IF there is one belief the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa shares with the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC), it is that maximum punitive measures be alloted manufacturers, importers and distributors of fake, substandard, adulterated and counterfeit drugs in Nigeria.

WHO will be the last to eradicate polio? This is the million dollar question begging for answers even as the world enters the last lap of the race towards global polio eradication. The die is cast. In the last few years or so, the polio eradication race has been strictly between the so-called P-A-I-N countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria.

Following the formal commissioning of the Barrister Wuraola Adedoyin Research Library at the Lagos University Hospital (LUTH), the Chairman of the Board of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Mrs. Rebecca Aikhomu has urged the management the Hospital to expedite action towards the accreditation of the its Post Basic School of Nursing.

JUST as Nigeria is stepping up its awareness drive on the control and management of cervical cancer, Merck & Co., Inc. and Qiagen N.V. – two globally respected names in the arena of cervical cancer intervention – are initiating a $600 million corporate collaboration in form of a new programme aimed at increasing access to vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and HPV DNA testing in select GAVI-eligible countries to explore the feasibility of implementing national cervical cancer reduction programmes.

Concerned citizens and Stakeholders into the care of orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) have expressed fear over the impact of global financial meltdown on the number of orphans and vulnerable children in the country, calling for more attention of these less privileged children in Nigeria.