Health

Rescued Oyo Pupil Diagnosed with Heart Problem

By Web News 18

By Amos Ogunrinde

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Professor Olawale Olakulehin, has announced that one of the rescued pupils has been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect.

Professor Olakulehin made this known to newsmen in Ogbomoso, stating that 31 of the 39 rescued pupils had been discharged after being certified medically fit to reunite with their families, while the remaining eight would continue to receive treatment at the hospital.

He revealed that comprehensive medical examinations conducted on the rescued pupils led to the discovery of the congenital heart defect in one of the children.

Professor Olakulehin explained that the discharge of the 31 pupils marks another important milestone in the rehabilitation process of the rescued victims. 

The CMD said that the remaining eight children would continue to receive specialist medical care until they are certified fit to return home.

He reassured parents and members of the public that the welfare of the rescued children remains the hospital’s top priority, stressing that medical experts would continue to monitor both their physical and psychological well-being as part of a comprehensive post-rescue recovery programme.

The pupils were among those rescued after spending 56 days in captivity following their abduction from three schools in Osiele and Yawota in Oriire Local Government Area.

Edited by Olaitan Oye-Adeitan

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Health

Freed Abductees Reunite with Families

By Web News 22

By Amos Ogunrinde

Some of the schoolchildren rescued from captivity in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State have reunited with their families after receiving medical treatment at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso.

Parents tearfully embraced their children after weeks of uncertainty following 56 days in the terrorists’ den.

Officials of the hospital called out the names of the rescued children as anxious family members waited to receive them.

While some parents wept, others offered thanksgiving as they embraced their children.

One of the mothers who reunited with her child, Testimony and a rescued victim, Mrs Mary Dahunsi, who was discharged alongside her baby, expressed gratitude to God and everyone involved in the rescue operation.

Hospital personnel were seen coordinating the discharge process and assisting families as they prepared to leave with their loved ones.

Edited by Olaitan Oye-Adeitan/Olaolu Fawole

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Crime

Suspected Herdsmen Invade School, Injure Students, Teachers

By Web News 477

Suspected herdsmen, on Thursday morning, allegedly invaded one of the public secondary schools in Oyo State, injuring students and teachers.

The herders reportedly invaded the Community Grammar School, Alaropo Nla in the Oriire Local Government Area of the state.

The herdsmen, according to an eyewitness account, numbering over twenty, allegedly invaded the school with their cattle and injured some of the students and teachers.

Some of the students and their teachers, among whom are Mr Paul Olabode, were inflicted with sword and machete cuts, while many others were left with broken legs and hands.

The source disclosed that the school had just finished morning devotion and students were preparing to settle down in their classrooms to continue their second-term examination when the herdsmen invaded the school farm with their cows grazing mindlessly on crops.

Efforts made by the students and the teachers to drive away the herdsmen were met with brutal resistance.

The school principal, Mrs Grace Alamu, who confirmed the incident to Vanguard through a telephone call, said that the incident had been reported to the police.

“I am on my way to the school. Policemen are coming to the school this morning,” she said.

Meanwhile, all efforts to contact the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Adewale Osifeso, to also confirm the invasion, proved abortive, as several calls placed to him were not answered as of the time of filing this report.

Vanguard/Simeon Ugbodovon

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Environment

Flooded Igbeti-Ogbomoso Road Leaves Commuters Stranded

By Web News 1348

Road users, including traders and farmers plying Ogbomoso-Oke Ogun road were on Saturday morning stranded as flood submerged the road linking Igbeti – Ogbomoso around Aipo area in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.

Many of the passengers who left their home early in the morning in pursuit of their daily affairs could not cross to the other side of the road as the flood has taken over a portion of the road.

The said portion lies between Ikoyi Ile, headquarters of Oriire Local Government and Aipo community.

Witness account has it that, since around 9 o’clock in the morning no vehicle, or motorcycle could enter from Oke Ogun and none of the ones coming from Ogbomoso could cross to the other side.

Some residential apartments have also been affected around Iluju and other communities in the council.

Adedayo Adelowo