Ade, (29), Accountant: “I can’t remember clearly if the pains started immediately after I began menstruating or not. But if it didn’t, it couldn’t have been much longer. I began menstruating at the age of 14 years, a bit late because many of my age mates had started before then. Whenever the thing came, I would be so ill that going to school used to be a great problem.

By Emmanuel Elebeke For the physically challenged in Lagos State, the 25th anniversary of the  Committee for the Disabled (CODISA) will remain evergreen in their minds. Never in the last 25 years had physically challenged persons been so celebrated. In the country today, little or no attention is paid the physically challenged, but thanks to  […]

By Chinyere Amalu HER one-year-old son firmly tied to her back, Hadiza dragged her two-year old daughter inside the house  where she lived in Kafrim-Liman, settlement in Ganjuwa Local government area of Bauchi State and slammed the door shut. The 25-year old mother had just refused to let vaccinators immunise her children with the oral […]

THERE has been so much noise on the “cleaning up” of the banking sector with the replacement of some bank chiefs. One area which most people have ignored is the huge sums (tax payers’ money) put in the ailing banks and the impact on society.

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has filed a four-count charge of importing fake drugs, worth millions of naira against two Directors of two Nigerian companies before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.