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Share “I have a history to protect, a reputation to promote, a heritage to maintain and an attitude to exhibit, failure is not part of us.”  —Sule Lamido on BOBA symposium lecture in Dutse on August 30, 2014   IN many parts of Nigeria, those described as “settlers” live in fear for their lives, their property and their citizenship rights. Alhaji (Dr.) Sule Lamido, former Jigawa state governor believes in national unity as a matter of political and ideological principle. He said on many occasions that peaceful coexistence, mutual understanding, political stability and unity of purp...

Share Experts, in a new study, say that blood group O is protective against COVID-19 infection even as being a male makes an individual twice more susceptible to contracting the infection than the female, in Oyo State. The study, which confirmed the association between ABO blood groups and COVID-19 infection and the severity of infection, says individuals with blood groups B and AB were also more susceptible to the disease. Within ABO blood group systems, there are four different blood groups: A, B, AB and O They also found out that the blood group was not associated with whether the patients...

Share Executive Secretary, Oyo State Primary Health Care Board, Dr Muideen Olatunji on Wednesday, announced the take off of mental health and dental healthcare services at the state’s primary health care centres for a robust healthcare delivery in the state. Dr Olatunji, inaugurating the state’s Social Behavioural Change Communication (SBCC) committee, with support from Sustaining Programmes and Partnerships in Reproductive Health Transformation (SUPPoRT) initiative, said it was to promote integrated healthcare service delivery. According to him, the committee is expected to support the S...

Share A consultant public health physician/epidemiologist and a member of the Lagos State COVID-19 Response Team, Professor Akin Osibogun, says that the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)’s emergency approval of Oxford, the AstraZeneca vaccine is a right step to prevent individuals from developing severe illness and  will cut Nigeria’s spending on required intensive care unit services. Professor Osibogun, who declared that this now means the vaccine can be legally imported into the country and administered to Nigerians, however, said NAFDAC will need to co...

Share For several years, the late Chief Olusola Saraki, the Waziri Ilorin, reigned supreme in the Kwara State politics. From the Second Republic down to the present democratic dispensation, his name made or marred the political fortune of many aspirants in the state. His political clout  spanned  over three decades. The political legacy of “Oloye” remained unrivalled until 2019 when the “Oto ge” Tsunami put an end to the political influence enjoyed by the Sarakis in Kwara State politics. With a change in government, courtesy of the “Otoge” revolution, a political “greenhorn”...