In a press release dated May 12, 2024, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) urged the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities related to the production of adulterated products. This call to action comes in the wake of the agency’s successful dismantling of an illegal alcohol manufacturing…
Rick Slayman, the first patient to receive a transplanted pig kidney, has passed away at the age of 62. This is coming barely two months when Africa Health Report (AHR) published the groundbreaking operation that took place at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a genetically-edited pig kidney was transplanted into Slayman, who was suffering from end-stage…
Hundreds of thousands students in Nigeria hoping to continue their education to higher levels have their dreams and expectation aborted because of the increasing wave of insecurity occasioned by terrorists’ activities. The insecurity has put the Safe Schools initiative at risk. Ogbodo Ozioma Favour in this special report writes that many students/pupils learn under the…
Some unknown gunmen have reportedly shot dead a middle-aged man, identified as Khalid Bichi, in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday night. Bichi, said to be an employee of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, was reportedly killed by his attackers just before 9 pm while he was out to get food, the Guardian reports. According to sources,…
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend the implementation of the controversial cybersecurity levy policy and ordered a review. This followed the decision of the House of Representatives, which, last Thursday, asked the CBN to withdraw its circular directing all banks to commence charging a 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy…
The Federal Government has commenced the process of review of the nation’s visa and immigration policy as a way to bolster ease of doing business in the country. Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, speaking at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting on Nigeria Visa Policy on Saturday in Abuja, said there was urgent need to remove…
Gov. Usman Ododo of Kogi State on Saturday expressed dismay that all the CCTV cameras were switched off before the abduction of students of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Kogi. The governor disclosed this when he visited the university campus for an assessment of the security situation in the wake of the…
There appears to be no respite for former Nigerian international, Tijjani Babangida, as his son who is about a year old has died from injuries he sustained in the fatal road accident that claimed the life of his father’s brother, Ibrahim Babangida. On Thursday, April 10, 2024, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics gold medallist, his wife,…
Countries have been working long hours to conclude on a ‘Pandemic Treaty’. But they must shift from paper works, political bragging to realities through early responses against next global outbreak. After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do…
…Development Could Lead to Anarchy, Group Cautions Policemen have taken over all the entrances and exit to the House of Assembly quarters located along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The development emerged on Friday as face-off between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike,…
