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The Oyo State Government has issued a 7-day ultimatum to Traders who sell by the road-side across the State to vacate or face wrath of the law. Speaking with Aanuoluwapo Omorinde on BOTTOMLINE- a political programme on IBR 92.5fm today, the State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Barrister Idowu Oyeleke said the government can no longer condone the uncivilized act of street trading. “We want our actions to be corrective and not necessarily punitive but it is getting to a point where we have to allow the law to run its full course”. But of course, warning will precede punishment”.  " What we do is to design a frame work which works. It is difficult to identify individual person trading on the street and you start giving them notice but I have invited most of the market Leaders to my Office and it is this Market Leaders that we served to go and talk to those who believe that the only thing to do is to trade on the street. For instance, go to Sango and Iwo Road, how d...

The Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Professor Jesse Otegbayo, in this interview by SADE OGUNTOLA, speaks on how the federal health institution is faring, its feats and challenges, especially in caring for accident victims and emergency patients. A recent media report had it that a patient died at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the UCH, Ibadan, after the patient was left unattended for about 12 hours. Would you say this happened because the hospital is overwhelmed?   The report you mentioned cannot be true. UCH, Ibadan, is not a killer-institution. We have a mandate to treat and to heal. Let us look at the circumstances surrounding what was published. It said that they were told to wait. Immediately anybody arrives at our Accident and Emergency Unit, no matter how many people are there, there is an officer designated to look at them and see how critical their situation is. The person will report to the doctor on duty. Regarding that parti...

The Federal Government has threatened to sanction members of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) over its planned strike. The union had threatened to embark on a nationwide seven-day warning strike if the government fails to meet their demands which include payment of hazard and inducement allowance by mid-night of Sunday, September 13. In a statement signed by its national chairman, Joy Josiah, JOHESU said the warning strike will only involve federal institutions while the states and local government health institutions will be placed “on red alert for possible entry into the fray if the federal government foot-drags in attending to our demands”. But speaking on Friday in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, asked the union to shelve its planned industrial action. Ngige argued that the Federal Government has the powers to sanction union over behaviour he described as “off the line.” “As part of the government, we have our own powers to sanction unions. We told...

  The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended the nationwide industrial action.  Dr Aliyu Sokumba who is the President of NARD confirmed this to the media on Thursday evening. Dr Sokumba disclosed that the union will review the progress made in talks with the Federal Government in two weeks. On Wednesday, the Federal Government and the doctors reached an agreement in a bid to end the industrial action. During the meeting which almost took the entire day, NARD had disclosed that it will liaise with the executive council with a view to calling off the strike. Both parties had been in talks to resolve the issues which led to NARD declaring an end to the country-wide strike. After the meeting, the Federal said an additional N8.9 billion has been approved to pay up a large chunk of the June 2020 COVID-19 allowance to all health workers across the nation, This was revealed by Senator Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment during the signing of a Memoran...

 

By Admin   Worried about the growing trend of Non-communicable diseases, NCDs, among Nigerians, President of the NCD Alliance Nigeria, Dr. Sonny Kuku, NCDs Wednesday disclosed that NCDs contribute 60,000 mortalities in Nigeria. Briefing journalists at an event to mark the 3rd Global Week for Action on NCDs in Lagos, Kuku said NCDs lamented that despite NCDs becoming a major cause of deaths globally and in Nigeria, the federal neglected disease such as hypertension, cancer, HIV, Sickle cell Disease, to the background. He further observed that since the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs were adopted in 2015; there has been more attention on NCDs. “To reduce deaths from NCDs, World leaders have committed to a one-third reduction in deaths between 30 and 70 years of age from four key NCDs-cancers, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes.” Kuku highlighted that accessing treatment and care for NCDs is pushing patients and their families into fi...

By Admin   A group, the Campaign for Academic Freedom and Excellence (CAFE), has called for an unbiased process in the election of the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. We understands that the tenure of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Idowu Olayinka will come to an end on the 31st of December. CAFE, in a press statement signed by its Coordinator, Ayanlola Ayanteju, stated that they are concerned about the controversies that trailed the recently concluded congregational election. The congrgational election was held to elect members of the congregation Assembly who would in turn elect two members of the Senate saddled with the responsibility of electing the next Vice-Chancellor. Mr. Ayanteju, in the press statement, however explained that the group is hopeful that if followed, some of their suggestions will assist the electoral body saddled with the responsibility of organising the election of a new VC to organise an unbiased electoral proc...