Health workers strike paralyses services at OAUTHC
Ile-Ife (Osun) – The strike by federal health workers at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, on Friday paralysed services at the institution. Reporters observed that health care services at the hospital were skeletal and most offices were deserted, with only the doctors attending to the few patients in the wards. A doctor […]
Abduction of Foreigners: Security forces close in on kidnappers
Security agencies are on the trail of the abductors of seven foreign construction workers in Jama’re Local Government Area of Bauchi State.In fact, information pieced together by Sunday Vanguard, yesterday, suggested that the abductees were still being warehoused by insurgents inside Bauchi State.
As a result of this, there has been increased security presence in some strategic areas of the state.
2015: Persons with disability unfold demands
The Joint Association of Persons With Disability (JONAPWD) has insisted that its demand on 5% affirmative action on both appointive and elective positions from state and federal governments subsist for any politician to win their support in the 2015 general elections.
Scramble for Nations Cup hero, Mba rages
Super Eagles’ hero at the 2013 Nations Cup, Sunday Mba has balked at claims by Warri Wolves officials that he is their bonafide player.
There are conflicting claims by Rangers of Enugu and Warri Wolves on the where the player’s affirnity lies. But the Mba who scored the only goal that earned the Nations Cup for Nigeria at South Africa 2013 stated that he has fulfilled his contractual pact with the Wolves and wondered why all the noise about his affiliation with the club.
Music keeps me sane – Ade Bantu
Adegoke Odukoya also known as Ade Bantu, a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist, is founder of the Afro-German musical collective and leader of Bantu & Afrobeat Academy Band. The KORA award winner in this interview, lets readers into his life, music and thoughts about Nigeria. Excerpt:
South West Marginalisation: Yorubas, architect of own headache – Ladoja
Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, 68, is chemical engineer product of University of Liege, Belgium. A farmer that he also is, Ladoja was one of the very few Nigerian figures that created the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Between 2003 and 2007, he was elected governor of the Oyo State. For three hours at his Bodija GRA home in Ibadan last weekend, he told Sunday Vanguard the story of what transpired between him and Governor Abiola Ajimobi and how the attitude of the governor has led to the current strained relationship between the ACN-led government and his young but vibrant Accord Party. On the state-of-the-nation, he said since Nigeria cannot be discussed without a mention of the PDP, that PDP’s biggest mistake was its failure to make the late Sunday Awoniyi its national chairman.
