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Andy’s typhoid infection had remained persistent for three years despite continuous antibiotic intake. He had always gone for widal test each time he felt the symptoms which were fever, headache, abdominal discomfort, bitter mouth and sometimes back pain, and the results are always positive for typhoid fever. Up until now, Andy has taken a total of 40 antibiotics injections from hospitals, plus self medications with countless packs of amoxicillin, chloramphenicol, co-trimoxazole and ciprotab yet, it appears the infection has grown resistant and persistent. Right now there are indications that the infection has also affected his liver. Andy’s predicament is not uncommon to many with diverse bacterial infections that have remained resistance to treatment, ranging from sexually transmitted infections such as staphylococcus aureus, gonorrhea, pneumonia down to the common malaria fever. Report by experts indicate that virtually all antibiotics in the West African sub region are becoming le...

A ruling of the Court of Appeal expected to be delivered on Tuesday afternoon has been suspended. Court officials told journalists at the court premises that the ruling was suspended following a petition against the judges accusing them of bias. No new date has been fixed for the ruling. Two factions of the party led by former Kaduna State governor, Ahmed Makarfi, and former Borno State governor, Ali Sheriff, have for months battled in court over the leadership of the PDP. As part of that battle, the faction led by Mr. Makarfi had approached the Appeal Court to seek nullification of previous decisions by a Federal High Court presided over by Okon Abang which has affected that faction’s candidate for the November 26 election in Ondo state. Mr. Abang had on October14 given an order in furtherance of his June 29 decision where he had asked the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, to recognise the faction led by Mr. Sheriff. In his October 14 ruling, Mr. Abang nu...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Capt. Sunday Ebenezer Adebomi, has stated that Governor Ayo Fayose’s  personality and alleged autocratic  policies left him with no choice than to dump the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC) . The Ise-Orun-born politician, while fielding questions from a cross section of journalists  in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State Capital on Thursday,  described the state PDP as Fayose’s  personal business. "Fayose ‘s style of governance can best be  described as  autocratic.” He lamented that Fayose wants to be everything; the centre of attraction. He wants to be seen as the  lord of everything . It is quite unfortunate that Fayose now runs the PDP as his personal business.  He runs down virtually all those he felt are better than him, such cannot  be accepted by well meaning Ekiti  people.” The serving captain in the United States Army bemoaned his loss at the 2014 primaries w...

N40 million check issued to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by Former Minister of State for Defense Musiliu Obanikoro has bounced. Mr. Obanikoro, who returned from the U.S. two weeks ago and surrendered to the anti-corruption agency following one year on the run, wrote several checks to the EFCC to fulfill his promise to refund part of the N4.7 billion laundered through him and his son to finance the election of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State in 2014. Mr. Obanikoro, also a former ambassador to Ghana, admitted to embezzling N800m of the funds and promised to refund all of it. The initial agreement with EFCC investigators was for the former minister to refund N100m as a condition for his bail from custody. However, two weeks after his detention, Mr. Obanikoro has only succeeded in paying back N24m. He then issued a series of checks to the recovery account of the federal government last week, but EFCC operatives detailed to process the checks discovered that ...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and leaders of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria have met in Ado Ekiti to sort out differences over the new law restricting cattle grazing in the state. On the demand by the MACBAN leaders that they be part of the patrol teams to enforce the law, the governor acceded and commended their effort to support his administration in getting rid of bad eggs among the cattle breeders. Fayose had on August 29 signed a grazing law entitled, “Prohibition of Cattle and Other Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti, 2016.” Under the law, anyone found violating the bill, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to six months in prison without an option of a fine. The law also provides that any farm products destroyed by the activities of any caught herdsman shall be estimated by agricultural officers and the expenses of the estimate shall be borne by the culprit. Despite threats from MACBAN, who threatened to wage war against the state, the governor had ina...

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors on Tuesday projected that the electricity market revenue would record an N809.8bn shortfall by December. The Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, ANED, Mr. Sunday Oduntan, who disclosed this at a news conference organised by the association in Lagos, said that the federal government had not fulfilled its commitment to the agreement it signed with the investors during the privatisation of the sector in 2013. Oduntan said this projected shortfall was based on the non-cost recovery nature of the tariff. He said that within the last three years that the sector had been privatised, the Discos had been operating at a loss. He said that due to the delay in the implementation of Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO ll) covering from December 2013 to February 2016, the Discos recorded a N12.8bn shortfall. The executive director said that government had not fulfilled its commitment to the agreement it signed with the investors during the priva...

All is now set for Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to appear in the ongoing trial of his former NSA, Col Dasuki, to testify in favour of the former NSA. He had earlier faulted the charges slammed on Dasuki, claiming that the ex-NSA could not have stolen $2.2billion. He was quoted to have said, “We bought warships, we bought aircraft, and we bought lots of weapons for the army. It’s not possible that he stole $2.1 billion.” The ex-NSA’s counsel, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), said Tuesday that, “Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will testify in court. He is one of those who will testify and that the statement he made in London appears to be the first phase of the war chest of the ex-NSA.” “You know the ex-NSA said he acted on Jonathan’s instructions in disbursing some of the cash, and from the look of things, the ex-President is now ready to accept responsibility for whatever Dasuki did. So far, we have secured the consent of Jonathan to appear in court for Dasuki. This will make the tr...

Palpable apprehension has gripped Umunor community in Ossissa Kingdom in the Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State following an exchange of gun fire between suspected Fulani herdsmen and youths from the area late Monday evening. Although, it was not clear if there was any casualty between both parties, it was learnt that the exchange of gun shots followed a failed attempt by some suspected herdsmen to invade the community over the lingering crisis between farmers and herdsmen in the area. Sources in the community told our correspondent on Tuesday that the incident has led hundreds of residents to flee the area to neighbouring villages for safety. It was learnt that the swift intervention of the security agents deployed to the area saved the situation from worsening. A security source who confirmed the latest development in the area to our correspondent said a security post has been stationed in the area following the intervention of the council chairman and the Police Ar...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has declared that the factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, will never become governor in Ondo State. He described the factional PDP candidate as an agent of destabilisation who allegedly had a mission to cause confusion and distraction to the people of the state. He stated this while speaking on Orange FM political programme in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday. He said some agents of confusion were allegedly using current crisis in the PDP to cause confusion in the party so as to pave the way for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress to win the November 26, governorship election. He said, “I want my people in Ondo State to stand by Jegede, they should not be distracted. I believe justice will prevail. This is a fight against democracy. “I don’t know Jimoh Ibrahim, he is not a member of the PDP, he is a spoiler, I don’t know how Jimoh Ibrahim will rule Ondo State. Justice will p...