Resident doctors protest over poor state of health sector
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Association of Resident Doctors, University of Benin Teaching Hospital Thursday protested over the falling standard of health sector and doctors welfare in the country.
Aigboje Ikhuoria reports that resident doctors led by the UBTH Branch President of the Association, Doctor Oseghale Eustace said if urgent steps are not taking by the federal government to meet their demands, they will be forced to down tools.
Edo State Government’s ban on collection of taxes by private bodies have continued to attract commendation from commercial bus drivers and traders in Benin City. Adesuwa Lato reports that although bus drivers no longer pay taxes to private bodies, there is still hike in transport fares.
A fueling station located on Akure Road in Mugbagba area of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, was on Sunday razed along with other adjoining residential and business offices by an afternoon fire. It was gathered that the trouble started at about 4PM when a tanker off-loading fuel at the station, began to emit thick smoke. An eye-witness said that the smoke had emitted from the tanker for almost 20 minutes while the staff of the filling station did not pay much attention to it. The fire eventually escalated when a driver who was queuing for fuel suddenly switched on the engine of his vehicle and sparkled off a huge fire ignited from the nearest pump in the station. The ensuing inferno razed the nearby buildings, the filling station, and other nearby offices and vehicles parked within its premises. It created a huge tension among the people of the state capital, many whom wailed and cursed while watching the havoc being wreaked by the fire. Number of building and offices and ...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned the call for the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigners to end their actions. Professor Soyinka says the attempt by security operatives to stop the protesters is not in the interest of democracy. He stated his disapproval on Thursday at an event in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. He Nobel laureate insisted that the BBOG campaigners, who are campaigning for the rescue of the missing Chibok girls, were merely expressing their democratic rights rather than constituting public nuisance. Procession To See President Buhari Soyinka’s disapproval comes after security operatives prevented a peaceful procession of the BBOG campaigners from reaching the Presidential Villa. The procession, on its way to see President Muhammadu Buhari, to demand an update on the abducted Chibok girls, was stopped at the Independence Avenue by security operatives, who were “acting under strict orders”. Former Minister of Education, Oby...
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