Healthcare Delivery is People’s Right and Not Privilege, Says First Lady, Remi Tinubu Wants removal of all barriers to actualise health for all WHO: 4.5bn people lacked full essential health
Deji Elumoye, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja
First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has stated that healthcare
delivery is the people's right and not a privilege. She expressed concern over the widening gap
in health equity despite the progress made in the nation's healthcare sector.
In a statement personally signed and issued yesterday to mark this year's World Health
Day, Mrs Tinubu disclosed that Continued on page 5
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Atiku Raises Concerns Over Lagos-Calabar Highway Project Suggests it should have started from Calabar if genuine Chuks Okocha in Abuja Former Vice President Atiku Abubukar has expressed apprehension about the proposed Lagos-Calabar highway project restarted by President Bola Tinubu.
In a statement by his media aide, Paul Ibeh, Atiku said the 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar coastal highway plan should have commenced from Calabar if it were genuine, and not another project intended to merely cajole the people.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the last general election lamented that the road project looked dubious, with all the hallmarks of a white elephant project. Atiku alleged that the Tinubu
administration had again revealed its penchant for shady deals. The statement said, "This project returned to public discourse at the twilight of the Goodluck Jonathan administration in November 2014, wherein it was announced President
Jonathan had signed the 10-state, 22-station project with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at a cost of $11.97bn. "However, former President Jonathan could not begin the project before he lost the election.
But his successor, former President Muhammadu Buhari, expressed his intention to begin it and announced in 2016 that the project had been renegotiated downward by $800m Continued on page 5
KPMG: Monetary Tightening Policy Will Attract More FX Inflows, But Not Enough to Tame Inflation FDC: Nigeria’s surging prices to peak, begin moderate decline from second half of 2024 Suggests VAT should be raised to 10% to fund minimum wage hike Says Naira undervalued by 26.76% Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos KPMG, a global audit, tax and advisory services company, has posited that the recent decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to raise the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 24.75 per cent, could help attract more portfolio investments. However, the firm, in its ‘flashnotes’ tagged: “CBN’s Monetary Tightening: The Trade-off Dilemma”, stated that the decision although a step in the right direction, was not enough to tackle the country’s inflation. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the CBN raised the bank’s MPR to 24.75 per cent in March 2024, bringing it to its two-decades Continued on page 5
STRATEGIC MEETING OF GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR VACCINES WITH NORTHERN TRADITIONAL RULERS... L-R: Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Mohammad Ali Pate; Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar; and visiting Chief Executive Officer, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation ( GAVI) , Dr. Senator Sania Nishtar during a strategic meeting with Northern Traditional Rulers in Sokoto at the weekend