Honeywell Group has said there is no judgment against it and three other companies alleged by Ecobank to have been ordered to pay some outstanding debts by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The group said this recently in a statement that no judgment of monetary award has been delivered, making the four companies liable to Ecobank. Ecobank, through its solicitors Kunle Ogunba & Associates, had on Friday, July 7, 2023, claimed the four entities owe the bank the sum of N13.5 billion as of January 31, 2023. It stated this in a letter to the CEO of First Bank of…
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The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has called on the Federal Government to probe allegations of corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, of the Federal Health Institutions. In a communique of the 96th annual national conference of the PSN, titled, ‘Jewel City 2023,’ it also raised alarm over the unregistered two million drug sellers in the country. Signed by the President of PSN, Prof. Cyril Usifoh, and its National Secretary, Garfa Madehin, the communique reads: “The conference called for the probe of corruption against some of the CEOs of the FHIs, whom empirical data confirms,…
The House of Representatives Committee on Health has made known it plans to reverse medical tourism by revamping the healthcare system in the country. Chairman, House Committee on Health, Dr. Amos Magaji, lamented that the country’s health system was in a precarious situation. The lawmaker, however, noted that his House colleagues in collaboration with other stakeholders would do all they can to stop the surging migration of health workers abroad. Magaji stated this on Tuesday, November 28, during the committee oversight visit to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos State. The health committee chairman expressed concern that the…
Ekiti State government has directed Hospitals in the state to receive victims of gunshots for immediate treatment without obtaining a police report. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr Oyebanji Filani, announced this in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, on Monday, October 30. The statement read that the directive followed the order of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, on the treatment of gunshot victims. This, it stated, is in compliance with the provisions of the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act of 2017. The statement, titled, ‘Approval of Compulsory Treatment…
The Federal Government on Tuesday, October 24, introduced the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, HPV, into the routine immunization system. The vaccination targets more than seven million girls, which is the largest number in a single round of HPV vaccination in the African region. Girls aged nine to 14 years will receive a single dose of the vaccine, which is highly efficacious in preventing infection with HPV types 16 and 18 that are known to cause at least 70 percent of cervical cancers. Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in Nigeria and the second most frequent cause of cancer deaths…
The government of Lagos State has closed down a private hospital at Ago-Okota in the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of the state after it said the hospital transfuses unsafe blood to patients. Executive secretary of the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service, LSBTS, Bodunrin Osikomaiya, said the hospital was shut down in collaboration with the state Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA. According to Osikomaiya, the hospital was found to have collected unlabeled and unscreened blood, describing the act as unprofessional medical practice. She said the act contradicts the blood transfusion service law, adding that the health facility had put…
The Federal Government has approved the appointment of doctors, nurses, and other clinical healthcare workers as contract staff after attaining their compulsory retirement age or years. However, the government disclosed that the appointed contract staff would be on the same salary scale level that they retired on if they desired and deserved it. The Federal Ministry of Health in a circular dated October 5, 2023, directed the Chief Executive Agencies, Chief Medical Directors, Medical Directors, and Heads of Regulatory Bodies and Schools to ensure compliance with the circular earlier issued by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service…
Lagos State House of Assembly has constituted an ad-hoc committee to investigate the alleged missing small intestines of one 12-year-old boy, Adebola Akin-Bright, hospitalized at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH. The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, inaugurated the committee during the plenary on Monday, September 4, 2023. The mother of the boy who identified herself as Deborah Abiodun had called on Nigerians and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to intervene in the health issue of her son. Abiodun stated that her son had earlier undergone surgery after he was diagnosed with a ruptured appendix at a private…
The New York Police Department, NYPD, in the United States, on Monday, September 25, 2023, sworn in the first Black female police surgeon, Dr. Lynn O’Connor. “This is incredibly meaningful to me,” O’Connor said prior to her swearing-in ceremony. “If you would have told me at 10 years of age that I’d be sitting here speaking with you, and soon to be sworn in as the first Black female police surgeon for the NYPD, I wouldn’t believe it.” In her new role at the NYPD, she will determine officers’ fitness for duty, treat injured members and provide them with consultations.…
The Chairman, Medical Guild, Dr Sa’eid Ahmad, has disclosed that findings of the investigative panel on the cause of death of Lagos doctor, Diaso Vwaere revealed that the installation of the malfunctioned elevator that claimed Vwaere’s life was carried out by a non-certified contractor. The Street Journal reported that Vwaere, a medical house officer, died due to sustained injuries when an elevator conveying her crashed in the staff quarters of the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos. Ahmad said the elevator failed to work during its inauguration in June 2021 as he made the revelation during a news conference to give an…