Environment

Environmental Health Experts Challenge Oyo Government On Effective Sanitation Exercise

By Web News 1936

Students of Public Health Department, University College Hospital, U.C.H, Ibadan have appealed to Oyo State Government to restore and implement the weekly and monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Oyo State.

The students made the appeal while carrying out a sensitization exercise in Ajibode.

Three of the students including Olusoji Ojoawo the team leader, Tolulope Majiyagbe and Olumide Adaramoye said the stoppage of the exercise in the state had led to the unhygienic condition of Ibadan metropolis.

The students who said poor environmental sanitation and unguided waste disposal had led to outbreak of diseases and in the state noted that the state government should enforce the use of  waste bin by each households while also subscribing to the state waste collection system.

In an interview, The Jagun Balogun of Ajibode Oke Ona, Chief Moshud Ademola who explained that several efforts had been made through community awareness campaign to ensure routine sanitation pointed out that sanitation was being  handled with  levity.

Chief Ademola  said poor waste disposal had led to flooding in the community said the state government should fine erring households that failed to secure waste bin as well as the services of waste collectors in the state.

Rotimi Famakin

Economy

New Pump Price: Filling Stations Begin Compliance

By Web News 847

The level of compliance to the new pump price of Petroleum Motor Spirit, PMS, in some filling stations in Ibadan has improved.

Our correspondent who monitored the situation reports that a good number of both major and independent marketers had complied with the new official pump price of one hundred and twenty-five naira per litre.

A visit to some filling stations in areas like Sango, Agbowo, Oke-Ado, Challenge, Odo Ona and Molete showed that most of them had changed their meters to the new pump price.

However, fillings stations like Nurduk at Oke-Ado was still selling at one hundred and forty-five naira per litre.

Some motorists and commercial drivers called on Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to enforce the new price on filling stations that were yet to comply.

They, however, urged the federal government to further reduce the pump price of petrol considering the continuous fall in the price of oil in the international market.

Olukemi Akintunde

Crime

Fire Destroys Shopping Complex in Ibadan

By Web News 1115

Cries of pain, loss and regret enveloped the atmosphere at Odo-Ona Elewe, Orita Challenge Area of Ibadan when a shopping complex was gutted by fire Thursday evening.

Crowd of sympathisers besieged the area when the fire broke out.

The complex housed a studio apartment, computer office and residential apartment on the first floor, a hospital which belongs to the owner of the building at the second floor and about six other shops at the ground floor with the first floor completely razed by the fire.

Radio Nigeria correspondent learnt that few patients at the hospital ran for safety when they heard the alarm of fire outbreak.

When approached, victims of the fire incident declined comments as the loss of their property was too grievous.

It took the intervention of the men of the Oyo State Fire Service men to check the fire from affecting other parts of the building.

Officer in charge of the fire service team, Mr. Gbadebo Odebunmi said the cause of the fire could not be ascertained at the moment.

Mr. Odebunmi also said that no casualty was recorded and no person sustained injury.

Olaitan Oye-Adeitan