By Festus Ahon UGHELLI- Chairman of Delta State Chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Ufuoma Pemu, has commended Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, for his exploits in the implementation of the various health care programmes in the state. Pemu, who spoke in Ughelli last Tuesday during the 2009 Physicians’ Day, stressed the need […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa – Almost nineteen months after Bayelsa State government promised building a Government Reservation Area (GRA) in Yenagoa, the capital city to ease the acute accommodation problem facing residents, the project is yet to take off. The state Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Chief Whisky Ayakeme, had last May, while enumerating […]

Since 1986 when the first case of a person living with AIDS was reported in Nigeria, public perception about the disorder has gradually strengthened.

THE need for continuous education on ethical conduct of research for healthcare professionals across the country has been identified as a means towards minimising the high records of mishaps in human research. Dr. Adebayo Adejumo of the Centre for West African Bioethics & Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan made the call in Lagos last week while speaking at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) & African Malaria Network (AMANET) series of workshops.

WITHOUT prejudice to the provisions of Section 294 subsection (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, an election petition and an appeal arising therefrom under this Act shall be given accelerated hearing and shall have precedence over all other cases or matters before the tribunals or court”. – Section 48 Electoral […]

The global psychiatric world is set to assemble in Nigeria as from Thursday October 22, 2009 as the 3-day meeting of Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals from all over the world takes off in Abuja.

CONTROVERSY continues to trail the issue of the handling of gunshot victims with the Lagos State Branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) declaring the Bill on gunshot victims presently before the Senate as unnecessary, just as Federal government set up an implementation/publicity committee on the issue.

The Asaba Massacre of 7th October, 1967 and other incidents of killings of civilians in Asaba Division

Mr. Emma Okocha in his book “Blood On The Niger” has with great skill and painstaking research told the story in some detail of the terrible and horrendous pre-meditated massacre of hundreds of able-bodied male citizens of Asaba on 7th October, 1967.

AHAMBA advises the ANPP thusly: “They should move first to stop the impeachment process, then ensure that the party regains the mandate because if they allow (Gadi) to be impeached, he may lose the locus to ask that he be sworn in”.

By Evelyn Usman September 15, 2009 , was like every other day for the Adeyemi’s, as the bread winner Mr. Alabi Adeyemi left his Ajitadun abode in the ancient city of Abeokuta, Ogun state, bidding members of his family goodbye. As he was about leaving, his four-year-old daughter, Ayoka  clung to him in an apparent […]

By Innocent Anaba & Ifeanyi Okolie LAGOS — SOME of the high profile debtors of  Bank PHB Plc, Equatorial Trust Bank Ltd and Spring Bank Plc, yesterday, met with officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at an undisclosed location in Lagos.

*Wins at retrial elections tribunal By Austin Ogwuda ASABA – THE five-man retrial elections Tribunal sitting in Asaba, yesterday, dismissed the petition filed by the Democratic Peoples Party’s governorship candidate in the 2007 polls, Chief Great Ogboru, challenging the election of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan as Governor of Delta State. But in a swift reaction, Great […]

AS doubts pervade the horizon over the Federal Government’s dream of generating about 6,000 Megawatts of electricity by December, a frontline motivational speaker, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, yesterday led over 5,000 members and other Lagos residents to the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja to protest the epileptic power supply in Lagos and other parts of the country.

By Evelyn Usman The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a total of 113 policemen for various offences, ranging from indiscriminate shootings, illegal duty to  corrupt practices. Twenty-nine of the arrested policemen were dismissed from the Force after they were found culpable of the offence during orderly room trial. Some of the dismissed policemen were […]

THE Police in Lagos yesterday raised a security alert, alleging that it had received reports that some youths were finding their ways into Lagos.