Kogi doctors flee to Yobe, Zamfara - NMA

Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Kogi State, Dr Godwin Tijani has said medical doctors are leaving the state due to poor working conditions and lingering issues of salaries with the state government.

Tijani, who said this yesterday in Lokoja, said doctors have started strike 30 days ago over conditions of service, while the government shows no commitment to addressing their demands.

He said no fewer than 50 of its members had gone for interviews in other states such as Zamfara, Yobe, and Niger while others are on the verge of leaving the country for greener pastures.

Dr Tijani appealed to the state government “to do the needful to prevent further brain drain that has already started in Kogi health sector.”

Policeman allegedly motorcyclist over N100 From Victor Sorokwu, Asaba A policeman yesterday allegedly killed a commercial motorcyclist at a checkpoint killed along Issele-Uku/IsseleMkpitime road in Asaba Delta state, for refusing to give an N100 bribe.

Eyewitnesses said the cyclist was flagged down by the policemen and was coerced to give them N100 but he refused, which made one of the policeman to hit him with his gun butt at the head, resulting in his death.

Irked by the event, a horde of commercial motorcycles riders and irate youths in the locality besieged the Onicha-Olona police station and attempted to burn down the station but for the swift intervention of anti-riot squad drafted to quell the situation.

The Delta State Police Command spokesman, DSP Andrew Aniamaka told Daily Trust on the phone that the police frowned at the jungle justice and was miffed by the action of the motorcyclists and community youths.

He said no report of an incident involving a motorcyclist and a policeman resulting to the death of any of the parties was reported at any of the police stations.