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Some stakeholders in Okuru-Ama Community in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area have hailed the community for the initiation of a unity festival in the community.
A cross section of stakeholders who spoke to The Tide at the grand finale of the Okuru-Ama Unity Festival 2020 said the festival would also bring unity among the people.
Chairman of Okuru-Ama Community Development, Hon Siyeofori Godpower, told The Tide during the celebration that the festival was to promote unity in the community as well as bring back the age long customs and traditions of the people.
He particularly said the Owoko dance and Iria ceremony which were important aspects of the culture of the people were becoming extinct, hence, the need to revive them.
Unknown gunmen suspected to be cultists have reportedly killed two persons at Luubara community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The gunmen were said to have stormed the community, last Tuesday night, and shot sporadically to scare away residents.
À native of the community, Nwibani Barry, who spoke to The Tide on phone, explained that the gunmen invaded the community at about 8pm, and went to a beer parlour near the market square where they shot at the victims.
Nwibani disclosed that two men, whose names were given as Timothy Baridapo and Bariyaa, died at the spot while two ladies who sustained gunshot injuries were taken to the hospital by the Divisional Police Officer at the Bori Division.
LASU Workers Reject Vice-Chancellor Selection Committee Report
Professor Kabir Akinyemi is statutorily unqualified ab initio, having not met the ten years post-professorial experience stipulated in the advertisement for the position.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 30, 2020
Some workers at the Lagos State University have petitioned Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to protest against the recommendation by the institution s vice-chancellor selection committee, pointing out that a man without a PhD cannot confer PhD degrees on students.
In the petition, the workers under the banner of Concerned Staff of LASU urged Governor Sanwo-Olu, who is the visitor to the university, to reject the recommendation.
They alleged that the joint council and senate selection committee acted in flagrant violation of the advertisement for the vice-chancellor position by shortlisting Olumuyiwa Odusanya, Kabir Akinyemi and Senapon Bakre.
By Fatima Mohammed-Lawal
Ilorin, Dec. 27, 2020 Ilorin General Hospital has been accredited by the Faculty Board of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, to train 30 Resident Doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for two years.
Prof. Adekunle Dunmade, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Health Matters, in a Press statement issued on Sunday, in Ilorin, said the accreditation reflected the investments the state administration had made in the health sector, noting that the hospital had also been accredited to train resident doctors in family medicine
“The accreditation, which is the first in the history of the state’s premier General Hospital, followed its fulfilment of several criteria such as relevant equipment required for such postgraduate training,” he said.