Osotimehin enjoins Nigerians to donate blood voluntarily
Nigerians from all walks of life have been urged to enlist as voluntary blood donors in support of the drive for blood safety and sufficiency in he country. Minister of Health, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin who made the plea in Abuja Last week said the move would avert the higher risk of transmission of infections from blood and blood products obtained from paid donors.
Rate of poverty threat to nation’s stability, cleric warns
He posited that if all those who claim to be Christians behaved like true Christians, the nation would have been a better place, and lamented that most of those who say they are Christians are hypocrites, advising them to prepare for death because it is inevitable.
MEND wants JTF probed over alleged extra-judicial killings
Video clips of the alleged extra-judicial killing are on an internet portal, www. youtube.com.
N150m scam: Govs contributed to funding — House Leader
By Tordue Salem ABUJA — The Leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, Tunde Akogun said yesterday that the just-concluded retreat for members held in Kano and Uyo was partly funded by Governors, as he exonerated himself from allegations of misappropriation of funds that were voted for the capacity-building event.
Festive fun as Bridge Clinic marks children’s day
IT was a day of festive fun on Saturday June 6, 2009 at the Murhi Okunlola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos, when the Bridge Clinic, a leading fertility clinic in Lagos, organised a children’s party to herald its success 10th year of successful assisted reproductive interventions in the form of IVF.
Kidnapped lawmaker resumes
The Lagos State House of Assembly member, Mr Hodewu Suru Avoseh, representing Badagry II, who was declared missing and later found, yesterday made his first appearance in the Assembly and declined to make detail comment on the issue based on police directive.
