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Abducted Benue varsity students released Three students who were abducted from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) in Benue state, have regained their freedom.Advertisement Catherine Anene, Benue police public relations officer confirmed the development.
How not to SLAY a movie At a workshop for film critics, I attended in Accra, Ghana almost 20 years ago, one of the facilitators Olivier Barlet, author, journalist, and film critic, advised us participants to.
ASCAB writes senate, seeks reversal of ‘fraudulent’ privatisation programmes The Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), a civil society coalition, has asked the senate to set up an agency that would reverse alleged fraudulent privatisation programmes carried out.
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Family members and well-wishers preparing for the wedding of Mr Adewale Adekunle and his heartthrob, Ronke, are in shock following the death of the groom in a ghastly motor accident while the bride is currently receiving treatment at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Akure. The ceremony is scheduled for Saturday (today) in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Sadly, the accident happened a week to the ceremony.
The auto crash occurred along the Ondo-Akure Expressway at the Aponmu Village in the Akure-South Local Government Area of the state last Sunday. Eight persons died and six others sustained varying degrees of injury.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER – No fewer than five persons lost their lives while some others sustained injuries in a road accident that occurred along Akure-Ondo Expressway on Sunday.
The crash involved a commercial Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number Lagos AAA 859 AC. The bus plunged into a river on the road. However, the real cause of the accident was yet unknown as the time of filing this report.
It was gathered that the bus was heading towards Akure, the Ondo State capital, from Lagos State when the crash happened at Aponmu Village in Akure South Local Government of the state.
According to an eyewitness, the driver of the vehicle lost control and swerved off the road, and fell from the bridge into the river.
President of NARD, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, made the call on the urgent need to ban officials from traveling abroad for medical purposes during an interview with Daily Trust in Abuja.
He said doing so will bring the desired improvement in the country’s health sector and also save the lives of millions of poor Nigerians who do not have the means of traveling abroad to attend to their health challenges.
Dr Okhuaihesuyi said: “If medical tourism is banned in Nigeria, it will encourage the public officials to be able to develop the health system in the country.”
Asked if that would not put many lives at risk considering the poor state of the country’s health system, and the fact that many people who embark on medical tourism do so for serious and chronic diseases such as kidney, cancer and heart diseases, among others, he said: “We have one of the best set of health workers in the world, and that is why most countries tend to scavenge on doctors in Nigeria.
Ondo govt to pay civil servants 50% of November 2020 salary
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By Dayo Johnson – Akure
Civil servants in Ondo state are to receive 50 per cent of their November 2020 salaries.
The leadership of the organised labour in the state said this in a statement issued in Akure, the state capital.
According to them “only 50 per cent of gross pay would be effected for all workers”.
The statement said: “You will all recall that earlier in the year, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu publicly announced that borrowing to augment salary payment was no longer sustainable as hitherto done.
“Sequel to the above, and in line with its promise to always carry Labour along in matters of salary payment, a meeting between Government and Labour held on Wednesday 27th January 2021 with the government side competently led by the Head of Service to look into and discuss receipts from FAAC.