APPEAL COURT NULLIFIES JUDGEMENT AGAINST RIVERS LG ELECTION. (PHOTO).
Appeal Court nullifies judgement against Rivers LG election The Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified the judgement that barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from releasing voters register to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, for the conduct of local government elections that held in the state on October 5. A special panel of the court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Onyekachi Otisi, faulted the Federal High Court for barring security agencies from providing security during the elections. The panel held that the lower court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain suit against the Rivers State LG elections. He stressed that Section 28 of the Electoral Act does not cover elections conducted by states, but only federal elections, governorship and area council elections in the Federal Capital Territory. It will be recalled that Justice Peter Lifu of the high court had, in a judgement he delivered on a suit that w
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital {LASUTH} in December 2015 carried out the first successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa as well as successful Cochlear Implant surgeries on three deaf patients without the support of foreign doctors,the State Government said on Tuesday.The State Government,through LASUTH,also had its first successful Kidney Transplant carried out by the Hospital's team of Urologists and Nephrologists in November 2015 and discharged the patient in good condition on December 1,2015,while another transplant is being planned.The State's Commissioner for Health,Dr Jide Idris,who made this known at the ongoing Ministerial Press Centre in commemoration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's one year anniversary,said just in eleven months,the State Government recorded remarkable feats in the health sector due to the purposeful leadership and support of the Governor.He said in the period under review,LASUTH in collaboration with Vision Care and South Korean Community in Nigeria provided free cataract surgeries for 120 Lagosians and treated 250 outpatients between November 9and 13,2015 with 100 percent success rate,while under the blindness prevention programme,a total of 7,250 patients with varying ophthalmic conditions were screened at 29 different community screening venues out of which 4,867 representing 67.1 percent were given free glasses.One more photo below. 
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