SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH.
SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH. The Senate today suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of Hon. Yaya Tongo, a member of the House of Representatives, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened from recess amid expectations that lawmakers would accelerate action on the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police across the federation, a measure widely seen as a major step in the ongoing effort to reform Nigeria’s security architecture. However, proceedings were cut short after Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the death of Tongo, who represented the Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency of Gombe State in the House of Representatives. Hon. Tongo passed away at Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja on June 12, 2026, following a brief illness. His death triggered a...
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital {LAASUTH},Ikeja has performed its first open-heart surgery with a team of local medical specialists.The LASUTH Chief Medical Director,Professor David Adewale Oke,made the disclosure at a news conference on Wednesday,stating that the hospital has developed the capacity and know-how with its team of surgeons to conduct safe and cost-effective cardiac surgery.According to him,''The facility can effectively operate on congenital heart disease; knee disease,through knee replacement surgery and kidney disease through kidney transplant''.Oke stressed that all these breakthroughs testify to innovation and professionalism in the hospital,adding that this is one of the dreams of the Lagos State Government which wants to reduce medical tourism by Nigerians to the barest minimum.The CMD said that the burden of structural heart disease requiring surgical intervention was on the rise in the country.Maintaining that LASUTH would continue to deploy frontline technology to tackle the disease and others.''We hope to do our best to bring respite to patients through an effective,but careful use of both human and material resources at our disposal'',he said.
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