By Sola Ogundipe PRESIDENT Umar Yar’Adua, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and  the 36 State  Governors are set to participate in the upcoming  Presidential Summit on Health  being coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Health. The event with the theme  “Accepting Collective Responsibility for Improving Our Health in Nigeria,”  holds in Abuja on November 5-6, 2009. […]

By John Moyibi Amoda THE Fall of Adam RECENTLY the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God was reported to have removed the pastor of one its high profile parishes from the office of pastor on account of his re-marriage after a long period of being separated from his wife.

Former President of Nigeria Society for Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Professor Muheez Durosinmi, has stressed the need for the Federal Government to include cancer patients into the National Health Insurance Scheme as a means of reducing the cost of cancer treatment especially lymphomas cancer in the country.

With over 200,000 Nigerian children dying and six million suffering from childhood pneumonia annually, experts have called for a multifaceted approach to combat the disease, now rated the world’s number one killer of children.

The Area Controller of Oyo/Osun command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Nwokocha Evelyn has said the command was battle ready to deal with smugglers who might have the penchant to invade the area with their notorious activities.