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As part of its efforts to achieve universal health coverage, the Kogi State Government said it has so far enrolled 167,000 persons in its health insurance scheme. The Executive Secretary of the state Health Insurance Agency, Adekunle Aledare, disclosed this on Monday in Lokoja, the state capital, shortly after defending the agency’s 2025 budget. He
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The Senate has called for a national summit after briefings with President Bola Tinubu in an attempt to resolve the syndrome of out-of-school-children in Nigeria. This resolution was taken during plenary after the submission of the report of the Committee on Education (Basic & Secondary) on the compelling need to tackle the challenge of out-of-school-children
Senate seeks national summit over out-of-school-children
The Senate has called for a national summit after briefings with President Bola Tinubu in an attempt to resolve the syndrome of out-of-school-children in Nigeria.
This resolution was taken during plenary after the submission of the report of the Committee on Education (Basic & Secondary) on the compelling need to tackle the challenge of out-of-school-children in the country.
The chairman of the committee, Senator Usman Lawal Adamu (Kaduna Central) disclosed that over two million out-of-school-children have been enrolled in the last one year through the collective efforts of the agencies of the ministry working on out-of-school-children education.
In a debate by more than 20 lawmakers, the out-of-school-children menace was identified as a time bomb, demanding solutions that transcends that of the Federal Government alone.
While some lawmakers demanded a proper handshake between the national and sub-nationals, particularly on the issue of access of the UBEC funds, others raised the idea that significant funds from the 2025 budget be allocated for the sole purpose of tackling the out-of-school challenge.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said out-of-school-children have become potential bandits, exacerbating the need to curb the crisis.
The Senate unanimously adopted the resolution for a national summit.
Three activists arraigned by the Nigeria Police for their alleged participation in the #EndBadGovernance protests, namely Adaramoye Michael “Lenin”, Mosiu Sodiq, and Simon Opaluwa, have regained freedom, following the fulfilment of bail conditions set by the Federal High Court in Abuja. The trio were arrested in August, during the August 1-10 protests, in which young
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Three activists arraigned by the Nigeria Police for their alleged participation in the #EndBadGovernance protests, namely Adaramoye Michael “Lenin”, Mosiu Sodiq, and Simon Opaluwa, have regained freedom, following the fulfilment of bail conditions set by the Federal High Court in Abuja. The trio were arrested in August, during the August 1-10 protests, in which young
Immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is still on the run 107 days after being declared wanted by…
