port-Harcourt based O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation inaugurates a committee to operationalize its N50 million High Chief (Dr.) O.B. Lulu-Briggs Geriatric Care Endowment Fund to be domiciled at the Rivers State University.
Initially announced on the occasion of High Chief O.B. Lulu-Briggs’s first posthumous birthday in 2019, the Foundation said the Fund would be used to promote Geriatric Care and research into the care of the elderly at the RSU teaching hospital in line with its longstanding commitment to caring for the elderly.
PORT HARCOURT – Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has urged the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) not to politicise approved quota for Medical and Dental Schools in Nigeria.
He stated this when a delegation of the accreditation team of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to the Rivers State University College of Medical Sciences paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Governor Wike, urged the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to resist playing politicss with approved quota for Medical and Dental Schools in Nigeria, particularly the Rivers State University College of Medical Sciences where huge investment has been made in the provision of requisite facilities.
Wike says investment in medical school enough to earn accreditation tribuneonlineng.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribuneonlineng.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The House of Representatives has called for the immediate suspension of the controversial Special Works Scheme of the Federal Government.
The National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Employment and Productivity had clashed over the recruitment of 774,000 workers for the scheme.
At the plenary, yesterday, the House asked the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning not to fund the scheme, which is billed to take off in January, 2021.
The National Assembly had appropriated N52billion for the exercise in the 2020 Appropriation Act.
It was to begin in November.
The House also faulted the removal of the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, Dr Nasiru Argungu, who had backed the parliament in the controversy.