News

Unknown Assailants Rape, Kill MAPOLY Student

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A student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, had been reportedly killed along Ipara, in Ode Remo area of Ogun State.

Odeh, an ND 2 student of Mass Communication was said to have been kidnapped while going to a movie location in the axis.

A statement by the Students Union leadership of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic indicated that the deceased was also suspected to have been raped by her assailants.

Odeh, it was gathered, won the Miss MAPOLY beauty contest on August 3, 2022.

The statement jointly signed by the Students Union President, Sodiq Ajani and the Public Relations Officer, Joy Okolie, says the deceased was allegedly kidnapped in the last three days while visiting a movie location, stating that the deceased phone was missing when discovered.

The students’ leaders also noted that the body of the slain student had been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Office is being awaited to confirm the incident as the Public Relations Officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi was said to be outside the state when his office was contacted.

Wale Oluokun

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Transportation

Accident Claims Two Lives on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

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Two persons have died in a road accident involving two trucks on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. 

A report from the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps hinted that both articulated vehicles were heading towards Lagos when the incident occurred.

The report said the trucks involved a Hanvan lowberg with number plate WDE 79 XB and another loaded with granite with no visible number plate ran into each other after a break failure.

The trace report said the corpses of the victims have been deposited at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital morgue while the two vehicles have been handed over to Sagamu Police command.

Wale Oluokun

Education

Gov. Abiodun Gifts OAU Best Medical Graduate House, N5m, Scholarship

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Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has rewarded Miss Joy Adesina, who emerged the best graduating student from the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, with a house, a sum of five million naira and a scholarship for further studies.

Governor Abiodun, who made this known at the reception organized in honour of Miss Adesina, an indigene of Ogun State, noted that the medical scholarship would be for her residency at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

The governor reiterated that his administration would continue to recognize and honour exceptional indigenes of Ogun State, who through a dint of hard work attained academic excellence and are found worthy both in character and innovation.

He advised the awardee to put her intellectual prowess into research and scholarship and expressed optimism that Miss Adesina might be Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Medicine.

While calling on the private sector to collaborate with the state government through its Public-Private Partnership, PPP, programme to reposition education in the state, the governor promised that his administration would continue to appreciate and reward positive enterprises and achievements by sons and daughters of the state, especially the youths. 

Responding, the honouree appreciated the gestures extended to her by the state and thanked her parents for their love and support to achieve the feat at the medical school with a promise to make good use of the opportunity.

Bolanle Adesida

Health

Governor Abiodun Approves Renovation Of OOUTH

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Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has approved the renovation and refurbishment of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

Governor Abiodun gave the approval at the Executive Chambers, Oke Mosan Abeokuta while receiving a preliminary report on the hospital from the Governing Board led by the Chairman, Dr Kunle Hassan.

While pointing out that his administration would reposition and restructure the teaching hospital to meet international best practices, the governor said the hospital would be more digitalized for better data capturing and record keeping.

Governor Abiodun who expressed satisfaction with the findings and recommendations of the governing board of the hospital, said the recommendations would bring about a new improved teaching hospital.

Also, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker said the state government would ensure total overhauling of various sections in the hospital towards providing qualitative healthcare services.

Earlier, the Chairman of the Governing Board, Dr. Kunle Hassan had said that the findings and recommendations of the board would reposition the hospital and called on the governor to continue to support the board.

Bolanle Adesida

Health

Ogun Govt. Promises to Raise Standard of Healthcare

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Ogun State Government has promised to restore qualitative healthcare service through the re-energizing of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital at Sagamu.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker made the promise during the tour of the facilities at the hospital alongside the newly inaugurated Governing Council of the hospital.

Dr. Coker explained that the constitution of the Council with seasoned and renowned medical practitioners was aimed at repositioning the hospital and drive drive efficiency.

He noted that the tour had enabled the Council to identify areas where repositioning of the hospital could take off.

The Chairman, OOUTH Governing Council, Dr. Adekunle Hassan, said the Council would come up with ways to resolve the challenges on the short, medium and long terms.

Dr. Adekunle Hassan assured that the Council will work to achieve the qualitative healthcare service delivery agenda of the state government.

Wale Oluokun

Health

Covid-19: Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Shuts Lab

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Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, Sagamu has shut its main medical laboratory unit after fourteen more workers tested positive for coronavirus.

A wave of mass infections hit the teaching hospital with twenty staff testing positive as at last Friday.

One of them was said to have infected three members of his family, prompting the management to shut the Laboratory unit.

However, report says fourteen out of sixteen staff in the laboratory tested positive, which has led to second wave of mass infection at the health facility.

This brings the total number of infected staff to thirty four, including a family of four; the wife of one of the lab workers and his three children.

Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, confirmed the laboratory has been shut for two weeks but declared the statistics of affected laboratory workers remained a private affair

Health

20 Staff of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Contract Covid-19

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Twenty medical laboratory staff of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH Sagamu and another family of four have contracted Coronavirus disease.

The family of four was said to have contracted the viral disease from their father who is a staff of the hospital.

According to information from the hospital, staff of the laboratory started going for Covid-19 test last week following the death of a staff of the department as some others were already ill and manifesting symptoms associated with Covid-19.

The results of the test were said to have started trickling in from last Saturday and as at Tuesday, twenty out of about seventy staff working in the medical laboratory of the hospital had their results positive to the virus.

One of the staff, who spoke with newsmen, blamed the incident on the insensitivity of the management of the teaching hospital by not making protective equipment available for use of the staff.

He stated that in-house union had written the management of the hospital on two occasions demanding the discontinued processing of Covid-19 samples at the main laboratory because of its attendant risk.

The Medical Director, of OOUTH, Dr. Peter Adefuye, when called on phone to react to the incident said he was not under any obligation to speak to the press on the matter, noting that it was only the Commissioner for Health that could give him permission to talk to the press.

Wale Oluokun