For Osahon Enabulele, Consultant Family Physician at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, and President, World Medical Association, MWA, achieving feats and breaking jinxes has become a way of life. Before surmounting the odds to emerge Africa’s first WMA President, since inception of the global body in 1947, Dr. Enabulele rose to become the…
Esogban of Benin, Apostle of Parliamentary System of Government, is Dead
Prominent Benin chief, elder statesman, and dyed-in-the-wool advocate of the parliamentary system of government, David Uyunmwun Edebiri, died 12.20 pm on Thursday at a private hospital in Benin City, Edo State, following a brief illness. The Esogban of Benin Kingdom, who died barely six weeks to his September 2nd 94th birthday, is next in hierarchy…
Oborevwori to Defray Hospital Bill of Younger Sibling of Two-year-old Boy Killed by NDLEA Officials As He Visits Family in Hospital
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori on Monday visited one-year-old Eromosele Omorhiakogbe currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Center, Asaba for gunshot injury from stray bullets fired by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) along Okpanam Road last Thursday. The governor directed the hospital to forward the cost of treatment to the…
Death of Toddler: Killer NDLEA Officials Must Be Brought to Book Says Oborevwori
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori has called for a thorough investigation into circumstances leading to the death of a two years old boy, Ivan Onose Omorhiakogben Asaba by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in order to bring the culprits to justice and forestall future occurrences. The toddler, a pre-nursery pupil had…
Obaseki Brings Revenue Collection Under Direct Control of His Office, Strips Deputy of Role
Dissatisfied with the state’s abysmal performance in internally generated revenue, Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has transferred all revenue collection functions of the government to his office. The governor, who queried the permanent secretaries of non-performing ministries and agencies, frowned at the plunge in revenues generated to below the ₦30 billion target in the first…
Edo Police Arrest 46 Suspected Cultists, And a Gang of Five Who Allegedly Defrauded a Female Undergraduate
Forty-six suspected cultists allegedly responsible for the various cult killings in Edo State in recent times have been apprehended by operatives of the state Police Command. Also arrested were five members of a fraud syndicate who allegedly defrauded a female student of the Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, of the sum of ₦9.8 million. Recall…
Edo Floods: Relocate Immediately to Camps, Yakubu, Governorship Hopeful, Urges Inhabitants of Coastal Communities
Former Chairman of Esan North East local government area of Edo State, and a frontline aspirant in the 2024 governorship election in the state, John Yakubu has made a passionate appeal to people living in the coastal communities around the River Niger and other flood-prone areas of the state, to move into camps provided by…
Flooding: FCT High Court Halts Further Demolition of Trademore Estate, Abuja
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Zubairu Mohammed, on Wednesday restrained the federal government from demolishing the Trademore Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, as a result of the recent flooding of the estate. Justice Mohammed granted Trademore International Holding Nigeria Ltd, developers of Trademore Estate, an order “for maintenance of status…
NARD’s Looming Strike: FG Failed to Heed NMA’s Advise to Tie Workers’ Wages to Inflationary Trends to Avoid Frequent Industrial Action – Enabulele, WMA President
As the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, gears up for another industrial action that would again disrupt healthcare delivery to Nigerians, the President of the World Medical Association, WMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele says frequent strikes by doctors, indeed workers, in general, could have been averted if the federal government had heeded NMA’s suggestion to…
Edo NMA Lampoons Governor Obaseki over Decadent Healthcare Facilities in Government Hospitals, Neglect of Doctors’ Welfare
It was an embarrassing moment for the new commissioner for health in Edo State, Dr. Samuel Alli, as the state chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Dr. Udoka Imoisili, took a swipe at his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki, for the appalling state of health facilities in public hospitals, and scant interest in the welfare…