O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation launches geriatric care endowment fund at Rivers varsity
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Much-needed research into the health needs of the elderly receives a major boost as the Port-Harcourt based O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation inaugurates a committee to operationalize its N50 million High Chief (Dr.) O.B. Lulu-Briggs Geriatric Care Endowment Fund to be domiciled at the Rivers State University.
Initially announced on the occasion of High Chief O.B. Lulu-Briggs’s first posthumous birthday in 2019, the Foundation said the Fund would be used to promote Geriatric Care and research into the care of the elderly at the RSU teaching hospital in line with its longstanding commitment to caring for the elderly.
The Peace Panel was saddled with the responsibility of resolving the contentious issues and uniting party leaders in the zone and tackling crisis bedevilling the states chapters of the party in the region.
The APC has become comatose in the South South axis sequel to the prevailing power struggle and division among the critical stakeholders.
Some state chapters of the party are entangled in crisis over who controls the party’s structures.
Others have been polarised with parallel executives running them to the detriment of the party and its chances of winning future elections.
Some states like Rivers are running parallel executives while the political bigwigs have maintained sealed lips and failed to reconcile their differences to form a united front ahead of future elections.
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The All Progressives Congress Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee has voided the suspension of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, former deputy national Secretary of the party, Victor Giadom and Senator Andrew Uchendu by a faction of the Rivers State chapter of the party led by Honourable Igo Aguma.
Amaechi and the two other chieftains were suspended barely twenty-four hours after the Isaac Abbot-Ogbobula-led APC in the state loyal to Amaechi suspended the trio of Magnus Abe, Wogu Boms and Igo Aguma.
The APC ECPC led by Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni in a statement signed by Dare Oketade, Head of Legal Services disclosed that the Honourable Aguma faction was never accorded recognition by its leadership and the National Executive Committee.