THE STATES

Adamawa

Commissioner for Health in Adamawa State, Dr Fatima
Atiku, said Isa Hamman, the patient who lost his kidney in an operation at a private clinic in Yola, was responding to treatment.
Atiku, in a statement made available to newsmen in Yola, said that the patient was referred to Malam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano.
According to her, Governor Muhammadu Bindow personally intervened in the matter.
She said that Hamman was taken to Malam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital personally by the governor in good faith and that his kidney transplant will be conducted soon.
“Available reports show that Isa Hamman condition is stable, and he is responding to treatment, while clinical examinations are still ongoing,” Atiku said.

Borno

The Borno State Police Command says that it has placed
the former spokesman of the Boko Haram sect, Ali Konduga, under psychiatric investigation.
This, the police said, followed Konduga’s display of abnormal behaviour since his arrest last week.
Mr Victor Isuku, the spokesman of the command, said this in a statement he issued in Maiduguri.
Isuku said that Konduga was arrested after a complaint by one Muhammadu Kala.
“On September 14, one Muhammadu Kala lodged a complaint at the GRA Police Station, Maiduguri, that Mallam Ali konduga of Gwange ward had trespassed into the premises of the house of Senator Muhammed Ndume.
“The DPO led a team of policemen to arrest the trespasser where he had gone to receive treatment for injuries he sustained as a result of a mob action,” Isuku said.

Ekiti

Ikole local government council in Ekiti State, has implored
traders and people patronising Ikole Main Market and other markets in the council area to make use of facilities provided in the markets.
Head of the Department of Environment in the council area, Mr Tunde Famuyisan, made this call while addressing some traders at the Ikole Main market recently.
He urged the market men and women to maximize use of latrine, dustbins and clinic provided in the market.
Famuyisan said the council made provision of these facilities to those visiting the market for one activity or the other; so that buying and selling would be carried out under good hygienic environment”.

FCT

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Mr Fillipo Grandi, said at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), that the commission was committed to working with world leaders in addressing refugees and migrants crises.
This is contained in a statement released in Abuja to newsmen by Mr HansonTamfu, the External Relations officer, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nigeria.
Grandi, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Assembly said that the declaration marked a political commitment of unprecedented force and resonance.
He said that the UNHCR welcomed the adoption of the declaration by 193 governments at the UNGA first ever summit addressing the large movement of refugees and migrants.
“It fills what has been a perennial gap in the international protection system of truly sharing responsibility for refugees in the spirit of the UN Charter”.

Jigawa

The Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency
(SEMA) says flood has killed 18 persons and destroyed 6,637 houses in about 19 local government areas in the state.
SEMA Executive Secretary, Alhaji Yusif Sani, said this while briefing newsmen on the activities of the agency in Dutse.
Sani said that the incidents occurred during the current rainy season.
He explained that the persons died in Gwaram, Dutse, Jahun, Gumel and Ringim local government areas of the state.
The executive secretary said that the flood destroyed 141 houses in Dutse; 419 in Jahun; 525 in Hadejia, 417 in Babura; 525 in Ringim; 822 in Gumel; 529 in Malammadori and 126 in Birninkudu local government areas.
Kaduna

Prof. Nasiru Shua’ibu of Biochemical Parasitology De
partment, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria has developed a new malaria vaccine to prevent high rate of death arising from malaria fever.
Speaking with newsmen in Zaria, Kaduna State, Shu’aibu said the new malaria vaccine was different from others currently in use.
Shu’aibu, who is currently working with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Japan, said the result of the research on the new vaccine would soon be out for Nigerians to use.
“In a simple term that a layman can understand, the content of this malaria vaccine research is difficult, but let me try if I could simplify it, it is called DNA Vaccine.
“It is a new technology for discovery and delivery of vaccine against any infectious disease that was developed in the early to mid 1990s”.

Kwara

Head of Service (H0S), Kwara State, Mrs Zahra Omar,
said the recent discovery of polio outbreak in Nigeria was a disappointing development, despite all efforts to eradicate the disease.
She made the remarks during a courtesy visit to her office in Ilorin by the Rotary Club of Ilorin.
Omar, however, expressed optimism in the eradication of polio in the country.
She also commended the efforts of Rotary Club for assisting the state government in the areas of provision of water and eradication of polio.
Lagos

The Managing Director, Accion Microfinance Bank
(MFB), Mrs Olubunmi Lawson says the bank has partnered with a non-governmental group, JAKIN, to assist 500 vulnerable pupils in Lagos public schools.
Lawson told newsmen in Lagos that the gesture was to give hope and ensure brighter future to those at the bottom rung of the society.
According to her, the partnership tagged: “Dress a Child for School Project’’ is also to support UNESCO International Literacy Day marked on every September 8.
She said that it was also to check the increasing number of school dropouts.
Lawson assured that the gesture would be extended to vulnerable children in other parts of the country.
She said that the beneficiaries would get uniforms, sandals, bags, books and writing materials for 2016/17 academic session.

Niger

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State, has ap
pealed to Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to help sustain peace at the grassroots in the state.
Bello made the appeal when he visited the Commandant-General of NSCDC, Mr Abdullahi Gana.
He said that the state, with the largest land mass in the country, needed deployment of more NSCDC personnel in certain local government areas.
Osun

A member of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr
Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has advised government to invest in tourism in its effort to diversify the economy.
Oyintiloye, who is the House Committee Chairman on Information and Strategy, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Osogbo.
The lawmaker said it was important for government to invest in tourism as it grappled with putting the economy back on track.
According to him, the tourism sector is a money spinning industry and can be used to stablise Nigeria’s economy.
Oyintiloye, who said that the country was blessed with many tourist sites, said that such sites could help boost the economy if government paid serious attention them.
He argued that apart from the fact that tourism could boost the national economy, it could also provide jobs for people.

Oyo

A Consultant Pathologist at the University College Hos
pital, (UCH), Ibadan, Prof. Femi Ogunbiyi, said on Tuesday that early health screening would reduce adult mortality in the country.
Ogunbiyi made the remark in an interview with newsmen, Ibadan.
He defined screening as “an examination or testing of a group of individuals to separate those who are well from those who have an undiagnosed disease or defect”.
The consultant pathologist said that screening included individuals with presymptomatic or unrecognised symptomatic disease.
“The objective of medical screening is to identify a disease in its pre-clinical stage and, therefore, hopefully still curable phase.
“Screening tests are somewhat unique in that they are performed on persons apparently in good health”.
Plateau

Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance
Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf, has called on governors of the 36 States to adopt the scheme in order to achieve universal health coverage in Nigeria.
He made the call in Jos during the Progressive Governance Lecture Series held in Plateau State capital.
He said that the aim of the partnership between the NHIS and state governors was to extend healthcare to most Nigerians and also create strategies to improve health care financing across the states.
Yusuf said that the scheme had recorded low level of health coverage.
He said that most countries such as Kenya, Ghana, and Rwanda had achieved over 50 per cent coverage of its citizens.