Bolaji Abdulahi: Sacrificing excellence on the altar of politics

 

Mixing sports administration with politics has been a dangerous development which has always reversed negatively with sports development.

Last week’s sack of former sports minister, Mallam Bolaji Absulahi remains a big shock and sad commentary on Nigerian sports development.

The removal of the Minister from office has been traced to his failure to openly associate with the political interests of the President in Kwara State.

Abudulahi, a close ally and former commissioner to former Governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki may also have been dropped for his failure to openly disavow Saraki’s leadership of the state.

It was revealed that Bolaji Abdulahi had refused to openly associate with the new leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, after Saraki and his followers defeated from the party to the All Progressive Congress, APC.
He was absent at the stakeholders’ meeting summoned by the state PDP Caretaker Committee, drawing insinuations of double loyalty from some political stakeholders in Kwara State.

His failure to address the crowd at the recent PDP rally in Ilorin to re-affirm his loyalty to the PDP government was perhaps the final straw.

The need for health care centres within the public reach BY PRISCILLA CHRISTOPHER

There is no doubt about the fact that the unending global economic instability has affected both the standard of living and the cost of maintaining health. Much as health is wealth, wealth cannot be taken away from the road to good health. We need wealth to keep fit, to protect, maintain or restore our health. Unfortunately, the high cost of living and other necessities needed to keep going have beclouded the average man of the need to take proper care of himself.

In many parts of the world and in units of our nation, people suffer from diseases caused by malnourishment, malnutrition and other illnesses they would have averted if they had the knowledge of how to prevent them. The same goes for those who have an assumed knowledge of where to go to for remedy but die in their search for it due to the long distance between their vicinity and the unknown health centre.

It is no news that several communities in the state and nation at large exist without accessible health centers especially those far from the direct reach of the government. People in such communities thrive basically on herbs which do them more harm than good as there is no dosage for it usage.

Constituency project: Lawmaker commissions library BY EMMANUEL AKPAN

Hon. Efefiong Antigha with Corp members

A multi-purpose Library equipped by a Corp member serving in Okobo Local Government Area, Chukwu Anthony Amaechi, has been commissioned. 

The Library which is situated at the multi-purpose Civil Centre built by the member for Okobo State Constituency, Hon. Efefiong Antigha in Ekeya is a part of the Community Development Project of Corp Member Amaechi.

Expressing his happiness, Hon. Efefiong Antigha said that the Corp member has done him proud on the gesture, describing him as an achiever and pointing out that it will go a long way in uplifting the educational standard of Ekeya and Okobo as a whole. He said he had to change the structure of the building, from a town hall to a multi-purpose civil centre in order to accommodate the library.