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The Lagos State Government today reiterated its commitment to the provision of free and qualitative healthcare service to the citizenry within the scope spelt out in the State’s Healthcare Policy. The State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, who made Government’s stand known in reaction to a report in the Vanguard Newspaper of Wednesday, July 17, 2013 titled “No more free medical services to terminally ill patients – Fashola”, described the headline, published on page 10 of the newspaper, as misleading. That, as he said, is why the government has revolutionized the healthcare system to deepen it to…
Factional Chairman Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Don Pedro Aganbi has called on Nigerians to disregard a statement credited to Ibinabo Fiberesima that Frank Dallas national Public Relations Officer of the guild has been impeached for insubordination. In a statement to Starconnectmedia, Aganbi who described Ibinabo as a confused woman, said she lacked the power to suspend anybody from the association. “ She has no right whatsoever to impeach or suspend any elected officer. Ibinabo should go and put her life together first. As we speak she has seven court cases hanging on her neck including the EX-CONVICT case. She…
How far can you go to impress it on a friend that you are truly in love when the person is not interested? Kill yourself to make that point? That seems to be the exact thing Afea did to indicate her undying love for Friday in the film, Tempest. Friday takes delivery of a painting from a mail runner and places it at a vantage point in the sitting room. Soon strange things starts happening, his live-in lover is killed in mysterious circumstances. In a dream, Afea appears to him that she is desperate to return to life and that…
The Yoruba Film and Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (YOVIFPMAN) have resumed the business of releasing films into the market after the short break. This week, a total of 29 films were pushed into the market, with effect from Monday, 15, 2013. Topping the list is Jaguda by Emmilius, Ketekete by Dee Tee productions, Okanla by Aseyi Real, Opeke by Suntab and Agbara by Asiri Productions. Others are Akuko Oru by Toymax films, Igla by Olasco Films, Olowo Lomo Naa by Gemini Films, Ogo Ologo by Small World, Juwonlo by Mercury Pictures, Adebola Omo Oba by Corporate Pictures,…
Showbiz expert, Oprah Winfrey is back to number one on Forbes’ 100 most powerful celebrities in the world. She earned $77 million between June 2012 to June 2013 but Forbes said she is not the highest earner on the list. But that her money mixed with strong fame scores metrics like press mentions and social networking power pushed her to the top. Lady Gaga, who topped the list in 2011 ranks second despite cutting her tour short due to a hip injury. She made a gross earning of $80 million with second-most press mentions behind Rihanna. Gaga is also a…
Forbes, the leading business and finance journal today released its annual rundown of the highest paid actors in Hollywood with Robert Downey Jnr. (RDJ) as the top paid actor for the year 2013, having raked in an estimated $75 million between June 2012 and June 2013. Channing Tatum is No. 2 with earnings to the tune of $60 million in the past one year. Coming third on the list is Hugh Jackman with $55 million. Jackman helped turn the musical “Les Miserables” into a global smash hit, and he earned a big up-front payday for the next “X-Men” adventure, “The…
Beginning from July 19 to 21, DStv subscribers who are not in the premium bouquet will have a taste of some of the channels in that bouquet. This is coming, courtesy, Open Weekend, which Multichoice says it is using to delight customers who are in family, compact and access bouquet. The channels ranged from Super-sports, Discover, MTV, BBC, Comedy Central and Africa Magic. Others are Fox, Big Brother, MTV Base, Travel channels, BBC Lifestyle and other interesting channels. This is no doubt part of initiative by the organisation to give Nigerians with low income that have not been able to…
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola today handed over the first trauma and burnt centre at the Gbagada General Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Speaking at the event, the governor said the centre is equipped with facilities to handle first degree burns, adding that only few countries in Africa can boast of the level of facilities that the state has invested in the health sector. He said he was fired-on by the need to set up the trauma and burnt centre after watching well trained doctors battling to give life to patience but were limited by lack of equipment. He…
A Swedish professor of sociology has nominated the whistle blower, Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. Stating the rationale or the nomination, the professor said that the NSA whistleblower could help “save the prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision” to give the 2009 award to Barack Obama. In his letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Stefan Svallfors praised Snowden for his “heroic effort at great personal cost, adding that by revealing the existence and the scale of the US surveillance programs, Snowden showed that individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms.…
Ailing music producer, OJB Jezreel has called on well-meaning Nigerians to stop further donation to his cause since he now has enough money to go ahead with his kidney transplant. The talented artiste who is still at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) for dialysis said he is due for the transplant in mid August. Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi was among those who came to his call for help by donating $100,000. He thanked all those who have come to his aid by making donations. “Now that I have gotten all the money needed for my medical…