MAJOR events in Ondo state in 2015 include kidnapping of high profile indigenes, workers locking horns with government over salary arrears, defection of prominent party leaders, impeachment of the state Deputy governor and appointment of a new one, resignation of the leader of the Pan Yoruba Socio- Political group, Afenifere and installation of a new Deji of Akureland amongst other happenings.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders have been urged to ban the wearing of full-face veils by Muslim women as part of an effort to limit the growing number of Boko Haram female suicide bombings.

Winners have emerged in the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), broadband essay competition in its 2015 edition.

IF many people were surprised at the merger of Power, Works and Housing into a consolidated super ministry, very few if at all would dispute the choice of Babatunde Raji Fashola as the right man to head the new ministry.

ONE of the biggest myths about rape and sexual violence is that it happens as a result of uncontrollable sexual desire. Being uncontrollable, the perpetrator cannot be held responsible for his actions. Therefore the survivor must have done something to be raped. Responsibility and blame are then shifted from the perpetrator to the survivor.

THE Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has been called upon to wade into the brewing crisis between members of the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Lagos branch, and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, who are spoiling for a showdown over alleged insensitivity of management to their plights and highhandedness of the Agency’s Director of Administration/Human Resource.

Between, commercial banks in Ijebu Ode and Ago-Iwoye, were shut for several days for fear of robbery attacks. The banks refused to open when the armoured personnel carrier used by the Police to give them protection from bandits was not deployed shutting down commercial activities in the area.

I was eight-years-old when a man raped me. If his action ended there, it would have been better for me but, it was the beginning of many problems ahead of me till today. After the rape, I was taken to the hospital for treatment. It was after many tests that the doctors said I had developed VVF. I have been operated twice as a young girl.

In March, 2015, the re-election bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan welcomed the year in the South West as leaders and elders from the region were pitted against each other over Jonathan’s re-election. Separate meetings were held in Lagos and Ibadan in March 2015 where both camps expressed different opinions on the topic and the agelong emotive issue of national conference for the ethnic nationality.

Pfizer Nigeria in the scope of its corporate social responsibility recently supported St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church during their health week to address the growing problem of cardiovascular diseases in the country. This was achieved through donation of strips for cardiovascular screening. The screening which covered health parameters like blood pressure, glucose, total cholesterol held in the church premises.