Shettima: Tinubu’s Ambitious Health Sector Reforms Have Attracted Over $4.8bn in Potential Investments Deji Elumoye
Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday announced that the health sector reforms by President Bola Tinubu’s administration had already attracted over $4.8 billion
in potential investments. According to him, the investments are part of the commitment of the Tinubu’s administration to revitalise Nigeria's healthcare system. Making this disclosure at the inauguration and grand opening
of Sahad Hospitals in Abuja, the vice president noted that the health sector reforms under the Tinubu administration were anchored on a robust roadmap designed to tackle persistent issues that had plagued the system for decades.
He said: "This administration’s ambitious health sector reforms, which have already attracted over $4.8 billion in potential investments, signal a strong commitment to revitalising our healthcare system. "These reforms are anchored on a
comprehensive roadmap designed to address longstanding challenges, and central to this are four key pillars: Transforming healthcare governance, improving population health outcomes, unlocking the healthcare value chain, and strengthening health
security." Shettima outlined a comprehensive strategy to address longstanding challenges and propel Nigeria's healthcare system into the future. Continued on page 5
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Matawalle, CDS, Service Chiefs to Storm Sokoto to Flush Out Bandits in North-west Ejiofor Alike
Outraged at the activities of terrorists and bandits ravaging Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, and Kebbi states,
the Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Muhammed Matawalle has directed the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, and other military chiefs to
move to Sokoto with him as part of an intensified effort by the federal government to rid the North-west of the menace of banditry, kidnapping and other forms of terrorism.
Before Matawalle’s directive, some residents of the affected states had taken their destiny into their own hands by mobilising against bandits and resorting to self-help.
While the residents of Matusgi in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State had overpowered and killed about 37 bandits, thousands of residents of Gobir in Sokoto State had also
stormed the forest in large numbers to rescue about 150 kidnapped compatriots and also recover the Continued on page 5
Wike Threatens PDP Govs Supporting Fubara, Vows to Instigate Crises in Their States Insists he’s leader of PDP in Rivers Warns Bauchi gov, others against interfering in state’s politics Fubara, supporters shun Wikebacked congress Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt Apparently miffed by the decision of the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to approach the party’s national leadership to hand over the party’s structure in Rivers State to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has threatened to instigate crisis in any state whose governor interferes with the politics of the state. The PDP governors had in a
communique issued after a recent meeting held in Jalingo, Taraba State capital, restated their support for Fubara in the political crisis in the state, promising to “engage the National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party to revisit the congress to correct the anomaly and allow His Excellency Governor Siminalayi Fubara to take his rightful leadership position of the party in the state.” Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum and Governor of Bauchi Continued on page 5
CULTURE OF SUPPORT… Lagos Orders Probe of Akwa State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (left), in a handshake with Mallam Yahaya Zakariyah Nafiu, a native of Ilorin, whose wife Ibom CP’s Death at LASUTH… Page 8 Kwara gave birth to undecaplets (11 children) in Benin Republic, during a brief visit to the Government House in Ilorin…recently