Multichoice Nigeria Limited, yesterday explained why it increased subscription rate from N9,000 to N9,500.

THE National President of Itsekiri National Youths Council (INYC), Mr. David Tonwe, has expressed deep satisfaction over the response of Itsekiri communities with arms to the present amnesty programme of the Federal Government, given the willingness of these communities to make available all the illegal weapons in their possessions for onward transmission to the appropriate authorities.

DEBATES over the supposed law that forbids hospitals from treating patients with bullet wounds without a police report re-surface each time a hospital rejects such patient. Many have lost their lives because they did not have a police report, which is not ordinarily easy to obtain. The police have often denied that such a law […]

IN order to end gas flare in the country and meet up with the domestic gas requirement Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has urged the federal government to consider proper structuring of the Independent Joint Ventures (IJVs) and ensure that the it is not bedeviled by the problem of underfunding, a situation which crippled the JV structure with the NNPC.

As the world basks in the euphoria of the latest HIV vaccine, the Center for the Right to Health (CRH) kicked- off an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Shomolu Local Government area of Lagos aimed at creating, strengthening and supporting the adoption of healthy reproductive lifestyle and HIV prevention behaviour among the poor and Most At-Risk Populations (MARPs).

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and two of his estranged political associates Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu are mending fences towards reinvigorating the political opposition in the country.

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.

THE Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) has announced that machineries are in motion to bring about reduced prices of petroleum products in the riverine areas of the Niger Delta.

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.

African cabbage farms ravaged by Diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella, are set to make a come back as a biocontrol-pesticide (Beauveria bassiana) developed by scientists at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture records a huge success in the control of the pest.

IN an apparent move to deregulate the oil sector by allowing prices of petroleum products to be controlled by prevailing market realities, the Product and Pipeline Marketing Company (PPMC) appears to have announced new increase in the prices of some oil products for the month of September.

HIS short, truculent neck and thick-set features are a cross between the looks of a buffalo and a rhinoceros. At close range (as I had during his visit to the High Court in Igbosere during the funeral rites for Gani), he seems uncompromising.

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.