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Stiffer punishment awaits drug offenders – AONDOAKAA

Stiffer punishment awaits drug offenders – AONDOAKAA

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.

PEF  moves to reduce fuel price in Riverine areas

PEF moves to reduce fuel price in Riverine areas

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.

‘Let not Nigeria be the last to eradicate polio’

‘Let not Nigeria be the last to eradicate polio’

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.

IITA records breakthrough against pest

IITA records breakthrough against pest

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.

Deregulation: LPFO, Diesel Prices Jumped in September

Deregulation: LPFO, Diesel Prices Jumped in September

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.