President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council from the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, with no mention of the killing of Nigerian youths by soldiers.
The Next Edition reports that soldiers had on Tuesday night attacked unarmed youths demanding an end to police brutality in the country.
Before Tuesday’s shooting, the youths had been on the streets of major cities and towns across the states and Abuja demanding better governance, an action which the President had also pretended not to be aware of.
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Meanwhile, the health minister, Osagie Ehanire while addressing journalists after the meeting, disclosed that his ministry presented a memorandum to the council on a bill to establish a Council for Traditional, Alternative and Complementary Medicine Practice in Nigeria.
According to him, the memorandum seeks to institutionalise traditional and complementary medicine as has been done in other countries, particularly China and India.
He noted that the outbreak of COVID-19 has once a gain brought to the fore, the need for home-grown solutions to all public health diseases and to find the value in our traditional medicine.
“This is an opportunity with which traditional medicine practice can not only be upscaled but also be regulated because there are also areas of malpractice that should be checked.
“It will also provide for the possibility of training, setting up institutions and also being able to research further, working with the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research of Nigeria to dig out the values that are in our traditional medicines, where they can be used and be used for research,” Ehanire stated
