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TODAY Médecins Sans Frontières Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) otherwise known as Doctors Without Borders (DWB) has devised a strategy to take medical care to hard-to-reach areas in the volatile Borno State. In some communities such as Zabarmari, which are too insecure for visits by MSF’s mobile team, the organisation employs a simple but effective method to provide children with essential healthcare. The MSF team trained a person from the neighbourhood (community) to carry out rapid malaria tests and malnutrition screening, and to either give appropriate medication or, if a child’s ...

Nigeria: MSF overcomes security challenges to treat children in Borno state Format MSF Mobile clinic © MSF Dusuman is a community outside Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state. Nearby is the neighbourhood of Zabarmari, where dozens of rice farmers were beheaded in November 2020 – a brutal act for which the group commonly known as Boko Haram took responsibility. The Nigerian military is struggling to retake control of the territory within Borno state as a whole, but many areas, such as Dusuman, remain very insecure. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to provid...

Minister approves use of 20 centres for NIN enrolment in FCT On Minister of Communications, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isah Ali Pantami, has approved the activation of 20 NIN enrolment centres within the FCT, to make the process easier, beginning from Jan. 18, Mr Kayode Adegoke, Head, Corporate Communications of NIMC, Abuja, has said. A statement he issued, on Saturday, said in the same vein, the minister had approved the closure of enrolment activities at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) office. “Members of the public, resi...

Pat Utomi Emma Okonji writes that the recent directives by the federal government compelling telecoms operators to suspend the sale and activation of new SIM cards and to within a two-week period, link all registered SIM cards to National Identification Number, is an onerous task as subscribes kick against the directives Nigerian telecoms subscribers with over 207 million active registered lines, last week, were taken by surprise when the federal government issued two directives, compelling telecoms operators to immediately suspend the registration and activation of new SIM cards, until the ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Identity Management Commission to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for National Identification Number retrieval requests. The NCC had recently asked telecommunication service providers to block SIM cards not registered with NIN after two weeks. The government also listed 173 centres and 30 state government institutions approved for NIN enrolment across Nigeria. Subscribers who had enrolled for NIN in the past ...