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  • Details about the prestigious London clinic Buhari passed on

    Following the de@th of Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari, The London Clinic has come under public scrutiny, raising questions about its status as one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious private hospitals.

    Recall that Buhari passed away on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at the Harley Street-based hospital after reportedly suffering a relapse just hours before his anticipated discharge.

    According to Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura, the former President was in high spirits on the eve of his death and was being prepared for discharge when his health suddenly deteriorated.

    “I left him about 9 pm on Saturday in high spirits and promised to see him on Sunday afternoon. He was looking forward to his doctor’s visit on Sunday morning. But around midday, he started having breathing challenges and doctors rushed to his side to try and manage it. But unfortunately, around 4.30 pm, he gave up the ghost,” Daura told ThisDay.

    discretion, luxury, and top-tier medical attention are guaranteed.

    “It is the best and largest private clinic in the United Kingdom. It deals with surgery, robotic surgery, ENT surgery, plastic surgery, and the best in specialised services,” she said.

    She added that the hospital is equipped with advanced da Vinci Xi, ExcelsiusGPS, and NAVIO robotic surgical technology, a 3 T Siemens MRI, multiple CT scanners, a PET-CT, ultrasound, digital mammography, and other cutting-edge diagnostic systems.

    In terms of staffing and expertise, the doctor said, “The clinic boasts an impressive roster of professionals with renowned specialist consultants, many of whom are Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons and hold additional high-level certifications.”

    However, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health, seen by Saturday Punch, the cost of a bed space at the general ward is around £586.59 per bed day.

    “These costs may not include other potential fees or charges associated with your specific treatment plan,” the report noted.

    According to the hospital’s website, its ICU boasts a Standard Mortality Rate of 0.7, one of the best in the UK, and has consistently maintained low de@th rates.

    The hospital wrote, “Our Standard Mortality Rate averages around 0.7, which the Critical Care Peer Review states ‘would put the unit in the top 10% of the country’ and has consistently maintained low de@th rates, all of which are reviewed at Mortality and Morbidity Meetings within the clinic.

    “Patient Experience feedback continues to demonstrate 95-100% satisfaction with their treatment across the MDT with numerous comments and compliments mentioning excellence in staff attitude, caring, compassionate, along with recognition of speciality surgical support and rehabilitation.

    Thisday/Punch

  • Sad! Unidentified armed men storm clinic ICU shoot dead criminal on parole

    Sad! Unidentified armed men storm clinic ICU shoot dead criminal on parole

    Unidentified armed assailants stormed the intensive care unit (ICU) of Paras Hospital in Bihar’s Patna, India, and shot a prisoner.

    CCTV footage now confirms that five attackers entered the ICU this morning, Thursday, July 17, 2025, and opened fire on the inmate, identified as Chandan Mishra.

    23-year-old Chandan Mishra, a notorious criminal with dozens of murd£r charges against him, was out on parole for medical reasons and had been admitted to Paras Hospital.

    Despite being under medical care, he became the target of a brazen attack.

    CCTV footage released by police shows five men, with guns hidden, walking down the hospital corridor before the man leading the group reaches into his jeans to bring out a gun. The other men behind him also bring out their guns as the man leading opens the door to the room the sick criminal is in.

    The men are then seen firing shots at the victim after which they exit the room one after the other and flee the way they came.

    Others in the hospital can be seen opening their doors to find out what was going on as the gunmen fled after the attack.

    It is not clear why Chandan Mishra, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, was attacked but there are suspicions it may be linked to gang wars. Earlier, while in Bhagalpur jail, he had a dispute with a criminal named Sheru.

    According to Patna SSP Kartikay Sharma, preliminary investigation suggests the attack was carried out by members of a rival gang, believed to be the Chandan Sheru gang.

    “Chandan was earlier transferred from Buxar to Bhagalpur jail and was temporarily released for treatment. We suspect the rival gang is behind this targeted shooting,” he said.

    Police are now working with Buxar authorities to identify the attackers, whose photographs have been captured on hospital CCTV.

    Police initially said Chandan Mishra was undergoing treatment following the attack.

    However, he later succumbed to his injuries.

  • Sexual Assault: Fayemi inaugurates clinic for victims

    Sexual Assault: Fayemi inaugurates clinic for victims

    Wife of Ekiti Governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi on Thursday, inaugurated more sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC) to victims of sexual assault.

    Inaugurating the centres in Ikole-Ekiti and Ikere-Ekiti, Fayemi emphasised the need for community dwellers to expose violators of sexual assault laws no matter how highly placed.

    She reiterated zero tolerance for Gender-Based Violence, (GBV) most especially sexual assault, with the assurance that anyone found culpable would not be spared.

    Mrs Fayemi explained that the centres were established to offer free services for survivors in the area of medical assistance, legal, psychological, law enforcement, among others.

    In their remarks, the Commissioner for Health and Human services, Dr Oyebanji Filani and his counterpart in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology , Dr Adebimpe Aderiye, thanked the governor’s wife for her support for victims.

    They that the centres would serve the North and South senatorial districts where they were located, noting that traumatised students are adequately provided for in the arrangement of the facilities.

    Also, the State Coordinator, Sexual Assault Referal centres, Mrs Rita ilevbare, charged staff of the two centres to see their duties as a call to national service which required due diligence, empathy, utmost confidentiality and at times personal financial cost.

    She appealed to security agencies to support the functionalities of the centres to achieve success.

    Newsmen reports that apart from, Moremi referral centre at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, (EKSUTH) , Ado-Ekiti, the newly inaugurated centres were located within the premises of the specialist hospitals in the towns.

    Dignitaries at the inauguration include, Deputy Governor-elect, Chief Monisade Afuye, Wife of Ekiti Governor-elect, Dr Olayemi Oyebanji, among others.

  • Celebrity stylist, Toyin Lawani cancels butt enlargement procedure

    Popular celebrity stylist, Toyin Lawani has canceled her booked and paid for butt enlargement procedure.

     

    She took to her Instagram page to make this announcement on Thursday, June 2, following news that a young lady passed away at a clinic in Lagos from a botched plastic surgery.

     

    The mother of three stated that she will no longer undergo the surgery because she’s scared and will manage the butt God gave to her.

    According to the fashion mogul, the breast surgery and liposuction she has done in the past is enough for her.

     

    Toyin wrote: “Good morning y’all. I finally changed my mind , will manage the one the lord gave me , to think I have paid , everything is just scaring me , the breast / lipo on stomach I have do is ok ?‍♀️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
    People are dying ?‍♀️

    “Pls if you want to do any surgery go abroad. Every surgery has huge risk , but then again ,
    Dont go and carry yansh and give dentist o ?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️
    #kingofallQueens ?”

    Toyin
    Toyin Lawani

     

    A while ago, Toyin revealed that one of the wigs she rocked for her 39th birthday photoshoot cost 4 million naira.

     

    According to the fashion entrepreneur, the wig is a combination of 7 others to give it the full wig-view , which was inspired by American rapper, Cardi B.

     

    Toyin, who shared a video that captured the making of the wig, wrote: “GOT INSPIRED BY @iamcardib with the hair , This hair cost 4m.. They had to create 7 Full heads of hair into this craft ??? Quality top notch Human Hair , Jezzee the bounce lason ??????”.

     

    She is a proud owner of over 33 businesses under the name Tiannah empire, and she is unapologetic about that.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that the celebrity stylist had publicly called out actress and former billionaire wife, Caroline Danjuma for wrecking her marriage.

     

    Toyin was previously married to Aremo, who she had her first child, Tiannah with.

     

    Taking to her Twitter page, Toyin accused Carolina of not only ruining her marriage but also sleeping with her ex.

     

    She claimed Caroline was the reason why her ex threw her out of his house and beat her to a pulp.

     

  • Reps query AuGF for spending N1.9m on empty staff clinic

    Reps query AuGF for spending N1.9m on empty staff clinic

     

    …say you’re guilty of reckless expenditures during Lockdown

    …demands explanation for bogus training expenses, international travels, welfare packages

    By Emman Ovuakporie

    The House of Representatives on Wednesday accused the office of the Auditor General to the Federation (oAuGF) of spending N1.9million on an empty staff clinic.

    The lawmakers in session also queried the reckless expenditure observed in its financial records from the approved budgetary allocation for 2019 to 2021.

    The House also asked the nation’s financial police of unwarranted spending even in the face of the crippling covid-19 lock down in 2020.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports the resolution was passed during an oversight function to the oAuGF headquarters in Abuja, where chairman and members of the House Public Accounts Committee, led by Hon. Wole Oke, who picked holes in the financial reports without vouchers and other supporting documents.

    Some of the subheads queried by the lawmakers include: N1.9 million allegedly spent on new clinic and additional sum of N3.967 million spent on drugs and medical supplies as well as N7.721 million spent on medical consulting despite payment of N55.933 million as NHIS contribution as contained in the 2020 financial statement against N87.870 million NHIS contribution paid in 2019.

    The oversight which transmuted into a regular legislative session for the committee also saw the lawmakers demanding for the staff nominal roll of the office of the Auditor General for the Federation over increase in the N1.977 billion personnel cost for 2019 to N1.991 billion was appropriated in 2020, despite the depleting workforce and the request for 500 new staff.

    However, a visit to the clinic which is located on the first floor of the Audit House, revealed that there were only two female nurses dressed in mufti and a medium oxygen cylinder beside a single and the only bed in the supposed health facility.

    According to the documents presented to the Committee, out of total sum of N984.231 million budget appropriated in 2019, the sum of N969.487 million was released for which training got a larger chunk of the released fund.

    The lawmakers however queried the sums of N120,304,830 spent on international travels & transport (audit of foreign mission, consular offices & 20 defence attaches); N40,710,380 spent on local travels & Transport (training), additional N286,881,055.18 on local travels & transport, others (hqtrs/State branch office and additional N100,093,600 spent on local travels as well as N35,710,812 spent on Auditors-General annual conference without specifying the location and vouchers; N3.527,267 spent on sporting activities; N11,946,250 spent on welfare packages without specifying beneficiaries and vouchers; N59 million spent on Governance/Institutional reforms as well as beneficiaries of N696,500 spent on honourarium and sitting allowances and N62.768 million spent on office stationaries/computer consumables for the period under review.

    In the same vein, the oAuGF spent N28,850,080 on purchase of
    unspecified number of desktops and laptops computers as well as the sum of N49,999,616.88 without any payment vouchers.

    During the investigative hearing, the lawmakers also queried the total sum of N1.358 billion Appropriated for overheads in 2020 out of which N1.324 billion was released and spent despite the economic lockdown at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing them to lament that larger chunk of the fund was expended on training/local travels and transportation, while subheads on office rehabilitation and maintenance were duplicated in the capital component of the 2020 financial records made available to the Committee during the oversight function.

    However, the Auditor General who bragged about his exploits in auditing international organizations such as the African Union could not tender any prove to justify the bogus expenses recorded in the agency’s books.

    Other controversial subheads queried by the lawmakers include: N32.628 million spent on local travels and transport; additional N331.455 million on local travels & transport, others (Hqtrs & States), N25.004 million on international travels & transport; N188.762 million spent on international travels & transport (audit of foreign mission, consular offices and 20 Attaches) and additional N961.441 million on local training; N21.051 million spent on office stationaries/computer consumables; N3.967 million spent on drugs and medical supplies;N96.274 million spent on maintenance of office building (Lagos & state offices), additional N4.395 million on maintenance of office furniture and N16.830 million on maintenance of office/IT equipment; N4.002 million on other maintenance, N77.284 million on welfare packages,N8.423 million on sporting activities, N6.780 million on honourarium & sitting allowances, N7.721 million spent on medical consulting despite payment of N55.933 million as NHIS contribution; N14.542 million spent on Governance/Institutional reforms; N10.590 million spent on purchase of desktops & laptops computers; N72.555 million spent on insurance premium; N6.194 million spent on refreshment & meals; N24.016 million spent on monitoring/evaluation, among others.

     

    Reacting to the development, Hon. Omowumi Ogunlola from Ekiti State said: “We have a document prepared for us which is pre-emptive. We don’t have any evidence or proof of how the money here is being expended. We at the Public Account Committee have always insisted that MDAs come in with evidence of their expenditure. Is it because this is Auditor General’s office that they will just give to us these documents for us to see without any evidence of how the budget given to them is being expended?”

    “Secondly, this is the office of the Auditor General for the Federation. You audit all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Who audit this office? Which office is saddled with that responsibility of checkmating this office?

    “We are not auditing them, but oversight them. So, who calls to order the recklessness of the financial spending of this office?”, the lawmaker queried.

    While stressing the need for the oAuGF to provide all supporting documents for all the expenditures incurred by the Organisation since 2019 to date, committee chairman, Hon. Oluwole Oke demanded for relevant documents for the N72.555 million spent on insurance premium in 2020.

    The Committee, following the encounter issued a 7-day ultimatum for the office to submit documentary evidence of all expenditures for the three years under review.

  • Reps query AuGF for spending N1.9m on empty staff clinic

    Reps query AuGF for spending N1.9m on empty staff clinic

    …say you’re guilty of reckless expenditures during Lockdown

    …demands explanation for bogus training expenses, international travels, welfare packages

     

    The House of Representatives on Wednesday accused the office of the Auditor General to the Federation (oAuGF) of spending N1.9million on an empty staff clinic.

    The lawmakers in session also queried the reckless expenditure observed in its financial records from the approved budgetary allocation for 2019 to 2021.

    The House also asked the nation’s financial police of unwarranted spending even in the face of the crippling covid-19 lock down in 2020.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports the resolution was passed during an oversight function to the oAuGF headquarters in Abuja, where chairman and members of the House Public Accounts Committee, led by Hon. Wole Oke, who picked holes in the financial reports without vouchers and other supporting documents.

    Some of the subheads queried by the lawmakers include: N1.9 million allegedly spent on new clinic and additional sum of N3.967 million spent on drugs and medical supplies as well as N7.721 million spent on medical consulting despite payment of N55.933 million as NHIS contribution as contained in the 2020 financial statement against N87.870 million NHIS contribution paid in 2019.

    The oversight which transmuted into a regular legislative session for the committee also saw the lawmakers demanding for the staff nominal roll of the office of the Auditor General for the Federation over increase in the N1.977 billion personnel cost for 2019 to N1.991 billion was appropriated in 2020, despite the depleting workforce and the request for 500 new staff.

    However, a visit to the clinic which is located on the first floor of the Audit House, revealed that there were only two female nurses dressed in mufti and a medium oxygen cylinder beside a single and the only bed in the supposed health facility.

    According to the documents presented to the Committee, out of total sum of N984.231 million budget appropriated in 2019, the sum of N969.487 million was released for which training got a larger chunk of the released fund.

    The lawmakers however queried the sums of N120,304,830 spent on international travels & transport (audit of foreign mission, consular offices & 20 defence attaches); N40,710,380 spent on local travels & Transport (training), additional N286,881,055.18 on local travels & transport, others (hqtrs/State branch office and additional N100,093,600 spent on local travels as well as N35,710,812 spent on Auditors-General annual conference without specifying the location and vouchers; N3.527,267 spent on sporting activities; N11,946,250 spent on welfare packages without specifying beneficiaries and vouchers; N59 million spent on Governance/Institutional reforms as well as beneficiaries of N696,500 spent on honourarium and sitting allowances and N62.768 million spent on office stationaries/computer consumables for the period under review.

    In the same vein, the oAuGF spent N28,850,080 on purchase of
    unspecified number of desktops and laptops computers as well as the sum of N49,999,616.88 without any payment vouchers.

    During the investigative hearing, the lawmakers also queried the total sum of N1.358 billion Appropriated for overheads in 2020 out of which N1.324 billion was released and spent despite the economic lockdown at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing them to lament that larger chunk of the fund was expended on training/local travels and transportation, while subheads on office rehabilitation and maintenance were duplicated in the capital component of the 2020 financial records made available to the Committee during the oversight function.

    However, the Auditor General who bragged about his exploits in auditing international organizations such as the African Union could not tender any prove to justify the bogus expenses recorded in the agency’s books.

    Other controversial subheads queried by the lawmakers include: N32.628 million spent on local travels and transport; additional N331.455 million on local travels & transport, others (Hqtrs & States), N25.004 million on international travels & transport; N188.762 million spent on international travels & transport (audit of foreign mission, consular offices and 20 Attaches) and additional N961.441 million on local training; N21.051 million spent on office stationaries/computer consumables; N3.967 million spent on drugs and medical supplies;N96.274 million spent on maintenance of office building (Lagos & state offices), additional N4.395 million on maintenance of office furniture and N16.830 million on maintenance of office/IT equipment; N4.002 million on other maintenance, N77.284 million on welfare packages,N8.423 million on sporting activities, N6.780 million on honourarium & sitting allowances, N7.721 million spent on medical consulting despite payment of N55.933 million as NHIS contribution; N14.542 million spent on Governance/Institutional reforms; N10.590 million spent on purchase of desktops & laptops computers; N72.555 million spent on insurance premium; N6.194 million spent on refreshment & meals; N24.016 million spent on monitoring/evaluation, among others.

     

    Reacting to the development, Hon. Omowumi Ogunlola from Ekiti State said: “We have a document prepared for us which is pre-emptive. We don’t have any evidence or proof of how the money here is being expended. We at the Public Account Committee have always insisted that MDAs come in with evidence of their expenditure. Is it because this is Auditor General’s office that they will just give to us these documents for us to see without any evidence of how the budget given to them is being expended?”

    “Secondly, this is the office of the Auditor General for the Federation. You audit all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Who audit this office? Which office is saddled with that responsibility of checkmating this office?

    “We are not auditing them, but oversight them. So, who calls to order the recklessness of the financial spending of this office?”, the lawmaker queried.

    While stressing the need for the oAuGF to provide all supporting documents for all the expenditures incurred by the Organisation since 2019 to date, committee chairman, Hon. Oluwole Oke demanded for relevant documents for the N72.555 million spent on insurance premium in 2020.

    The Committee, following the encounter issued a 7-day ultimatum for the office to submit documentary evidence of all expenditures for the three years under review.

  • School calls for probe of clinic where its student died

    School calls for probe of clinic where its student died

    The Management of the Premiere Academy, an upscale, elite secondary school in Lugbe, Abuja, has called for investigation of the medical procedures applied by Queens Clinic, Abuja on her student, Keren Akpagher, who died in controversial circumstances while on admission in the health facility last June.

     

    Stella Fawehinmi, Lead Director of the school, made the call on Thursday when she addressed newsmen.

     

    Fawehinmi, who spoke in the school premises, said it became necessary for the members of the school’s management, who had been thrown into mourning following the death of the student, to address several dangerous and pernicious allegations flying around in respect of the Akpgher’s death.

     

    According to Fawehinmi, the best way to address what she identified as “misinformation flying around regarding our daughter’s death,” was to shine some light on what happened to Akpagher from the point she was admitted into the clinic and when she slipped into coma, leading to her death.

     

    She revealed that Akpagher was a diabetic patient, a condition the school had managed for two and half years without incident.

     

    She condemned the attempt to contrive allegations of rape on Akpagher, calling it a “thoughtless cruelty to the memory of their student’s exemplary life” by individuals whom she believed were desperate to impugn the integrity of the school.

     

    She said what the school’s matron witnessed when she visited their student in the clinic in addition to serious unanswered questions have convinced her that the clinic has some questions to answer.

     

    The school Matron, Grace Salami, who also addressed the press, revealed that she became apprehensive when she got to Queens Clinic and saw the student’s condition.

     

    According to her, the student’s mother, Vivien Akpagher, had alerted her that Akpagher, who spent the weekend with her family, was in crisis and being taken to a hospital.

     

    Salami recalled that Mrs. Akpagher told her their daughter was in a state of delirium but was alarmed when she got to the hospital and was confronted with frightening indicators.

     

    According to her, Miss Akpagher’s blood sugar that was 112 three days earlier when she left the school had shot to 423.

     

    Amid that grave state of her blood sugar, she learned that the hospital had proceeded to sedate her, a step that she insisted had no professional medical precedence and has been known to lead to fatality.

     

    “The girl was in coma already and was losing pulse,” disclosed Salami.

     

    The Matron narrated that on further enquiry, she was told that the doctor had closed.

     

    In a frantic effort to save what seemed to her a precarious situation, she requested that they move the girl to a better manned and equipped hospital, but Mrs. Akpagher dismissed the suggestion.

     

     

     

  • BREAKING: Masked policemen invade clinic, whisk away Melaye

    BREAKING: Masked policemen invade clinic, whisk away Melaye

    Masked persons suspected to be policemen have reportedly stormed the Police Clinic in Garki, Abuja, whisking away embattled Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye.

    He was believed to have been taken to Lokoja, Kogi State, for interrogation over the alleged shooting of one Sgt. Danjuma Aliu by suspected political thugs.

    A close associate of the Kogi senator confirmed the development.

    Our correspondent learnt that the evacuation of the lawmaker was carried out around 2:15 pm Friday in commando style.

    Melaye, who has been having a running battle with the Force, was rushed to the clinic for medical attention after he slumped last Friday.

    Before he was moved to the clinic after slumping, the lawmaker had barricaded himself in his house in Maitama, Abuja, for eight days, vowing never to give himself up for arrest.

    The Force PPRO at Force Headquarters, Abuja, Jimoh Moshood,is yet to react react to the latest development.

    Details later…

  • Nigerian clinic records 430 cases of snakebite in 8 months

    The Zamko Comprehensive Medical Centre, Langtang in Plateau State, has recorded 430 cases of snake bites in the last eight months, according to its medical officer, Dr. Nyam Azi.

    Azi told newsmen in Langtang on Thursday that nine of the patients lost their lives, while some were still being treated.

    He said that the hospital was currently filled with snakebite patients, adding that the rural health facility, an outpost of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), was already overstretched.

    “As we speak, the situation in the hospital is scary; we receive fresh victims of snakebites every day.

    “Snakebites are common during the farming season because more people engage in outdoor activities.

    “Some of the victims are children who dip their fingers into holes in search of rats.

    “All the wards are filled with snakebite victims. Some of the admitted victims sleep on benches and along the corridors,’’ he said.

    Azi, however, said that the mortality rate had reduced due to availability of the anti-snake venom.

    “Unlike in the past when many victims died, many of those bitten have survived because we have the right drugs.

    “The villagers have also become more enlightened and usually rush to the hospital immediately they are bitten. They no longer patronise traditional healers,’’ he explained.

    The medical officer said that 150 vials of anti-snake venom were donated to the hospital by Mr JohnBull Shekarau, a member of the House of Representatives, and urged other office holders to emulate that gesture.

    “The free drugs have helped indigent victims. Many of them, who usually refuse to come to the hospital because they could not afford the cost of the drugs, now rush here,’’ he said.

    Azi urged governments at all levels to donate anti-snake venom drugs to the hospital to assist the rural dwellers, saying that snakes in the southern part of Plateau were “plenty and highly venomous’’.

  • Equip, use Aso Rock clinic, medical doctors associations tell Buhari

    The Commonwealth Medical Association and the Nigerian Medical Association have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to use the Aso Rock clinic henceforth.

    Vice-President, Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, said it was embarrassing the way public office holders involved in medical tourism.

    He said Nigeria had been losing humongous sums of money in foreign exchange on account of its leaders’ medical tourism to other countries.

    He said, “The country needs to think of how to reverse this unfortunate trend. Nigeria is in a recession and this is not the time for us to drain our economy by political office holders, whose expenses are borne by the state. I hope and pray that we will have the right leadership that will act by example to sort this out because that is the first step.

    “This would give greater confidence to other Nigerians to explore the available medical services in the country. Leaders at all levels need to look beyond their individualism to say, ‘If I want people to utilise health care services in my country, I have to show that I believe in those facilities by utilising them’.

    “So, I will urge all political holders, including Mr. President, to try to live by example. The President should try as much as possible, irrespective of what may be the problem, to see how he can stay in the country and see how he can get his medical needs attended to at the State House Clinic, even if it means importing facilities that are not available here.

    “In any case, if N3.16bn was budgeted for the State House Clinic in 2016 and 2017, I will expect that the money is supposed to improve the clinic to a global standard that will have most of all the needed facilities and equipment. There is no reason whatsoever to say you are looking somewhere else for medical care. It is increasingly embarrassing to see public office holders go outside the shores of Nigeria to look for care.”

    Enabulele added, “The law as it currently exists in our country, states very clearly that except in exceptional cases that have been so determined by medical boards and with approval by the minister of health, no political office holder has any right to be sponsored with taxpayers’ resources for any foreign medical trip. So, even the laws are there.

    “Nigerian doctors are capable and some of those Nigerian doctors abroad were trained in Nigeria. We have good experts and formidable medical expertise with good intellectual capital base in Nigeria. No country has it all but countries devise means of closing the gaps.”

    President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Mike Ogirima said the President wouldn’t have needed to travel abroad, if the Presidential villa clinic was well equipped.

    He said, “We are appealing to the President to replicate whatever experience he had in London here at home. He should equip our hospitals. We can’t keep funding the Aso Villa Clinic if it’s not being used. That clinic should be equipped so as to cater for the President’s medical need.

    “The Federal Government has not been fulfilling an agreement it signed with other members of the Economic Community of West African States to set aside 15 per cent of the budget for the health care sector. If this happens, we would be able to equip our hospitals so that the President wouldn’t need to travel for medical treatment abroad again.”