SAT visits Vice Chairman, Baale @Ifelodun LCDA, strengthen health facilities - ITREALMS

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The Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) of the AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) Malaria (ATM) Networks, has paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chairman Ifelodun Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Hon. Adetoun Bolanle to intimate on the activities of the organisation to strengthen the primary health centres, reports ITREALMS.

The ATM team lead, Mrs Ifelunwa Aipoh emphasized the need to briefed the vice chairman who also is the Supervisory Councilor for Health on the organisations activities in the communities which is aimed in identifying issues at the health care centres by the Community Based Organisations (CBOs), reaching out to stakeholders in the community to resolve such, while the unreserved issues are escalated to the local government or to the state for appropriate intervention.

Lagos SAT urges community stakeholders to be involved in improving health facilities - ITREALMS

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The Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) has urged community stakeholders, especially philanthropists, to be more involved in contributing to various health facilities within their domains, reports ITREALMS.

Also, it would support government's effort and ensure proper health care delivery to the people.

Poor treatment of Dangote: Host communities threatens to seal pipeline facilities - ITREALMS

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The Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), over the weekend, threatened to renew agitation for greater autonomy and control of their natural resources, if the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the International Oil Companies (IOCs) fail to sell and supply crude oil to Dangote Refinery and other local Refineries, in their bid to ensure that Nigeria becomes self-sufficient in local production of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and diesel.

The Group, comprising all the states producing oil and gas in Nigeria, lamented that despite the billions of dollars spent on turnaround maintenance of Nigeria's refineries, the country remains reliant on importing refined products.

Malawi offers free internet @public facilities - ITREALMS

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The government of Malawi has commenced roll-out of scheme to provide free internet access in all public facilities in the country, under Digital Malawi Programme, reports ITREALMS.

The Deutsche Welle also reported that in the city of Blantyre in southern Malawi, the lack of universal internet access created long-standing issues that could be felt everywhere, including in schools: Accessing teaching and learning materials online was a major struggle for learners at public schools.

SAT solicits more government intervention in health facilities - ITREALMS

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The Lagos State Advocacy Team has solicited for more government intervention in the primary health care facility to ease people's welfare, reports ITREALMS.

The State Coordinator on Tuberculosis Network, Mrs Ifelunwa Aipoh made this call during the advocacy visits to Supervisory councillor of health in Alimosho LGA, Honourable Abolade AbdulRasheed.

NCDMB boosts Odukpan's industrial park with state-of-the-art ICT facilities

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The Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has equipped its first oil and gas industrial park at Odukpan in Cross River State, with the state-of-the-art Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) facilities to boost adaptation, reports ITREALMS.

Disclosing this on Thursday, the General Manager, Corporate Communication and Zonal Coordination Division at NCDMB, Dr. Ginah O. Ginah, during a media tour of the park in Odukpani, Cross River State, noted that all needed facilities for investors to thrive in the park environment have been provided, especially for manufacturers.

INEC records 3rd attacks on facilities in Imo State - ITREALMS

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recorded the third attack on its facilities in Imo State in one month, reports ITREALMS.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Imo State, Professor Sylvia Uchenna Agu, was quoted as reported that the third in the series as the State Headquarters office in Owerri that got attacked by unknown gunmen.

SAT calls for improved handling of HIV-AIDS, TB, malaria @Lagos facilities - ITREALMS

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The Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) of coalition of civil societies in the health sector has called for improved health system especially at the community levels in handling ailments related to AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM), reports ITREALMS.

The ATM coalition includes the Association of Civil Societies on Malaria, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN), TB Network, Network of Persons With HIV-AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN). 

Speaking at the advocacy visits on Tuesday, the Team Lead, Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) Mrs. Bunmi Tejumola, said improving quality of lives in communities across the state of excellence in particular after the COVID-19 effect has become necessary.

Why Bayelsa approved N10bn to upgrade school facilities

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The government of Bayelsa State has explained why it gave approval of N10 billion for the upgrading of school facilities, reports ITRealms.

Speaking to stakeholders in civil service administration in Yenagoa who endorsed a number of reforms aimed at restructuring the public service for effective delivery, the Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson said the state is working at checking the syndrome of ghost workers and other unwholesome practices.

He described as unacceptable, the age long sharp practices in the state civil service, adding that the said payment of over N4 billion monthly wage bill could no longer be sustained.

Dickson said that it has impacted negatively on the developmental agenda of the restoration government.

According to him, the meeting was convened to intimate the stakeholders of the financial position of the state and chart a way forward in view of the prevailing economic situation.

Some of the reforms as highlighted by the governor and endorsed by the stakeholders in attendance include; approval of N200 million monthly subvention to the state owned Niger Delta University.

He stressed that only subventions would be given to tertiary institutions as against the old practice of monthly payment of salary.

Also the state government gave approval of N10 billion for the purpose of upgrading facilities in all its tertiary institutions across the state and also instituted a special Education Safety Corps to ensure the safety of its schools.

The governor urged all tertiary institutions to key into government’s vision of adopting a single accounting system to check fraud, stressing that education levy would be introduced for all workers in the state to fund activities in the sector.

According to Governor Dickson, as part of the reforms, the state civil service commission will be reconstituted just as government did to that of the local government service commission.

He stressed that further steps would be taken to re-organize the state’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies pointing out that staff with requisite qualifications and skills would be redeployed to relevant ministries and institutions.

Also, the state government has created a N10 billion Enterpreneur Development Fund to empower people that may voluntarily opt out of the civil service arising from the re-organization of the service.

The Governor announced that henceforth, the State Environmental Sanitation Authority would be taken out of the mainstream of the civil service, stating that only a few and relevant staff would be deployed on secondment to the authority .   

To tackle the problems of absenteeism, and ghost workers syndrome, attendance registers have been introduced in all the MDAs which would be properly monitored by special teams.  

 The meeting had in attendance, the traditional rulers, captains of Industry, members of the State House of Assembly, top government functionaries, local government chairmen to mention but few.

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ISON to set up ultramodern facilities in four cities

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The Global Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), ISON, a business process outsourcing, Pravin Kumar, has said the company plans to establish four state-of the-art facilities in Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ilorin, and Kano, reports ITRealms.

ISON BPO, he said, has excellent Call Centre facilities around the globe including the one in Ibadan and plans to replicate same standards all over Nigeria with plans to deploy an additional $20 million about N3.97billion investment with about 4,000 workers to be engaged in Nigeria before end of this year.

The CEO while speaking Tuesday in Lagos at ProTea Hotel during a press conference said ISON, which has about 7,000 employees across 12 countries, in which 4,500 are in 10 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa, noted that in Nigeria,they have about 1,300 workers since it commenced operation in Nigeria in 2011 of which 99 per cent of the workers are Nigerians, adding that Airtel and AIICO are the company’s key clients in the country.

He also stated that the company targets to employ about 25,000 workers in Nigeria in the next four years, ITRealms reports.

Mr. Kumar also said the company’s business expansion activities in Nigeria, is focusing in the call centre segment of the telecommunication sector.

He itemized infrastructure like power, good roads, location, language and security among others as ISON’s primary considerations in the establishment of offices in the cities, adding that ISON BPO has presence in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda with plans to add nine more centres with additional 5000 employees in the region. 

ITRealms gathered that Mr. Kumar,an industry veteran with over 35 years of experience is credited with the creation of three large business empires in the BPO, is regarded as a pioneer in call center services.

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