{"id":1222261,"date":"2022-10-11T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/sanwo-olu-launches-health-insurance-scheme-for-nollywood-veterans\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:41:04","slug":"sanwo-olu-launches-health-insurance-scheme-for-nollywood-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/sanwo-olu-launches-health-insurance-scheme-for-nollywood-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanwo-Olu Launches Health Insurance Scheme For Nollywood Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State has launched a health insurance scheme for veteran Nollywood actors and filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The governor disclosed this at a dinner he held for some of the veterans on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also shared the information in a statement on his official Facebook page on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Some veterans present at the dinner include Idowu Philips aka Iya Rainbow, Adebayo Salami aka Oga Bello, and a host of others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong>NLC Lauds Sanwo-Olu On Planned Salary Increase For Workers<\/p>\n<p>The statement read, \u201cI hosted veteran Nollywood filmmakers to a dinner on Monday night in appreciation of their contributions to the growth of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used the opportunity to institute a health insurance scheme for them to ensure they are well covered for adequate medical care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe realise that this industry is one of the highest employers of labour. The veterans and practitioners have continued to provide succour and a means of livelihood to a lot of citizens. More importantly, they give freshness to our lives through their stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe health insurance scheme is part of our interventions to assist them with access to health care in public health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis scheme will be specially categorised for professionals in the film business and those who have shaped our society with their craft.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State has launched a health insurance scheme for veteran Nollywood actors and filmmakers. The governor disclosed this at a dinner he held for some of the veterans on Monday night. The governor also shared the information in a statement on his official Facebook page on Tuesday. Some veterans present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}