Mr. Akinsola Akinfemiwa is the outgoing Managing Director of SkyeBank PLC. He has seen many days in the banking industry traversing from IMB, Chartered Bank, Barclays, Prudent Bank to Skye Bank climaxing as MD/Chief Executive Officer .

With continued rise in the cost of cancer treatments and management in Nigeria, experts have called for massive but a positive awareness campaign on cancer, saying it would prevent further avoidable deaths from the disease.

A CLOUD of uncertainty lingered in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, as the party unceremoniously postponed indefinitely its Board of Trustees, BoT meeting which was slated for last night.

THE senator representing Edo South Senatorial District, Senator Ehigie Uzamere, weekend, dismissed the allegation that he had dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Action Congress, AC.

Before now, I had heard rumours concerning her exploits with young men, and I did my best to be careful. So I guarded against being a prey to her whenever the time arose. I prayed also and believed God was in control.

Hearing in the N7.5 billion fraud case involving an unnamed bank currently before an Abuja Senior magistrate Court was today stalled following the sudden disappearance of the case file from the registry of the court.

The reigning Carnival Calabar Queen, Mayen Ekpo, has called for gender friendly laws to prevent violence against women. Ekpo who stressed that recent statistics have revealed growing proportions of gender violence in Nigeria added that stiffer penalties should be put in place for such offenders.

ACCOLADES continued to pour in for Nigeria’s remarkable polio eradication efforts in the last one year even as the 63rd World Health Assembly closed last Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, but a note of caution from the World Health Organisation, WHO, punctuated the wide acknowledgment of the country’s successful march towards a polio-free world. Expectations are that as efforts continue to wax stronger, Nigeria will not be the last to eradicate polio.

A 40-year-old man, Afeez Abiola is currently telling detectives at the Agege Police Division his escapades in fake currency dealings in Lagos, as he was recently arrested with over N70,000 in two hundred naira denomination fake notes while attempting to purchase a motorcycle at Agege Market.

Less than 1000 qualified physiotherapists are serving about 150 million Nigerians. Physiotherapists are health practitioners that implore physical modalities in the management of various disease condition such as stroke.

Today, the burden of cancer in Nigeria is appreciable. Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show an estimated 100,000 new cancer cases occur in Nigeria each year although observers believe the figure could become as high as 500,000 new cases annually by 2010.

Pfizer, a multinational pharmaceutical company, has provided a three-year unrestricted grant for the training of doctors in all secondary and tertiary health institutions in Nigeria and other West African countries through the West African College of Physicians (WACP).

President Goodluck Jonathan will today commission the multi-million naira mineral processing industry in Gusau during his one-day official visit to Zamfara State.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, grilled former Minister of Communications and the Acting Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Mohammed Bello, over an alleged 17.5 million Euro bribe scam by Siemens.

Wife of the Kwara State Governor, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Saraki has called for harmonization of all campaign efforts made by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOS), civil Society and partners towards reduction of maternal mortality and infant morbidity in the country even as she advocated for political commitments by all tiers of government with a view to ensure that mothers do not die needlessly while giving birth.