THE pericardium is the thin layer of specialised tissue that covers the outer surfaces of the heart. This tissue helps to anchor the heart in place, prevents excessive movement of the heart in the chest when body position changes, protects the heart from infections and tumours that develop in and may spread from nearby tissues, and may help keep the heart from enlarging.

This is one interview that should have taken place 50 years ago. But then, where were we? (That is, these two writers). Chief (Mrs) Opeolu Solanke-Ogunbiyi, born April 12, 1910, is a woman of steel yet full of compassion. First married to Ladipo Solanke, they moved from Nigeria to Sierra Leone and then England not […]

THE Council had to concentrate on other areas of its functions. Apart from the Complaints Committee was the Registration and Disciplinary Committee which was to work with the NUJ to produce a register of Journalists. No such register was ever produced and handed over to the Council.

THE meeting was meant to be brief. Yes, it was. But did it achieve the set objective? No, it did not. This was a meeting between a former Senate President then and President Olusegun Obasanjo. There appeared to be what a senator described as a stalemate.

EVERY year the executive and the legislative arms of the federal government of Nigeria test their power base and flex muscles to determine who is in charge of the national resources and how they ought to be allocated. What is upper most in their minds is who is entitled to the lion share among the various arms of government.