By DIANA CHUKWUKA ACROSS Nigeria’s federal ministries, departments and agencies, frustration is boiling over. What appeared at first to be minor salary discrepancies—deductions between ₦1,000 and ₦2,000 in October—has widened into a national outcry, with workers accusing the Federal Government of wage tampering masked as health reform. The controversy began when civil servants noticed unexplained […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH WITH October salaries, federal civil servants received an unexpected jolt: a deduction ranging from ₦1,000 to ₦2,000. For many, it was an unwelcome surprise in a season of rising living costs. For the Federal Government, however, it marked the quiet rollout of a major policy—mandatory contributions to the National Health Insurance […]
Dr. Richard Ajayi, entrepreneur and healthcare advocate, has warned that Nigeria’s healthcare system is on the brink of collapse unless urgent and bold structural reforms are implemented. Speaking in an interview on Sunday in Abuja, Ajayi lamented the country’s poor investment in health, noting that Nigeria allocates less than six per cent of its national […]