Why Buhari Must Rejig NNPC’S Lopsided Management
AKTH Reopens Specialty Clinics Six Weeks After Shutdown
PAN Niger Delta Forum ( PANDEF) has called for holistic rejigging of the lopsided Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ( NNPC) management structure, and correct the imbalances.
PÀNDEF spokesperson, Ken Robinson, said the group welcomed the reconstitution of the board of the NNPC, by President Muhammadu Buhari with cautious considerations as the move could be considered mere scratching of the surface of the problem.
“The major concern of the Niger Delta region is the skewed composition of the Executive management of the NNPC, and appointment of chief executives of the corporation’s subsidiaries. It is simply abhorrent that the Group managing director, the chief finance officer, finance and account, the corporate secretary/ legal adviser to the corporation, and chief executives of virtually all strategic divisions and subsidiaries of the NNPC are persons from the northern zones of the country,” he said.
PANDEF urged Buhari, whose administration it had accused of marginalising the South- South geopolitical zone, to further carry out an overhaul of the lopsided NNPC management in the interest of equity, fairness, peace and national cohesion.
AMINU Kano Teaching Hospital ( AKTH) will resume clinical consultation of all specialty clinics tomorrow, six weeks after their suspension.
The teaching hospital shut down virtually all critical services, except emergency unit, dialysis and few others after 50 of its medical staff tested positive for COVID- 19 pandemic, while treating unsuspected carriers.
Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe, disclosed the planned reopening, while receiving donation of medical consumables and Personal Protective Equipment ( PPE) worth N16m by Kano based Concern Group.
Sheshe, who had announced the discharge of 40 AKTH doctors from isolation, having won the battle against the virus, noted that items donated would reduce acute shortage of consumables threatening service delivery to patients. While acknowledging that the state had witnessed many deaths in recent past, due to absence of proper health care services, he assured the donor the items would be judicious utilised.
A representative of the donor, Sani Umar, explained that the group found it necessary to contribute their widow’s mite to complement efforts and ease overstretched capacity of the hospital management. Umar, who regretted acute shortage of essential facilities needed at the hospital to protected medical staff, called for concerted supports for the hospital to enhance its services.