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.

Worried by the endless attacks by some selfish individuals and groups that want the Board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) to do their biddings, the executives of the Delta State Ijaw Oil and Gas Producing Communities Forum (DESIOGRAPCEF) has passed a vote of confidence on the Chief Wellington Okirika led board, describing it as resourceful and fully committed to socio-economic transformation of its mandate areas.

THE shareholders of Juli lc, last week, endorsed proposed plan by its Board of Directors to raise capital by way of a non-convertible bond.

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has assured Nigerians that the current bank crises currently ravaging the country would in no way affect the supply and distribution of petroleum products across the country.