Briefing state house correspondents following the conclusion of the 19th virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC)meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that the approved bill to establish a Council for Traditional, Alternative and Complementary Medicine Practice was meant to put traditional medicine in the spotlight.
The Council has approved the bill seeking to establish a Council for Traditional, Alternative and Complementary Practice in Nigeria, the ratification of the country’s membership of the International Coffee Organisation as well as the National Policy on Plastic Waste Management in Nigeria.
Dr Ehanire said that the outbreak of COVID-19 has renewed the requests for local solutions to the public health diseases in order to find value in traditional medicine.
He also said that the council would offer the country the opportunity to upscale traditional medicine practice and also regulate areas of malpractice that should be checked.
However, the FEC has kept mum over the murder of defenceless youths at the Lekki Toll Plaza on Tuesday night. The youths have been protesting against police brutality by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.
They were shot at by security agents wearing the uniform of the Nigerian Army in pitch darkness on Tuesday night.
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