The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, told President Goodluck Jonathan that Nigerians will not accept any excuse for non-performance, now that he is fully in control.

NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has upgraded its laboratories nationwide ahead of the visit by officials of World Health Organisation (WHO) this week for final inspection before probable international accreditation.

An Abuja High Court sitting in Gudu, Monday, fixed 21 May to hear two separate applications filed before it by former House Committee Chairman on Power, Mr. Godwin Elumelu and his Senate counterpart, Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane, asking it to stay the criminal action initiated against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

IF Nancy had not gone on the Pill, she would probably still be having children at the age of 50. If Ronke was not on the Pill, she would not have spaced her children so evenly. If Jane was not on the Pill, she would have had another unsafe abortion.

Nigerian medical doctors have charged President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently overhaul the nation’s poor health system as well as consolidate the peace process initiated by late President Yar’Adua.

FOUR-YEAR-OLD Aaishat Dikko is going blind. Retinoblastoma – a devastating eye disorder that is threatening to take her eyesight, has already claimed her left eye. When she was born into the Shamsudin Dikko family, Aaishat weighed a healthy 3.2 kilogrammes.

Federal government needs to redirect its malaria awareness programmes to the grassroots with a view to ensuring that messages gets to nooks and crannies of the country.

The need for proper financing of healthcare delivery was at the front burner of the maiden Annual General Meeting of the Lagos State chapter of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) last week in Lagos.

Chairman Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello has described as an “allegation” the purported taking as wife of a 13-year -old girl by Senator Sani Yarima.

The urgency attached to stamping out HIV &AIDS in Nigeria brought together top Nigerian women in politics to the formal launching of Bayelsan Silhouettes, an HIV & AIDS, Media Awareness campaign in Abuja.