The Yobe State Executive Council, has approved N4.5 billion for equipping and furnishing the ongoing Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Complex at the state’s Teaching Hospital, Damaturu.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mohammad Gana, stated this while conducting journalists around the project site in Damaturu.
He said part of the fund would be used for procurement and installation of state-of-the-art laparoscopic machines, basic and advanced diagnostic as well as theatre equipment.
The commissioner said the project’s contract awarded in 2020 at the cost of N1.6 billion had reached 95 percent completion, adding that it would be put to use by December 2022.
According to Gana, the over 250 bed capacity facility has been designed with gynaecological and obstetrics clinics, emergency and admission units, an operating theatre, paediatrics ward as well as labour, delivery, and special baby care units, among others.
The commissioner said when completed, the complex, one of the largest in northern Nigeria, would address current maternal and child negative indices in Yobe and neighbouring states.
On manning the facility, Gana said the state government had continuously employed and absolved many doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and laboratory technicians.
He said that over 400 indigenous medical students had been sponsored by the state at various institutions across the country.
The commissioner said some of the aforementioned personnel and those to graduate from the teaching hospital would be engaged to effectively man the facility.
The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has commissioned the newly rehabilitated and equipped General Hospital, Tede, in the Atisbo Local Government Area of the state.
Governor Makinde, who made a commitment to personally enrol 1,250 residents of the town and its surrounding communities into the Oyo State Health Insurance Scheme (OYSHIA) for the next one year, explained that his administration remained committed to improving the health sector, which according to him, is a major service point agenda of his government.
The governor promised within a short time, to extend the Light up Oyo Project to Tede, in response to the request of the community, stating that he remained committed to providing an all inclusive governance that leaves no town or zone behind.
Makinde noted that in the area of security, his administration has been collaborating with federal security agencies to keep citizens safe and secure and would not relent, adding that on road infrastructure, his administration has also been engineering an infrastructure that connects all zones of the state and targets economic expansion agenda.
In his remarks, the Executive Secretary, Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA), Dr Sola Akande, explained the work done at the facility to include a general renovation and equipment with a modern theatre, upgraded laboratory, electronic delivery machine, borehole powered water supply system and a 20 KVA diesel generator backed with solar power.
He noted that so far, Governor Makinde had from his personal purse, pledged to enrol 2,750 lives into Oyo the State Health Insurance Scheme, urging local government chairmen and other political office holders to emulate the governor’s good gesture.
Akande disclosed that the General Hospital, Tede, dilapidated for over 15 years and worsened by torrential rainfall over a period of 10 years, had been brought back to life, noting that training and retraining would be continuous in ensuring that the personnel get a hold on the use of the equipment provided for the hospital.
On his part, the Chairman, Atisbo Local Government Area, Fasasi Adeagbo, commended the governor for bringing development to the state by renovating and equipping the hospital despite the economic hardship in the country, saying many people in Oke-Ogun would benefit from the hospital, as they would not have to travel to Ibadan for health care.
The Bauchi State Government says it has concluded arrangements to resuscitate 320 child nutrition centres to encourage breastfeeding and nutritional uptake of children.
The Executive Secretary, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Agency, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, stated this at a news conference in Bauchi as part of activities to mark the 2022 World Breastfeeding Week.
The 2022 Breastfeeding Week has its theme as “Step Up for Breastfeeding: Educate and Support had the state agency organise in collaboration with Alive & Thrive Nigeria, a Non-Governmental Organisation.
Mohammed said that the centres called, “Baby Friendly Corners,” across the 20 local government areas of the state would be rebranded with the support of development partners.
The executive secretary said the centres would create awareness on Good Winning Practices and train breastfeeding mothers on nutritional food processing through utilisation of local variety crops.
He said the agency, in collaboration with partners, had identified 25 communities with low infant nutritional uptake in the state.
According to him, the forum provided an opportunity for key actors at different levels in society to interact and share ideas on how to collaborate in bridging the existing gaps on breastfeeding in the communities.
He said the forum would galvanise stakeholders to step up breastfeeding, protect, promote, and support breastfeeding within their respective roles.
“Alive & Thrive is working closely with the Bauchi State Ministry of Health, the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency and other partners in accelerating the scale of maternal, infant, and young child nutrition in Bauchi and across Nigeria.
“Optimum nutrition which includes exclusive breastfeeding is an essential action that needs to be taken for infant development and survival,” Mohammed said.
The project focuses on maternal nutrition to save lives, prevent illness, and improve the health and wellbeing of mothers, children and adolescents.
Wrestling won its third gold medal through Miesinnei Genesis
Just before the end of Day 8, Team Nigeria recorded three more medals in Wrestling, Boxing, and Table Tennis.
Miesinnei Genesis clinched the gold medal in the Women’s Freestyle 50kg event after a victory over Canadian Madison Park.
Genesis had a 3-1 Victory by fall contest as she increased the gold medals won in Wrestling to three.
Ebikewenimo Welson clinched Silver in the Men’s Freestyle 57kg wrestling event. Welson suffered a defeat to Indian Kumar Ravi.
In Boxing, Cynthia Ogunsemilore also won bronze in the Women’s 57kg-60kg Lightweight after defeating Any Sara Broadhurst from Ireland.
Meanwhile, Table Tennis also recorded its first medal from Faith Obazuaye’s 3-1 victory over England’s Felicity Pickard in the Women’s category Classes 6-10 event.
Obazuaye, a para Table Tennis player, won the bronze by defeating Pickard 11-6, 7-11, 6-11, 8-11.
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From all indications, China is about to start sending goods into North Korea again, now a few months since they cut off trade because of Covid-19 as the North’s economy continues to struggle.
Citing traders based in the Chinese city of Dandong, Radio Free Asia says freight trains could start running as soon as Tuesday from Dandong to the North Korean city of Sinuiju.
RFA says it acquired a notice from the Dandong customs office to Chinese logistics companies saying they’ll soon start resuming inspections.
It’ll take time for companies to reroute their trucks, though, so they might not start going to North Korea again until late this month.
Aribo and Awoniyi lost on their EPL debuts in defeats away from home.
The trio of Super Eagles players-Joe Aribo, Taiwo Awoniyi, and Alex Iwobi suffered defeats with their respective clubs in the first game of the EPL season.
For Aribo and Awoniyi it was away defeats while Iwobi’s Everton suffered a slim home loss to Chelsea.
Everton lost 1-0 to Thomas Tuchel’s side via a Jorginho first half penalty, after Abdoulaye Doucoure fouled Ben Chilwell in the box.
Jorginho’s penalty was the Italian 20th goal in the Premier League with 18 of those goals scored from the penalty spot.
Aribo’s Southampton failed to consolidate an early goal scored by Captain James Ward Prowse as Tottenham Hotspur came back with four goals to kick off their season on a winning note.
Although Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son didn’t score for Antonio Conte’s side, their impacts were felt during the encounter.
Aribo started in the attacking role alongside Adam Armstrong in a 3-5-2 formation.
Saints opened the goalscoring in the 12th minute from a Ward-Prowse volley from a Moussa Djenepo cross. The lead lasted nine minutes before Ryan Sessegnon headed in a Dejan Kulusevski low cross.
Before the end of the first half, Eric Dier also doubled the lead from a Son assist in the 32nd minute.
Two more goals were scored in the 61st and 63rd minutes from Mohammed Salisu’s own goal and Kulusevski.
Similar fate for Awoniyi who began his EPL journey on the bench when Nottingham Forest suffered a two-nil defeat to Newcastle United.
Awoniyi had just 27 minutes of action as second half goals from Fabian Schar and Callum Wilson sent the newcomers home empty handed.
Elsewhere, the first game of the matchday was between Liverpool and newly promoted Fulham at Craven Cottage where both sides settled to a 2-2 draw.
Once again, Darwin Nunez proved a capable replacement for Sadio Mane with his input in Saturday’s game.
The Uruguayan scored and assisted to become the third player from the bench to do such on his Premier League debut after Sergio Aguero and Alvaro Morata.
The first half saw Fulham go in front from a 32nd minute header from Aleksandar Miltrovic.
It could only take Liverpool the help of Nunez in the 63rd minute for them to get an equaliser. Nunez pulled the ball past Tosin Adarabioyo and Marek Rodak in a sublime style from a Mohammed Salah assist.
Having stabilised the game, Liverpool conceded a penalty to end 51 EPL matches without a penalty from Virgil Van Djik’s tackle on Miltrovic.
The Fulham striker slotted home to put the Newcomers in front in the 72nd minute.
However, the lead lasted for eight minutes as Nunez returned the favour he received from Salah.
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Team Nigeria has moved up to the sixth spot on the overall medals table after a string of good results on Saturday.
Favour Ofili capped what was a wonderful day for Team Nigeria at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as he secured the silver medal in Women’s 200m on Saturday night at the Alexander Stadium.
The silver medal won by the 19-year-old was Team Nigeria’s last for the day as the country’s contingent raked in an amazing 14 medals on the penultimate day of action at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Ofili who could not feature in the 100m event having tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival from her base in the United States ensured she did well enough for a podium finish in the 200m and she may be making an appearance for the country’s 4x100m team on Sunday.
Favour Ofili wins the 200m silver
Ofili’s silver medal win is the second such medal Nigeria has won in the event after Mary Onyali who ran 22.35 seconds to place second behind Australia’s Cathy Freeman in 1994.
Nigeria’s record in the event now reads one gold after Blessing Okagbare’s 22.25 seconds blistering run eight years ago in Glasgow, Scotland and two silver medals.
In the other events concluded on Saturday, Team Nigeria’s Njideka Iyiazi and Ugochi Alam dominated the Women’s F56/57 Para Shot Put event where they won gold and bronze respectively.
Iyiazi won gold with a record throw of 10.03m, while Ugochi settled for the bronze medal with a decent throw of 9.38m.
In Boxing, Team Nigeria is yet to get its projection for at least a gold medal.
One of the country’s brightest gold medal prospects, Onyekwere Innocent could not make it to the final on Saturday. He settled for the bronze medal in the Super heavyweight 92+kg category
Cynthia Ogunsemilore also settled for the bronze medal after a 5-0 semi-final loss to Any Broadhurst of Northern Ireland.
Faith Obazuaye won the bronze in Para Table Tennis
The country’s hope for gold now rests on Esther Oshoba’s shoulders as she progressed to the final of the women’s over 54kg-57kg featherweight after a win over Tina Rahimi of Australia.
Oshoba battled to a 4-1 victory by split decision in the semi-final bout to edge closer to winning gold for Team Nigeria.
In wrestling, there was no gold medal on Saturday but two-time Commonwealth Games silver medallist, Ebikewenimo Welson, picked up the silver medal in the men’s freestyle 57kg category after losing to India’s Kumar Ravi in the final.
Hannah Reuben also won silver in the women’s wrestling 76kg category.
Ogbonna John won the bronze medal in the men’s freestyle 74kg; defeating Charlie Bowling of England in the bronze medal game.
Faith Obazuaye won Team Nigeria’s first tennis medal as she won the bronze medal in para table tennis.
Obazuaye defeated Felicity Pickard of England 3-1 to win bronze in the Women’s Para Table Tennis event.
Isau Ogunkunle also defeated Raj Alagar 3-0 to win another bronze for Nigeria in the men’s singles classes 3-5 Para Table event.
Ahead of the battle for the last set of medals in Birmingham on Sunday, Team Nigeria with 30 medals, 9 gold, 8 silver and 13 bronze medals, occupies the sixth spot on the overall medals table.
Team Nigeria in sixth is the highest ranked African country with South Africa and Kenya occupying the eighth and twelfth spots respectively.
Team Nigeria has secured yet another gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
On Sunday at the Alexander Stadium, the quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rose Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha emerged as winners of the 4x100m Women’s relay race.
The quartet set a new African Record of 42.10s to win what was Nigeria’s 11th gold medal in Birmingham and a historic Commonwealth Games medal.
Record-setting Tobi Amusan started the race for Nigeria and expertly handed over the baton to Favour Ofili who won the silver medal in the 200m event on Saturday.
Ofili handed over to Rose Chukwuma who handed the baton to the anchor leg runner Grace Nwokocha who did not disappoint to deliver the gold.
Earlier, the quartet of Udodi Onwuzurike, Favour Ashe, Alaba Akintola and Raymond Ekevwo also gave a good show to secure the bronze medal in the men’s 4x100m event won by the English team.
The Nigerian men finished in a time of 38.81s to make it to the podium.
With 11 gold medals already in the kitty, Nigeria has equalled her best-ever show at the Commonwealth Games and is on course to make it the best ever with at least two more gold medal possibilities.
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