Speaker of the House of Representatives, YAKUBU DOGARA, has decried the high rate of foreign medical trips by Nigerians, calling for a total overhaul of the health sector to allow for efficiency.

 

DOGARA was speaking at a public hearing organised by the House Committee on Health on two bills at the National Assembly.

 

DOGARA said the high number of Nigerians who go on foreign medical trips and the attendant brain drain are indications that the health sector requires a serious surgical operation.

 

 

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI is in Maiduguri, Borno state on a working visitwhere he has inaugurated various projects executed by the Borno Government in Maiduguri metropolis such as Borno State University; Maiduguri Industrial hub, schools, roads and re-modeled Maiduguri Specialist Hospital.

 

Hundreds of Maiduguri residents were on the streets to welcome the president, as Borno Government declared today public holiday to enable residents welcome the president.

 

According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA, at the end of the visit, President BUHARI will be proceeding to the United Kingdom on a private visit.

 

He is expected to return to Nigeria on the 5^th of May.

Sudan’s military rulers have arrested two brothers of deposed President, OMAR AL-BASHIR, as hundreds of people marched in the capital, Khartoum, calling for a swift handover of power to civilian leadership.

 

Spokesman for the transitional military council, SHAMS AL-DIN KABASHI said that ABDULLAH AL-BASHIR and ALABAS AL-BASHIR were taken into custody as part of a continuing campaign of arrests against “symbols and leaders of the previous regime”.

 

The announcement came as sources said Sudanese authorities have transferred AL-BASHIR from “house-arrest” to the Kobar prison in northern Khartoum.

 The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22, public holidays to mark the 2019 Easter celebration.

 

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs. GEORGINA EHURIAH, announced the holiday in a statement quoting the minister in Abuja.

 

The Minister of Interior, Lt.- Gen. ABDULRAHMAN DAMBAZAU (Rtd), who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, enjoined all Christians to emulate the exemplary attributes of Jesus Christ, among which are tolerance, love and peaceful co-existence.