Nigeria To Employ Health Workers Over Japa

As part of efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the country, the federal government has set up a committee to look into the issue of accumulated waiver requests for employment of health workers in the various hospitals.

Minister of state for health, Dr. Tunji Alausa, made this known when he paid a familiarisation visit to the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan as part of his ongoing over-sight function visits to assess federal government-owned health institutions in the country.

In a statement signed by the ministry’s director of information, Patricia Deworitshe, Alausa said; “This is due to some bottle necks faced by our chief medical and medical directors in the process of getting waiver approvals. We reached out to the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Esan, who has been on top, working judiciously to get these approvals, but we just all decided that it will be easier if the waiver process starts from the ministry. So going forward from January, we are setting up a waiver committee at the ministry that will promptly review and address all waiver requests from all our hospitals.”

Assuring of accountability and transparency in the process, Alausa said each hospital would generate a request for the number of staff needed to the ministry, which would then go to the HOSF for some checks and balances under the establishment law to see what’s budgeted for the year.

“Once the ministry confirms that everything is verified, approval for the waiver will be sent to the budget office were the funds will be made available, there won’t be delays anymore”, the minister stated.

The chief medical director of UCH, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, highlighted some of the challenges faced as well as achievements which include specialised surgical procedures in partnership with some UK-based charities and other organisations as well as donations of equipment and infrastructure by well-meaning Nigerians.

NUPENG 'Public Goat' Comment On PTD in Good Faith

The National Union If petroleum and Natutal gas, NUPENG says it will always make case for all its affiliates, including the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD.

President of the union, William Akporeha in a statement said, NUPENG will not be cowed by some criminal elements trying to create issues where there is none.

NUPENG President said a comment credit to the General Secretary of the Union Afolabi Olawale, where he described  some persons as  'public goat's a television programme.

NUPENG President said the General Secretary of the Union was only trying to highlight the neglect of Tanker Drivers and their demands, and wonder why persons facing criminal charges would want to twist the truth.

Aporeha asked the general public to ignore sensational reports being peddled by a section of the media, in support of non-recognised group of persons, who are bent on demeaning the majority by  promoting untrue, concerted and manipulated stories, to gain public sympathy.

NUPENG says its relationship with the Augustine Egbon-led PTD leadership remains intact as it is the only recognised leadership with the  Trade Unions Secretariat at the Federal Ministry of Labout and Employment.

The most famous sayings of atheists and tyrants at the time of their death.

The most famous sayings of atheists and tyrants at the time of their death.

  1. César Borgia, Duke of Valentinois:

  “In my life, I was preparing for everything except death. Now I'm dying and I'm not ready to die.»

  2. Thomas Hobbes (English Philosopher):

  "I'm about to jump into the dark.  If I had owned the world right now, I would have gladly paid it for just a single day in my life.»

  3. Thomas Paine (18th century thinker and writer):

  "Please don't leave me alone.  God, what did I sow to deserve this?!!  If I had all of these and another like it, I would have used them to spare myself this torment.  Don't leave me alone, at least leave a child with me.  I am on the verge of hell, because I was Satan's client.  »

  4. Sir Thomas Scott:

  He was an English councilor who died in 1594. During his agony, he said, “Until the last moments, I never believed in the presence of God or that of Hell. But now I truly feel their presence, as I stand on the brink of punishment. It is divine justice. »

  5. Voltaire:

  He was a French atheist philosopher, who died in 1777. Addressing his doctor, he said: “God has abandoned me, as well as people. I give you half of my property if you extend my life by six months. I die and I will go to Hell.»

  6. Voltaire's nurse:

  "If they give me all the money in Europe, I wouldn't want to see an atheist man suffer like him.  He was screaming all night asking for forgiveness.  »

  7. David Hume:

  A Scottish atheist historian who died in 1776. He was seen in his agony crying, "Fire burns me with its flames." He was desperate to the point of pathos.

  8. Napoleon Bonaparte:

  The French Emperor, who killed millions to satisfy his paranoia and his passion to subjugate the world, said: Here I am dying before my time and returning to the bottom of the earth while I am the greatest Emperor. What a difference between the abyss where I fall and the eternal paradise!

  9. Sir Francis Newport:

  He was the Director of the British Atheists Club. During his agony, he said to those around his bed, "Tell me not that there is no God, for I am presently in His Presence and do not tell me that  there's no hell, because I feel like I'm sliding towards it. Shit!!!  Spare me your words, I'm lost.  It is hell, in which I had never have believed, even if I had lived a thousand years, and if millions of years pass, I could never get rid of its torments.  Oh !  Oh !  It's hell. »

  10. King Charles IX:

  He was a French,  Catholic king who killed tens of thousands of Protestant Christians in France in 1572, because of religious differences. During his agony, he told his doctors, “I see those I had killed. They pass in front of me, I see I was wrong and I am forever lost.»

  11. David Strauss:

  He was a German atheist theologian who died in 1874. During his death, he said: “My philosophy has disappointed me. I feel that I am between the jaws of a machine, equipped with teeth, which could crush me at any moment.»

  12. Joseph Stalin's daughter:

  In an interview with the American magazine News week, Svetlana Stalin, daughter of the communist dictator "Joseph Stalin" recounts the moment of her father's death, saying: his death was horrible. At the moment of his death, he suddenly opened his eyes, he threw a mad and grumpy look on all present. He pointed with his left hand at something hovering above us. It was a kind of threat. Then he died.

  13. Anton LaVey:

  He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the author of the Satanic Bible, who died in 1997. Before he died, he was screaming, saying, “What have I done. I made a big mistake!! and he asked for God's Grace and Forgiveness.

Life is an opportunity that will not be repeated. Today that we are alive,  are we making preparations for death? Or we are still indulging in our riotous living,  thinking that we will be here forever? Ponder on this and make  amends as we get into the new year. God bless you really good.

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