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  • Okorocha forfeits state-of-the art hospital to FG

    Okorocha forfeits state-of-the art hospital to FG

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC secured another victory Friday in its campaign against grand corruption in public service as Justice T.G Ringin of a Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, ordered the final forfeiture of a hospital linked to former governor Rochas Okorocha.

    Dews of Hope Hospital, located in the heart of Imo capital of Owerri Dews of Hope Hospital is a N1.5 Billion state-of-the-art 200-bed hospital, whose ownership was denied by a former aide to Okorocha.

    The forfeiture came a day after the commission secured the conviction and sentencing of former governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State(1999-2007) for money laundering and corruption.

    The Commission had on August 22, 2019 secured the interim forfeiture of the Owerri hospital from a vacation Judge, Justice A. T Mohammed of Federal High Court, Port Harcourt.

    The application for interim forfeiture was triggered by evidence that the facility may have been acquired through proceeds of illicit activities, as funds from Government House, Owerri were traced to the hospital.

    The uncompleted structures in the hospital

    The Commission’s investigation revealed that Dr. Paschal Obi, former Permanent Secretary and Principal Secretary to then Governor Okorocha, now a serving member in the Senate, was a signatory to the accounts.

    However, Obi, like members of the board of the hospital, vehemently denied ownership of the medical facility.

    The managing director of the hospital on invitation, could not also explain how the hospital was funded.

    These developments led the Commission to file for the forfeiture of the property on July 25, 2019 under Section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud,and Other Related Offences Act 2006.

    In granting the request for the interim forfeiture of the property, the court ordered the anti-graft agency to publish the Order in a national newspaper, which was accordingly complied with in the Nation Newspaper of August 30, 2019 and Leadership Newspaper of September 3,2019 respectively, asking interested parties to show cause why the property should not be forfeited to the federal government within fourteen days from the dates of the publications.

    Upon the expiration of the fourteen day notice and with no one showing interest in the hospital, the Commission filed for the final forfeiture of the facility.

    The hospital located at the heart of Owerri metropolis, had an adjoining staff and doctor’s quarters.

  • Ex-U.S. President, Jimmy Carter back in hospital

    Ex-U.S. President, Jimmy Carter back in hospital

    Former US President Jimmy Carter has been admitted into hospital in South Georgia, just weeks after he had an operation on the brain at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

    His new ailment was identified as urinary tract infection.

    “He is feeling better and looks forward to returning home soon,” the Carter Center said in a statement.

    Carter, 95, was hurt in November during “recent falls.” The surgery was said to have gone well and there were no reported complications.

    In September, Carter was also admitted to hospital to monitor a minor pelvic fracture after he fell in his home in Plains, 215 kilometres south of Atlanta.

    It was the second fall that month for Carter, who required stitches above his eyebrow after the first incident.

    In an earlier fall in May, Carter broke his other hip, resulting in hip replacement surgery.

    Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981, also is a cancer survivor, having been successfully treated for brain cancer which was diagnosed in 2015.

    The Democrat – the longest-living U.S. president – became a champion for human rights both domestically and abroad after serving a single term as president

  • Ijegun explosion: 10 victims die in hospital – Lagos Govt.

    The Lagos State Government, said on Monday that 10 victims of the July 4 Ijegun pipeline explosion have died due to severe and high degree burns suffered from the inferno.
    The Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Health, Dr Titilayo Goncalves, made this known on Monday in Lagos.
    Goncalves said that three of the victims died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja while seven died at Gbagada General Hospital.
    According to her, out of the 22 victims rescued by the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), nine were taken to LASUTH, 12 to Trauma and Burns Unit of Gbagada General Hospital and one to Alimosho General Hospital.
    “Unfortunately, due to the high degree of burns suffered by these victims which is almost at 100 percent, we lost 10 of them.
    “But we are doing everything possible to ensure that no other life is lost and we will continue to do all in our might to provide intensive care for the remaining and from reports received they are responding to treatment.
    “Treatment of victims with high percentage of burns requires intensive care and management which should follow some treatment protocol.
    “This is why I am appealing to families of the victims to be calm and cooperate with our health workers as they care for their loved ones, “ she said.
    The permanent secretary said in a statement that the state government had so far expended over N10 million on the care of the victims.
    She assured that the survivors were receiving adequate and quality care at the designated government facilities free of charge.
    “Victims of the inferno are being provided with adequate and quality care in our facilities free of charge in line with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s directive.
    “Also, they are being closely monitored and cared for by our specialists to ensure their full recovery and rehabilitation”, Goncalves said.
    Also, the Chief Medical Director, LASUTH, Dr Adetokunbo Fabamwo, said that the hospital and its annex, the Trauma and Burns Unit, Gbagada General Hospital, were providing the necessary care and support needed to aid the victims’ quick recovery.
    “LASUTH alone has expended about six million naira so far to cover laboratory investigations, X-rays, consumables and medications.
    “In fact, one of the patients was treated with silver patches costing N350,000,” he said.
    He added that daily on-the-spot assessments were being conducted by specialists in burns and trauma to ensure that the victims were rehabilitated in line with treatment protocol for burns.
    “I want to assure families of the victims that their loved ones will receive the best care possible and we will ensure availability of medical and other supplies throughout the period of their management,” Fabamwo said.
    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the July 4 pipeline explosion at Ijegun, Lagos State, had claimed two lives on the spot, destroyed several houses and property, and left 13 casualties.

  • Football legend, Pele leaves hospital in France

    Football legend, Pele leaves hospital in France

    Brazilian soccer legend Pele was discharged from a French hospital on Monday after recovering from a urinary infection, media in France has reported.

    Pele, 78, was admitted to the hospital in Paris last Wednesday with a fever after attending an event in the city with French World Cup-winner Kylian Mbappe.

    Pele, considered by many as the game’s finest player and the winner of three World Cups, was treated with antibiotics and said on Friday he was feeling much better.

    There was however no immediate confirmation of the discharge from Pele’s press office in Brazil.

  • Pele collapses again, rushed to hospital

    Pele collapses again, rushed to hospital

    Brazil legend, Pele, has again collapsed and immediately rushed to the hospital.

    According to Sky Sports, the 78-year-old has been admitted in a hospital in Paris, France on Wednesday.

    Pele will remain in hospital as he is being monitored by doctors in Paris.

    “Reports say that Pele has been admitted to hospital in Paris but is not thought to be in a life-threatening condition,” Sky Sports tweeted on Wednesday.

    Pele, who spent his career with Santos before a two-year spell at New York Cosmos in the mid-70s, scored over 1000 goals.

  • Ondo State Govt. closes down illegal hospital

    Ondo State Govt. closes down illegal hospital

    The Ondo State Government on Thursday closed down an alleged illegal hospital called Arib Hospital in Okitipupa, Okitipupa Local Area of the state.

    Dr Dipo Durojaye, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, said the hospital was training about 52 auxiliary nurses, not allowed by law.

    Durojaye added that other offences allegedly committed by the hospital were running medical services without following laid down regulations and non registration of the hospital with the state Ministry of Health.

    He said it would not be business as usual in the state health sector as government would descend heavily on quacks and those opening hospitals indiscriminately.

    The permanent secretary promised that any private health facility training health personnel would be sanctioned as the government would not allow the life of the people to be endangered.

    He decried so much wrong doings in the health sector, saying that the government was poised to sanitise the sector.

    Durojaye also warned patent medicine stores operating as hospitals and treating patients to desist from such act which could pose great threat to the well-being of the society or face the wrath of the law.

    The Director, Hospital Services in the ministry, Dr Richard Adesoji, said quacks were dangerous to the health sector as they were not properly trained.

    Adesoji said they could not make correct diagnosis and usually jumped to conclusions, a situation that had caused unnecessary mortality in the country.

    Adesoji said in spite of the enormous negative effects quacks had on the society, people still ignorantly patronised them.

    He disclosed that hospitals that could not employ qualified nurses, could use the Community Health Extension Workers ( CHEWS) as agreed at the National Council on Health.

    The Director Nursing Services of the ministry, Mrs Alice Ogundele, said it was alarming that some hospitals in that locality had more than 50 nurses in training, when even some accredited Schools of Nursing and Midwifery were only allowed to admit 50 or less.

    Ogundele said the trend was dangerous to the nursing profession, as it would not allow qualified nurses get jobs.

    She said quacks had bevome a source of cheap labour just wasting their future.

    She said the quacks, called auxiliary nurses, constituted danger to humanity as they were half baked, did not know the rationale behind their actions and perpetrated several wrong doings in the health sector.

    They operate Patent Medicine Stores as hospitals.

    The director warned the public not to patronise hospitals where there were trainees.

    Some other hospitals visited in Okitipupa are St. Peter’s Hospital, Akingbola Hospital and Oresanya Hospital, where student trainees took to their heels on sighting the monitoring team.

    They were served letters of warning to desist from acts that were capable of endangering the health of the people or face serious sanctions and eventual closure.

  • Buhari’s wife visits victims of Lagos building collapse in hospital

    Buhari’s wife visits victims of Lagos building collapse in hospital

    The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Saturday visited victims of the Ita-Faji building collapse at the Lagos Island General Hospital to sympathise with them.

    The wife of the President offered her condolences to the victims of the incident, which claimed the lives of no fewer than 20 people, including school children.

    Mrs Buhari, who took time to visit women and children wards of the hospital, prayed to God to grant the families that lost loved ones the fortitude to bear the loss.

    She also wished those still on admission speedy recovery.

    One of the victims and teacher in the school located in the collapsed building, Miss Easter Samuel, expressed her shock over the incident.

    The 19-year-old teacher, who was receiving treatment in the hospital, prayed to God not to experience such unfortunate incident again.

    The Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr Gani Kale, said 10 children were admitted in the hospital after the incident.

    According to him, three out of the patients have been discharged, having certified their medical fitness.

    Kale said there was no case of referral to another hospital.

    The wife of the President was accompanied to the hospital by former military administrator of Lagos State, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa and former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Pauline Tallen, among others.

  • Chelsea’s Zola in hospital after surgery complications

    Chelsea assistant manager Gianfranco Zola has been re-admitted to hospital after suffering complications from gallstone surgery.

    Zola initially had surgery last week and was not on the bench for Monday’s FA Cup fifth-round defeat at the hands of Manchester United.

    The Italian had been expected to return for Thursday’s Europa League last-32 second-leg clash with Malmo but that is now unlikely to be the case, Sky Sports report.

    The club is not putting a timescale on his return to training and Chelsea’s matchday staff.

    Chelsea face big games in two competitions in the next four days, first defending a 2-1 lead over their Swedish rivals at Stamford Bridge.

    They then face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Sunday, looking for a first trophy under Sarri and revenge for the 6-0 defeat in the Premier League earlier this month.

  • MC Oluomo discharged from hospital, travels abroad

    MC Oluomo discharged from hospital, travels abroad

    A chieftain of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya a.k.a MC Oluomo, was on Tuesday night discharged from a Lagos hospital, where he was receiving treatment.

    MC Oluomo was attacked at an All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ikeja on Jan. 8, and was immediately taken to Eko Hospital, following injuries he sustained.

    A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited the Eko Hospital in Ikeja on Wednesday, gathered that MC Oluomo left the hospital on Tuesday night after payment of over N2 million medical bill.

    A very reliable source, who preferred anonymity, told NAN that the NURTW leader may have left for the United States immediately he was discharged from hospital on Tuesday night.

    “He is very fine and has nothing to worry about his health after his treatment at the hospital. Before he finally left on Tuesday night, he was receiving a lot of well-wishers.

    “Sometimes, he moves around and sometimes walks his visitors to the corridor, so he was in a sound health before leaving the hospital.

    “Few days before he left the hospital, his associates were making arrangements for his trip,’’ the source said.

    NAN also observed that there was no more police presence around the hospital, as the three police vehicles stationed there had been removed.

    The Lagos State Police Command had said it arrested some suspects and also declared wanted another NURTW chieftain over the disruption of the APC rally in Lagos.

    The Command’s spokesperson, CSP Chike Oti, had said that those arrested in connection with the incident were helping the police in their investigation.

  • Melaye ‘slumps,’ at SARS headquarters, on admission at undisclosed hospital

    Melaye ‘slumps,’ at SARS headquarters, on admission at undisclosed hospital

    Embattled lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial district Dino Melaye on Friday slumped shortly before interrogation by SARS operatives and was taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention.

    Recall that Melaye surrendered himself to the police eight days after holing up in his residence to avoid arrest by policemen for alleged homicide.

    He was taken to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad office, Guzape, Abuja, for interrogation.

    It was gathered that senators who visited the lawmaker at his residence on Friday accompanied Melaye and his lawyer to the SARS office after failing to meet with the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, at the Force headquarters.

    Over 50 policemen had stormed Melaye’s mansion last Friday in an attempt to arrest him for interrogation over the alleged shooting of one Sgt. Danjuma Aliu.

    The policeman, who was said to be lying critically ill at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, was said to have been injured by suspected thugs loyal to the senator in Kogi State last July.

    Confirming the arrest of the lawmaker, the Force spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement that Melaye had been taken to Police hospital for medical attention.

    He stated that the police operatives waited for eight days for the senator to obey the law and surrender himself for arrest when his claims that he was not in Abuja was found to be false.

    Moshood explained that the senator would be taken to court after investigation.