Nigeria, Jan. 9 -- Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has directed the Commissioner for Health in the state, Seiyefa Brisibe, to carry out a "compulsory medical check-up" on every member of the state executive council.

The directive was contained in a statement by the governor's spokesperson, Daniel Alabrah, on Wednesday 7 January.

Mr Diri's directive came less than one month after the death of the Deputy Governor of the state, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.

The Bayelsa State Government had, in December last year, announced that Mr Ewhrudjakpo slumped while he was working in his office, and later died at the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

Speaking on Wednesday during the first state executive council meeting in...