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Prof.
Eyitayo Lambo Health Minister |
FG approves N27.09bn for 774 health
centres
Stories from: KABIRU YUSUF, Abuja
BARELY, six years after supplying all the 774 local government
councils across the nation with police patrol Jeeps, the
Obasanjo administration has now awarded contract worth N27.090
billion for the construction of 774 comprehensive health
centres.
Minister of Information and Communication, Mr. Frank Nweke (jnr),
who revealed this yesterday to the State House Press Corps
shortly after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting,
explained that the project is going to be executed under the
public / private partnership.
Mr. Frank Nweke while stating that all local councils will be
represented by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON)
further said the federal government is going to fund the project
through the ministry of finance but deduct same from their
allocations directly.
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President Olusegun Obasanjo |
Voters
registration: Obasanjo declares Monday work-free for
federal workers
PPresident Olusegun Obasanjo has declared Monday January 29, 2007
a work-free day for all federal government employees in the
country to boost participation in the ongoing registration of
voters for this year’s general elections.
President Obasanjo also called on all state governors to
similarly declare work-free periods or days in their states to
enable all those who have not yet registered for the elections
to do so before the end of the exercise.
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Vice
President Atiku Abubakar |
‘Atiku spends no kobo meant for North’
The Atiku Campaign Organisation has debunked the allegation
leved against the Vice president that he converted the money
meant for the development of the North to the consruction of
ABTI University saying that this is nothing but renewed efforts
of the presidency to distract Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s
presidential campaign with frivolous and baseless allegations.
The presidency’s spokesperson, Uba Sani, was quoted to have said
that the vice president “impoverished the North by diverting
funds meant for its development to build his ABTI empire.”
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Sani-Lulu Abdullahi
NFA Chairman |
Singabele blasts Lulu
THE Nigeria Football Association has lampooned executive
committee member Dr Peter Singabele for the press conference he
called in Lagos on Tuesday, hotsportslive.com reports.
The member from the south-south zone had told the press that he
and a couple of board members had been left out of
decision-making in the NFA and felt bad about Sani-Lulu
Abdullahi's 'autocracy'.
But the association, responding immediately, said Singabele's
action was in bad taste since the statutes say the executive
committee must meet at least four times a year and the first
meeting for the year was due for Saturday this week in Abuja.
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