Tell yourselves the truth. Does a friend who sleeps with her friend’s husband not know that the same man will sleep with his wife later? Or does a sister who is in an affair with her sister’s husband not know that he sleeps with his wife? Any man who takes a woman to bed, will surely take another, and another. So, why is she doing it?

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that 2.3 million people living with HIV have been reached with lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment through AIDS programmes it supports, a 31 per cent increase over results reported a year ago.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent by email to the media, saying its fighters launched an attack on the Atlas Cove Jetty in Lagos state overnight, the first in the area since the group began its latest campaign in May.

EVEN though Nigeria was not listed as one of the countries to be visited by President Barack Obama on his maiden trip to Africa last weekend, the American leader nevertheless found it expedient to single out for special mention, Nigeria’s path-breaking interfaith initiative to defeat malaria.

Health Minister Prof. Babatunde Oshotimehin has attributed poor and inadequate funding, poor political will as the major challenges facing the control of epidemic outbreak in the West African countries.