Onokpite family condoles IG
The family of the murdered gubernatorial candidate of Citizens Popular Party (CPP) in 2007 and 2011, Chief Ogbe Onokpite, has expressed their heartfelt condolences to the acting Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar over the death of his dear mother recently.
Nothing is new and nothing is changing
RECENTLY, a minor event took me down memory lane and I felt nostalgic to the point of tears. In my nostalgic mood, a song from the past came to my mind. It was a song by Candi Staton.
Auto crash kills 5, injures 7 in Jigawa
Five people were killed on Thursday in an auto crash which occurred in Zango-Buji village on the Dutse-Gaya road in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa.
Again, students attacked in Oko Poly
…As NANS calls for immediate relocation of school.
AWKA – SOME students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, who returned to the town in readiness for reopening of the institution closed a fortnight ago, following a clash between masquerades and students of the polytechnic, were allegedly attacked by people suspected to be from the town, still bearing grudges against the students for destruction of some property in the town during the clash.
Yet another looming doctors strike in Lagos
IT seems that no year would pass without the healthcare professionals in the employ of the Lagos State Government going on strike for one reason or the other.
70,000 babies test HIV positive annually – NACA
ABEOKUTA – No fewer than 70,000 babies born in Nigeria every year test positive to HIV. Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, Professor John Idoko, who disclosed this yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during a courtesy call on Governor Ibikunle Amosun said the development was as a result of the inadequate utilisation of available initiatives to prevent the transmission of HIV through the mother-to-child route.
