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  • 2000 eye patients get glasses in Aba

    2000 eye patients get glasses in Aba

    There is visual relief for over 2,000 optometric patients in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, as two non-governmental organisations, Emeka Nnamani Foundation (ENF) and Universal Mission USA provided them with reading glasses and also treated them of various eye diseases. The event lasted three days.

    Flagging off the outreach in Aba, Hon Emeka Nnamani explained why he organised the programme in partnership with Universal Mission USA.

    He said, “We gave away over 2000 reading glasses; we are working in partnership with an American-based organisation called Universal Mission USA and we are hoping by the end of the exercise, we would have been able to reach out to as many people as possible who have problems with their eyes.”

    Apart from giving free eye treatment and reading glasses, the boss of ENF hinted that his organisation would soon start up an anti-cancer campaign which is to enlighten people on symptoms, effects and causes of cancer. He equally informed that by the end of the year, his foundation will donation a dialysis machine to the state hospital in Aba.

    Declining to state the cost of the free programme, he, however, admitted it ran into millions of Naira.

    Coordinator of Universal Mission, USA, a charity organization, Nne Ihuoma Ngumoha said her outfit decided to partner Emeka Nnamani Foundation due to the similarity in vision of the two non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

    “This young man has been touching lives in Aba as I heard and he invited us all the way from US to come and help to alleviate some of the sufferings of people which include those who have eye problems. If you don’t have your sight, you become debilitated, you won’t live a normal life and you become unproductive. When he invited us and I saw the need for it, we accepted and that’s why we are here to help restore sight as much as we can.”

    According to Ngumoha who is a public health consultant, “The correlation between both foundations is that we have the same vision; they say like terms attract. We work with people anywhere in the world, even we’ve been to Ghana, we’ve been to other countries where they have the same vision with us which is helping people to better our community, to reach out to the needy, to reach the underserved in any way we can, both eye check, we organize sickness awareness. Right now we have an upcoming awareness on prostate cancer which has been known to cause over 70 percent of middle age men’s death. So, we want to take care of anything we can, after that we might go into sickle cell treatment.”

  • FRSC trains 2000 drivers in Enugu

    FRSC trains 2000 drivers in Enugu

    Two thousand drivers of an Enugu-based transport company, Peace Mass Transit have completed re-certification training at the Federal Road Safety Corps Academy, Udi in Enugu State.

    The 20-day training was aimed at acquainting the drivers with safety measures while on the highways with a view to saving lives. The drivers also underwent medical and psychological test as well as physical fitness.

    The Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi who presented the certificates to the drivers told them that the training was principally to save lives on the highways through careful driving.

    He said that Peace Mass Transit (PMT) has lived up to expectation of the Federal Government on safety on our roads by the regular training and retraining of its drivers.

    According to him the PMT was ahead of all other transport companies in adhering to the expectations and regulations but only had human problems, hence the training of the drivers.

    Oyeyemi charged the drivers that nothing “short of the best is expected from you the drivers as the best was given to you during the training.”

    The Chief Executive Officer of Peace Mass Transit, Chief Sam Onyishi in his remark said that from the responses of the drivers, “the money and time we spent for the training were worth it.”

    He posited that there was no other transport company in Nigeria that has embarked on such trainings other than PMT.

    He said, “Any other company that comes after us is copying from us.” While urging other transport companies to follow suit, he said the facilities at the Federal Road Safety Academy was not meant for Peace Mass Transit only.

    Onyishi urged the FRSC to publicise the academy so that other transport companies would avail themselves of the opportunity.

    Onyishi announced that the company would soon engage female drivers in its crew while expressing his preference for married men as drivers. He charged the drivers that underwent the 20-day training to always show the difference while on duty.

     

  • Over 2, 000 dump LP, PDP for APC in Ondo

    As rumours made the rounds that Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko would defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has been gaining more defectors from the ruling party.

    Over 2, 000 Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state dumped their parties and pitched their tents with the APC.

    The aggrieved defectors said they were worried about their political futures since Mimiko was yet to clarify where he will likely be by 2015 elections.

    A PDP Chieftain, Akin Akinbodunde said his followers have vowed not to stay in the same party with Mimiko, saying that more members of the PDP across the state would soon dump the.

    An LP member, Festus Arakanye said they decided to dump LP because they had vowed not to follow the governor to the PDP.

    Arakanye said after a wide consultation with his followers, they all agreed that APC remains the best platform for them to continue their political journey.

    Receiving the defectors, a Chieftain of APC, Mr Morayo Lebi praised the decamped individual for taking the decision on their political futures.

    Lebi, who is eyeing the APC ticket for the Ondo Southern Senatorial District assured them that APC would give them equal treatment.

    The APC chieftain, who had been touring the six local government areas in his senatorial district, said his intention was to transform the areas if elected in the 2015 general elections.

    Lebi added that he is aware of the suffering of his people, even as he promised to give them quality representation. He also promised that if elected, he would attract Federal Government projects to his constituency.

    He said his focus would be youths’ and women empowerment.

  • PZ offers 2,000 Ibadan traders free medical check-up

    PZ offers 2,000 Ibadan traders free medical check-up

    The queues to the Hot Robb Mobile Relief Centre were long. Those in the queue were mainly traders who came to partake in the free medical check-ups.

    It was a ceremony by PZ Cussons to activate one of its premier products, Hot Robb, at the famous Gbagi Market in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital.

    The events included massaging of the joints and other parts of the body with the Robb, blood pressure (BP) check, free consultations and enlightenment on health-related issues from medics.

    Laboratory scientists, physiotherapists, doctors and nurses attended to ‘patients’.

    Products’ sampling, stole the show off other activities in the market, stalling trading as traders and members of the neighbourhood were enwrapped in the exercise.

    Scintillating fuji tunes wafted live from famous artiste, Saheed Osupa, who is well known in the city.

    Hot Robb, a premium pain-relieving ointment, was used to massage hundreds of volunteers for all manner of pains under the watchful eyes of a physiotherapist.

    Oover 2, 000 benefited from the free medical check-ups.

    Dr. Sekinat Adebola, one of the Medical Consultants, who led the centre, could not hide her feelings about the good work of PZ Cussons and Hot Rob.

    In her words: “Providing the unique platform of a Medical Relief Centre for free medical check-ups in a place like this is a charitable  gesture for which PZ Cussons’ Hot Robb should be applauded.  It is good for the public, especially traders, who hardly go on holidays, to enjoy this type of service; they need to know their health status, what to do or medications to apply, where necessary. Any platform that can afford them free access to medical enlightenment as this is a commendable corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative that other institutions should emulate.”

    A trader in the market and a beneficiary of the free medical check-up, Alhaji Oladimeji Abdulganiyu, lauded the Hot Robb exercise, describing the free medical services as laudable.

    He said though the exercise impeded trading, whatever they lost in sales they gained in the free medical services.

    Mrs. Racheal Olalekan, a resident of Bodija, said: “From now on, I will be applying all I have been told here today. The medical people have advised me on the need for regular walkout and active healthy lifestyle, among others, which I hope to imbibe, the turnout is unbelievable and they attended to us all, we are grateful to PZ and Hot Robb.”

    James Oladipo, another trader in the Gbagi Market, who got massaged, said: “I am most grateful to Hot Robb. I feel more relief now. I have been struggling with the pains around my right knee for days; it is certain that if I continue to apply Hot Robb the way they have done and instructed me now, the pain will go forever.”

    Mr. Oladimeji Muyideen, a computer accessory dealer in the market, said: “This PZ Cussons’ Hot Robb activation is innovative and great. We now know that the company has the love of traders and buyers at heart; apart from the musician they have brought here to entertain us and afford us the opportunity to relax and enjoy ourselves, the free medical check-up and consultations are wonderful, they did their homework very well, bringing these things to our door steps the way they have done is innovative, you can see the mammoth crowd here, we are grateful to them.”

    Brand Manager, Robb, Mr. Aro Olalekan, said the Mobile Relief Centre was designed to further bring the unique values and promises of Hot Robb to the public, adding that the free product sampling and massaging was meant to assure the consumers that the brand can deliver on its promises.

    “Hot Robb,” he said, “is specially made for muscular aches and pains while Robb Original is for cold, nasal congestion and mild pain.”

    Also, Marketing Manager, PZ Cussons, Mr. Charles Nnochiri, who said the campaign would be taken to other parts of the country, assured that Hot Robb will be available to all, adding that the ointment has given consumers quality choice that would deliver on their expectations.

    “Robb Original, as we all knows it to be, is a medicated ointment to give relief from symptoms of cold and nasal congestion and relief from mild aches and pain. Hot Robb is the hot balm that uses fast penetrating and deep-reaching heat to give relief from aches and pains, Hot Robb is positioned as the balm for cold, nasal congestion and mild pain, those, who don’t like massive heat, may use Robb Original while those who prefer faster penetration should go for Hot Robb,” Nnochiri advised.

    He added that the PZ Cussons’ Robb is the leading brand in the medical segment.