THE Lagos State Government has dismissed the alleged sale of blood in its hospitals even as it has initiated better compensation for voluntary blood donors. A member of the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee, LSBTC, Sherifat Lawal said the N4,500 charged for a unit of blood should. not be regarded as payment, but accepted as the normal processing charges. . Lawal who spoke during a blood donor drive organised by the LSBTC, in partnership with the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Centre, maintained that no amount is commensurate with the value of human blood as it is…
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Dr Erastus Akingbola, the former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, on Tuesday, asked an Ikeja High Court presiding over his alleged N47.1 billion theft case to wash-off its hands of the case. . In his preliminary objections filed before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo, Akingbola was arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the charge pressed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Akingbola was charged alongside former executive director of the bank, BayoDada. . When the matter was called yesterday, his lawyer Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, told the court that the applications have been…
The Federal Government and the Republic of Namibia have proposed to construct a joint oil refinery to maximise cooperation in the area of energy. . The decision was reached during the two day official visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Namibia at the invitation of his counterpart, President Hifikepunye Pohamba. . This is contained in a joint communiqué issued on the visit and made available in Windhoek, Namibia. . It stated that the refinery, which would be located in Walvis Bay, would be wholly private financed. . The two leaders urged the private sector of both countries to work toward…
AHEAD of the April 5 Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal constituency bye election, Police in Ondo State yesterday read a riot act to the seven political parties participating in the poll. . State Commissioner of Police, Isaac Eke, at a meeting with political party leaders in Akure, said security details attached to politicians/ VIPs would not be allowed to accompany their principals to the polling units on election days. . Eke said: “There would not be any sacred cow that day as no security detail will be allowed to follow any politician,” warning that violence and intimidation would not be tolerated. . The…
The two Edo-born female boxers, Edith Ogoke and Oluwatoyin Aladeji, have been commended for their performances at the just-concluded African Boxing Championship in Yaounde, Cameroon. . A Commissioner in the Edo State Oil and Gas Development Area Commission (EDSOGPADEC), Mr Wellington Okoh, gave the commendation on Monday in Benin. . Ogoke, who fought in the 75 kilogramme category, won a gold medal, while Aladeji who featured in the 51 kilogramme category won a bronze. . Elena Vystropova (L) of Azerbaijan defends against Edith Ogoke (R) of Nigeria during the women’s Middleweight (75kg) boxing round of 16 of the 2012 London…
THIRTY-ONE suspects including a 28-year old Pastor Okpara Emmanuel Chigozie, who allegedly demanded for N50 million ransom after kidnapping a two-year old girl, have been arrested by the police in Ondo State. . Another 28-year old suspected kidnapper, a student of Niger Delta University Bayelsa, Gasiakpo Niakpo, was paraded for the kidnapping of Olanrewaju Adekunle, a student of Leads City University, Ibadan. . The state Police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, said Niakpo confessed to the crime while his alleged partners in crime escaped. . He said items recovered from him include a Toyota Solara car marked AKD 731 AR, adding that…
A mobile policeman attached to a bank in Minna, Niger State allegedly shot himself. to death with his service rifle. The reason for the suicide remained unknown. . The policeman, identified as Corporal Tanko Usman, according to eyewitnesses, shot himself in an uncompleted building around. General M.I Wushishi Housing Estate along Eastern Bye-pass, Minna. . Sunday we gathered that the corporal, attached to Squadron 12 Police Mobile Force, was returning from his duty post when he parked his motorcycle by the building, entered and shot himself. . The shot attracted people living in the area and passersby who rushed to…
CONTROVERSY over representation at the ongoing National Conference yesterday made the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to threaten to boycott the 2016 population census and subsequent exercises if religion and ethnic data are not included. . Responding to the claim by an Islamic organization, Jama’atu Nasril Islam, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad III, that the process of selecting delegates to the National Conference was not done with fair representation and will affect the credibility of its outcome, CAN General Secretary, Dr. Musa Asake, said the inclusion of religion in population census will correct certain negative impressions…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Special Congress for the nomination of the party’s candidate for the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State has announced a. former governor of the state,Mr Ayo Fayose, as the party’s flag bearer. . The five-man committee, which conducted the congress and headed by a former governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili, declared Fayose after polling 462 votes, while a former Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade, scored seven votes and the former spokesman of. the Yoruba socio cultural organisation, Afenifere,Prince Dayo Adeyeye, had three votes. . A former PDP Women Leader…
About 20 bodies of people believed to have been killed for ritual purposes were discovered, yesterday, in Soka, Oluyole local government area of Oyo State. . Also, 18 men and five women, believed to have been bewitched and bound with fetters in a dungeon, were found and rescued. . One of the rescued victims believed to have been bewitched and bound with fetters in a dungeon, in Soka, Oluyole local government area of Oyo State. . The rescued victims looked emaciated. One of the women was said to have been delivered of a baby who was sold to a waiting…