You could be infected through public swimming pools

                                         Swimming pool

Any hotel worth its salt has a swimming pool that also serves as a marketing tool. In the leaflets introducing the available services, it is common to see photographs of tantalising sky-blue pools that send you to the dreamland, even when you don’t know how to swim.

Of course, inability to swim does not necessarily disqualify anybody from using a swimming pool, as you can laze about on the edge or sit in the shallow point while sipping your favourite drinks or watching those who can swim.

No more free medical services to terminally ill patients – Fashola

LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said the state would no longer provide free medical services to patients suffering terminal diseases, even as he commissioned the first Trauma and Burns Centre in the country.

The Governor, who spoke while commissioning the centre at the Gbagada General Hospital, Kosofe Local Government Area of the state, explained that the state free healthcare policy could not cover terminal diseases like complicated surgeries, child birth, kidney and cancer, among others.

Uproar as four northern governors visit Amaechi •Protesters stoned governors’ convoy – Rivers govt

L-R: Governors Rabi’u Kwankwaso (Kano State); Sule Lamido (Jigawa) Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), during the governors visit to Amaechi in Port Harcourt.

There was commotion again in Rivers State as thousands of youths believed to be loyal to the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, reportedly threw stones and other objects at the convoy of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa.

For Funke Akindele, a kiss too brief

                                                  The estranged couple


 The reported separation of celebrated actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, Kehinde Oloyede, lengthens the list of celebrities with failed marriages,

Some days after pictures that Funke Akindele took on location for a new film – in which she acts as a palmwine tapper – circulated on the social media, the story of her separation from her husband, Kehinde Oloyede, broke on Monday.