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  • Accident kills 12 in Ogun

     A dozen people – including two drivers- perished on Sunday afternoon when a speeding Kia Cerato car veered off its lane, crossed the road median and rammed into a commercial bus on from opposite direction in Ogun state,

    All occupants of both vehicles died at the scene.

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    The accident occurred around 1pm at the Siun stretch of the Abeokuta – Kobape – Sagamu road.

    The remains of the victims have been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital(OOUTH), Sagamu.

    The Kia Cerato car, which was said to be speeding excessively, suffered a burst tyre.

    It was gathered the driver in panic stepped on the break and lost control before the lethal collision with a Toyota bus from the opposite direction, said Route Commander Florence Okpe of the Federal Road Safety Commission(FRSC), Public Education Officer, Ogun State Command.

     

     

     

  • Car crushes foreigner to death in Ogun

    A car struggling to navigate its way out of multiple vehicles accident scene has crushed a foreign national  to death near Danco Filling Station corridor of the Lagos – Ibadan expressway.

    The multiple accidents which occurred almost in quick succession around 2:20pm, also left the foreigner’s  Personal Assistant with injuries.

    The vehicles involved include Toyota hummer bus on the fleet of Iyare motors and marked AUC 258 XA, Kia(car) with registration number KSF 725 AX, blue TOYOTA jeep with registered as LND 345 CV and another.

    It was learnt that a vehicle hit the man’s Jeep from the rear while returning from Akure, Ondo State, and he along with his PA, had stopped to check the extent of dent on the Sport Utility Vehicle(SUV) but while trying to enter the SUV again to continue his journey, the Kia car slammed him against a another vehicle.

    The foreigner  was said to have died on the spot while his remains have been evacuated to the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital(OOUTH), Sagamu.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident, identified “loss of control occasioned by over speeding” as the cause.

    “The white man was coming from Akure, when a car hit his car at the back. The white man and his driver came down to see the extent of the damage, but in the process of getting into the car to continue the journey, a car hit another car which in turn hit the white man.

    “The car a that hit the white man and the driver have been arrested and taken to Sagamu Divisional Police Headquarters,” Akinbiyi said.

  • Eight Edo indigenes coming from Spain die in accident

    Eight persons, five males and three females, have lost their lives in an accident on Tuesday morning when a Hummer bus conveying them rammed into a Mack truck.

    The accident occurred around 8:30am at the Wictech stretch of the Lagos – Ibadan expressway about two km away from Danco filling station.

    The victims – all believed to be Edo State indigenes, who just flew into the country from Spain this morning, had chartered the bus marked BEN 313 YX on the fleet of Iyare Motors and were going to Benin City for an engagement, when the accident happened.

    Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps(TRACE) were sighted evacuating victims, clearing obstructions and directing traffic.

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    The Public Relations Officer of TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident to The Nation, said the driver of the speeding hummer bus ram into the rear of a truck marked MUS 730 XN in bids to overtake it.

    Akinbiyi said seven of the victims died at the accident scene while one other died later. Their remains have been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu where two others rescued alive, were also receiving treatment.

  • Four feared dead as truck pushes bus into river in Ogun

    Four feared dead as truck pushes bus into river in Ogun

    Four persons – two males and two females, were killed on Friday in an accident when a speeding truck pushed a commercial bus off the Kara bridge on Lagos – Ibadan expressway and thrust it into a river beneath it.
    The accident which occurred around 10:50am involved a  Sinotruck marked  KMC 47 ZB and
     an Urvan  bus. Two of the  passengers in the bus died at the scene.
    The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency(TRACE), who confirmed the auto accident, said the remains of the dead were kept at  the morgue of the  Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, (OOUTH), Sagamu, while the  injured are receiving treatment at the Lagos State Emergency Centre.
    According to Babatunde, the truck driver and his boy have also been arrested and detained at the Akute Divisional Police Headquarters, Akute, Ogun State.
    “The truck lost control due to over speeding, then hit the Commercial bus beside it, which fell from the kara bridge down, a few metres from the river.
    “Out of the six occupants in the Commercial, four  died on the spot and their bodies have  been deposited at  the morgue of the  Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, (OOUTH), Sagamu, while the  injured are receiving treatment at the Lagos State Emergency Centre.
    “However, the two  occupants in the truck (the driver  motor-boy) have been arrested and  detained at the  Adigboluja Police Station, Akute along with  the accident truck  and  commercial bus,” Babatunde stated.

  • OOUTH heads search of breast cancer cure among black women

    Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital(OOUTH)  will lead a coalition of researchers (pathologists) to conduct new and cutting – edge researches on the nature of breast cancer and its cure among  black African women.

    This followed the outcome of a collaborative decision reached at the OOUTH by experts from OOU(Nigeria) and 11 other universities abroad on Friday through ICART – International Consortium for Advance Research on Tripple Negative Breast Cancer(TNBC) during the institution’s faculty of Basic Medical Sciences lecture.

    Dr Deji Agboola, the institution’s Head of Department, Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology, said the research would first focus on Nigeria and Ghana  which are believed to have pure black african ancestries, since black women due to their gene, are more prone to developing breast cancer than their white counterparts.

    Agboola, an associate Professor, hinted that the funds for the project centre to be hosted by OOUTH soon, 5  per cent is expected to come from the United States’ National Institutes of Health(NIH) that is concerned with medical research.

    It should be noted that Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is viewed as interval cancer, and tends to be treacherous, poorly differentiated and tries to evades diagnoses or detection by screening mammograms yet highly proliferative tumors.

    The guest lecturer at the occasion, Dr Ritu Aneja, of the Georgia State University, said she believed that the incident of TNBC is as high as 60 to 70 percent in Nigeria with little variability.

    Aneja said TNBC is the most common subtype among premenopausal African American(AA) women with breast cancer, adding that even among TNBC patients, AAs have worse outcomes than European Americans.

  • OOUTH health workers begin indefinite strike

    OOUTH health workers begin indefinite strike

    •Demand payment of N1.3b salary arrears, others

    The indefinite strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) in Sagamu, Ogun State, paralysed activities at the institution yesterday.

    JOHESU said the strike became necessary to compel the authorities to do the needful.

    The unions – the Senior Staff Association, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Non-Academic Staff Union and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, are protesting “unwholesome working conditions”.

    They are demanding payment of alleged 30 months salary increase arrears and pension counterpart fund by the state government.

    JOHESU Chairperson Mrs. Kikelomo Enaholo said until members are paid N1.3 billion salary arrears, they would not return to work.

    Speaking with reporters at OOUTH, Mrs. Enaholo said they were also demanding payment of March, 2011, salary and “accelerated promotion”.

    She said: “We have exhausted all options to resolve our grievances with the government. We are not politicians. We have been pushed to the wall. We will like to meet with the governor to discuss our grievances. We are ready to negotiate with him the condition for payment.”

    Mrs. Enaholo said the hospital lacked basic amenities, such as water and electricity, and was not functioning effectively, adding: “And this is because the government is insisting that we must be self sustained through our Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).”

    Commissioner for Health Olaokun Soyinka said: “The government is trying to do everything to improve the situation at the hospital and that strike does not help the matter.”