Bethel Olujobi, Author at Businessday NG

Mushin to Birmingham: How Akintola set African history in the UK

Mushin to Birmingham: How founder, Akintola made African history in UK

Bethel Olujobi Jun 01, 2024

Daniel Akintola, a Nigerian entrepreneur set African history in the United Kingdom after emerging as the 2024 IAMBCU Awards Entrepreneur...

Nigerian students win grand prize at Huawei ICT competition in China

Nigeria wins grand prize at Huawei ICT competition in China

Bethel Olujobi May 31, 2024

Nigerian undergraduate students achieved remarkable success at the recently concluded global Huawei ICT competition in China....

Lagos boys mentored on leadership, avoiding drugs, cultism by US alumni

US alumni mentors Lagos boys on leadership, avoiding drugs, cultism

Bethel Olujobi May 31, 2024

To commemorate the International Day of the Boy Child, alumni from a US professional exchange program met with young schoolboys...

Foundation launches campaign to promote menstrual hygiene awareness in Nigeria

Menstrual Hygiene Day: Group empowers 20,000 women on menstrual hygiene

Bethel Olujobi May 30, 2024

No fewer than 20,000 women and girls have been empowered with the provision of menstrual kits, menstrual hygiene management education,...

One PoS for 38 Nigerians fills ATM’s cash crunch

Group decries mandatory CAC registration for PoS agents

Bethel Olujobi May 30, 2024

…Says 1.5m jobs lost in one year The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents of Nigeria (AMMBAN) has decried...

FG seeks justice for expelled Teeside Nigerian students, intervenes

Bethel Olujobi May 30, 2024

The federal government has planned a delegation to intervene in the deportation of Nigerian students by Teesside University, UK due to......

Nigerians among 5 largest employees in UK NHS The UK National Health Service (NHS) has identified Nigerians as one of its five largest employees, as per a recent report. The tabular ranking, which organised NHS workforce according to nationality, places Nigeria in top 5 among 101 countries. The report indicates that there are up to 10,494 Nigerians currently working in the NHS, trailing closely behind Poland, which has 10,520 health workers employed in the Service. The United Kingdom tops the list with over 1.1 million employed professionals, followed by India– the highest migrant country to the UK– with 32,117 workers. It is worth noting that the number of employed health professionals in the UK NHS has decreased according to data from the previous year. Last year, BusinessDay reported that the United Kingdom granted visas to a total of 18,224 Nigerian health and care workers in one year, according to official data from the British government. Earlier this year, it was also revealed that a total of 18,143 care workers and home carers left Nigeria to seek employment in the United Kingdom in 2023, joining India and Zimbabwe as the non-EU countries with the most care workers and home carers in the UK. However, emotions ran high as the UK government recently enforced strict new visa rules on overseas care workers this year to cut down on the country’s migration numbers. Effectively, foreign care workers were prohibited from bringing their loved ones or dependents to the UK from March 11 and the minimum income requirement for family visas was raised 61 percent to £29,000, which is expected to rise to £38,700 in early 2025. This has contributed to the UK experiencing a shortage in applications from overseas health professionals, especially from non-EU countries. New data revealed Wednesday tell of a 76 percent drop in applications from foreign health and care workers for UK work visas. In Nigeria, there are just over 3,000 doctors produced annually according to the ministry of health, which remains highly inadequate to meet healthcare needs –Nigeria being the sixth most populous country in the world. Shortage of health manpower here is estimated at 18 million people. Last year, Tunji Alausa, the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, announced and double the population of its medical and dental doctors from 5,000 to 10,000 by the next academic year by increasing admission into medical and dental institutions. Also, to fight back brain drain, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) now requires nurses in the country to have two years of post-qualification experience before verification of their certificates can be approved to enable them seek employment overseas.

Nigerians among 5 largest employees in UK healthcare - NHS

Bethel Olujobi May 29, 2024

The UK National Health Service (NHS) has identified Nigerians as one of its five largest employees, as per a recent...

NDDC’s Samuel Ogbuku wants all eyes on the ball, not governorship contest

NDDC’s N84 billion projects

Bethel Olujobi May 27, 2024

There is calm these days at the corporate headquarters of NDDC, the 24-year-old interventionist agency established by the Federal Government...

Businesses: Knowing the strength and threat of substitute products at this time!

Bethel Olujobi May 27, 2024

High inflation as well as economic uncertainty have had significant impacts on businesses, manufacturers, and households, including individual lifestyles and...

Most influential Africans group honours Kugali Media founders with Afrofuturism award for 'Iwájú'

Bethel Olujobi May 24, 2024

The founders of Kugali Media, Olufikayo Ziki Adeola, Hamid Ibrahim, and Toluwalakin Olowofoyeku, have been named recipients of the 2024...

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Bethel Olujobi

Mushin to Birmingham: How founder, Akintola made African history in UK

Nigeria wins grand prize at Huawei ICT competition in China

US alumni mentors Lagos boys on leadership, avoiding drugs, cultism

Menstrual Hygiene Day: Group empowers 20,000 women on menstrual hygiene

Group decries mandatory CAC registration for PoS agents

FG seeks justice for expelled Teeside Nigerian students, intervenes

Nigerians among 5 largest employees in UK healthcare - NHS

NDDC’s N84 billion projects

Businesses: Knowing the strength and threat of substitute products at this time!

Most influential Africans group honours Kugali Media founders with Afrofuturism award for 'Iwájú'

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