The Police in Ondo State have arrested a nurse, health assistant and security guard at the Comprehensive Health Centre, Emure-IIe, Owo Local Government Area, over the mysterious disappearance of a baby’s placenta. The Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, made this known while speaking with the newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Odunlami-Omisanya explained that the three persons were arrested after the 23-year-old father of the new born baby, Tunde Ijanusi, made a complaint of the incident at the Emure-Ile Police Division H. The police spokesperson said that the 19-year-old nursing mother gave birth to a baby girl on…
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Operatives of the Edo Police Command have arrested nine persons for allegedly attempting to murder two persons in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the suspects, said to be cult members, on June 15 attacked one Festus Osagie, 40, and Olusola Esimaje, 39, at Ologbo, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state. They were said to have opened fire on their victims and injuring them in the process. The Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, confirmed the arrest to NAN in Benin. Nwabuzor said the victims reported the incident at the Ologbo…
Oyo State House of Assembly, has appointed principal officers during the plenary sitting on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the assembly, consisted of 28 PDP and four APC members. The assembly had on the day of its inauguration elected the Speaker, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin – (PDP-Ibarapa East) and Deputy Speaker, Muhammed Fadeyi – (PDP-Ona Ara) for the 10th Assembly. Other principal officers are: Sanjo Adedoyin – (PDP-Ogbomoso South) as the House Leader, Sunkanmi Babalola, (PDP-Egbeda) Deputy Leader, Salami Ayinde Waliu, (APC-Irepo) Minority leader, Gbenga Oyekola, (PDP-Atiba) as Chief Whip, and Yusuf Adebisi, (PDP-Ibadan Southwest) as Deputy…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday, close their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) in their joint petition challenging the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential election. The petitioners, according to a pre-hearing report were supposed to close their case on Tuesday. However, at the resumed hearing of the petition, the petitioner’s lead counsel, Mr Chris Uche, SAN told the court that his clients lost two days out of the days allotted to them and prayed the court to allow them two more days. The court…
A select meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) held in Abuja on Tuesday to strategise for the future. The meeting was organised also to kick-start reconciliation of members after the 2023 general elections. The party’s acting National Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum said the meeting would provide the opportunity to review the 2023 general elections and to share ideas on how to strengthen the party. He said party leaders already had series of meetings with national ex-officio members, states chairmen, select Board of Trustees members and its National Assembly members. “This is a continuation of those…
Some documents requested by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi to be presented as exhibits at the Presidential Election Tribunal are non-existent. INEC made the declaration before the court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday. Obi and the Labour Party (LP) are challenging the Feb. 25 election of President Bola Tinubu before the court in a petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023. Respondents in the petition are INEC, President Tinubu, Vice-President Kashim Shettima and their All Progressives Congress (APC). Giving evidence before the court, Mr Lawrence Bayode, Deputy Director, ICT at INEC told the court…
The Kogi Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says it has seized a total of 1,699.2kg of assorted drugs this year. It said that 90 suspected drug traffickers were arrested within the period. Alhaji Abdulkadir Fakai-Abdullahi, the Commander, disclosed this in a press briefing to mark a week-long celebration of the UN International Day Against Drug Abuse and Trafficking. This year’s celebration has the theme: “People first: Stop stigma and discrimination, strengthen prevention”. The Commander said that the assorted drugs included Cannabis sativa, codeine, Methamphetamine, Exol-5, Diazepam, tramadol, Pentazocine, among others. He said that many of the…
Mr Umar Muhammed, the newly deployed Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to Kwara, has assumed duty in Ilorin on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Muhammed took over from his predecessor, Mr Muhammed Ibrahim, who recently retired from service. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commandant was received by the state Second in Command, DCC Idowu Lawrence, and other senior officers and men of the command. The Quarter Guard was mounted for inspection and Head of Departments and units all paraded to welcome their new boss. Mr Ayeni Olasunkanmi,…
Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency (EDSPHCDA), says Malaria and Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) vaccines will be introduced into routine immunisations for children in year 2024. Mrs Elfrida Omogun, State Immunisation Officer, EDSPHCDA, stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Tuesday, shortly after the agency’s PHCs Social Mobilisation Committee/ Quarterly Stakeholders’ meeting. Omogun said that Edo was under the second phase of the implementation of the HPV vaccination in the country. “Edo will benefit from the second phase of the HPV vaccine that will be given to children between ages 9years…
As part of its effort to boost the digital capacity of its community, eHealth Africa today, 20th June, 2023 trained journalists on the basics of how to create and design websites to further amplify their content in a bid to reach wider audiences. The training is part of the eHA Academy initiative aimed to build the capacity of young people in the utilization of digital tools to solve local problems and promote digital solutions. With over a decade of experience in developing and deploying digital solutions across the continent, eHA established the eHA Academy, a training arm that has been…