Nigeria: Senate Warns Yar'Adua On Health Minister

12 September 2008

Jos — Barely one week after President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua returned to the country after a visit to Saudi Arabia on the Lesser Hajj, the Senate may compel him to appoint a substantive minister of health for the country.

Indications to this emerged in Jos, Plateau State when Senator Gyang Datong representing Plateau North district told our correspondent that the upper legislative chambers was worried that the ministry had no minister.

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