Day: May 20, 2019

Nigerian Doctor wins “Brain Tumor Research” award in U.S.

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A US-based Nigerian Doctor, Chibawanye Ene, has won the 2019 Ronald L. Bittner Award on Brain Tumor Research. A statement from the Clinical Department, Applied Radiation Oncology U.S., said Ene received the award at the 2019 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting held from April 13 to April 17 in San Diego. The-37-year-old, who is from Akpugo in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, won the award with his research work on ‘Anti-PD-L1 Immunotherapy Enhances Radiation-induced Abscopal Response in Glioblastoma’. Immunotherapy is a type of…

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Gardener arrested for beating WASSCE candidate to death over alleged insult

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a school gardener, Femi Aderonmu, for allegedly beating a Senior Secondary School 3 pupil of the Jubril Martins Memorial Grammar School, Iponri, Rafiu Adagun, to death. It was gathered that Rafiu was heading home after writing his West African Senior School Certificate Examination on Wednesday when he was accosted by the gardener along the Oke-Olu Road in the Iponri area of the state. It was learnt that Aderonmu engaged the deceased in a fight, which led to the latter being unconscious. He was…

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Olubadan says Breach of protocol stalled Obesere’s chieftaincy title

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Oba Saliu Adetunji, the Olubadan of Ibadan land, has said the procedure for prescribing and consenting to honorary chieftaincy title in Ibadan is too sacrosanct to be bent for anybody. Oba Adetunji stated this while welcoming the Fuji Musicians Association executives led by its National President, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Agboola, to his Popoyemoja, Ibadan palace at the weekend. Apparently reacting to the controversy generated by the non-installation of Ibadan-born fuji star, Alhaji Abass Akande Obesere, as Agbaakin Bobagunwa of Ibadan land, the monarch said there was no ill feeling towards…

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Woman arraigned for allegedly striping naked and urinating on church altar

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Moji Aderibigbe, a 39-year-old petty trader, accused of stripping naked and pouring urine on the church altar, has appeared in a Yaba Chief magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Aderibigbe, who resides in Pedro Area of Lagos is charged with insult to a religion and disorderly conduct. The Police prosecutor, Sgt. Modupe Olaluwoye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence at 8 p.m. on May 13, at No. 49, Onabola St., Ladi-lak area of Bariga, Lagos. Olaluwoye told the court that Mr Francis Osibowale, the pastor of the Firebrand Power…

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