MATERNAL MORTALITY:ONDO RECORDS SUCCESS

The Ondo state government says it will not relent at meeting the health requirements of the state. To this end the Ondo state government has embarked on an oversight visit to the newly constructed mother and child hospital in Ondo town where record breaking achievement has been made with over 115 deliveries, 30 ceasarean operations and over 500 ante-natal registrations.

The Ondo state governor Dr Olusegun Mimiko said the government is working in-line with the world health organization standard at achieving the millennium development goal benchmark and giving critical attention to the health needs of the state.

The commissioner for health in Ondo statesaid the newly inaugurated health facility is free that pregnant women should make use of the opportunity. The state government has promised they will not relent in consolidating the gains of democracy to the people of the state.

OBASANJO IN MELO-DRAMA

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has cautioned Nigerian leaders has leaders to avoid any act that could lead to war in the country. He spoke at this year’s annual armed forces remembrance day for the fallen heroes held at the arcade ground in Oke-Mosan , Abeokuta ,The Ogun state capital. The Ex-President who was clad in a white flowing agbada with a blue cap urged government at all levels to remember the families of the fallen soldiers and avoid acts that lead to another war in the country. The programme was put on hold for a while as many people including the deputy governor, Segun Adesegun, the Iyalode of Egbaland; Alaba Lawson went to beg him to lay the wreath in honour of the fallen heroes. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo refused the request to lay wreath because his name was not in the brochure as part of those that would lay the wreath.