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Introduction The 2 nd Biennial Conference of the West African Health Sector Unions’ Network (WAHSUN) was held on April 18-20, 2016 at the Benin Royal Hotel, Cotonu, Republique du Benin. Delegates from health sector unions in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo participated actively in the Conference-in-session. After extensive deliberation on issues of critical concern to the health of the people in West Africa, the health system and the conditions of the health workforce in the sub-region, the Conference-in-session resolved thus:    Resolutions: Combating Communicable Diseases; Conference-in-session observed the severe challenges that have been faced with the outbreak of such communicable diseases as: Ebola Virus Disease; Meningitis; Cholera &; Lassa Fever, in several countries within the region over the past two years. The spread of these diseases, it noted is attributed to weak health sys...

The news of the death of Rotimi “Molobi” Musa Yaqub Obadofin was a very saddening one for me. I gathered it came from a ruptured appendix whilst he was at Osogbo, on April 7. I did not share some basics of his “Marxism-Leninism”, even at the time I worked closest with him. He did have several flaws (which of us, do not in some form or the other), which did make me wary. But, he was one of the greatest teachers I had on organising within the mass of the people and particularly the working class. Such a debt is one that one never fully pays, not even when you pay a tribute on his departure, from the multifaceted scenes of politics which he was a key player in, for some four decades. I met “Molobi” as we fondly called him at the time, in the first quarter of 1989, at Ilorin. He had relocated to Lagos before then, as far as I could recall. He however was in our beloved Petrograd, Ilorin and was a looming presence at the workers’ study group of the People’s Liberation Movement, ...