For every aviation minister that is appointed to superintend the sector in the country, the appointee appears not to have assumed office until an inspection tour of the nation’s airport flagship, the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, is undertaken.

THE driver to the former Director of National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in Delta State, Dr. Mercy Okoh, who was arrested following the mysterious death of his boss at Asaba Niger Bridge Head early this year, has been released.

Delta Airlines has thrown its weight behind China Eastern’s signing of a memorandum of understanding to join the SkyTeam global airline alliance.

Aviation industry workers have solicited the intervention of the federal government on the current face-off between Aerocontractors and Oceanic Bank Plc over the re-payment proposal of the $200 million (30 billion) owed the latter by the former.

There was pandemonium last Friday at the popular Cele bus stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, when two suspected armed robbers on a motorcycle snatched a bag from a woman waiting to board a bus to Ikotun area of the state. This incident took place at the peak of commercial activities at the ever-busy bus stop.

LACK of adequate control of asthma remains a major hindrance to its management in Nigeria. Even though asthma control can be achieved, data shows that the majority of patients are still uncontrolled despite frequent visits to their doctors or pharmacists.

DESPITE calls for diversification of the nation’s economy, the federal government has revealed that the economy is still heavily dependent on oil as it currently accounts for about 40 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and well over 80 percent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings.

By Charles Kumolu CALABAR—GOVERNOR of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has commended  efforts of the United Nations Children’s Fund in the state,UNICEF, describing it as his administration’s  most consistent UN partner.

The West African Health Ministers rose from its 11th Ordinary Meeting with a resolution to Institutionalise Traditional Medicine and for Studies to be conducted into herbal medicines for its integration into conventional medicine.

ABUJA — The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engr. Olumuyiwa Alade Ajibola, has stressed that only the use of technocrats in technical positions would ensure that the country coes out of the woods with regards to its infrastructural challenges.

IKEJA sub-zone of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Lagos State has expressed worry over high rate of diabetes, high blood pressure discovered among market women, artisans in Lagos State.

ABUJA — In what might appear as a final declaration of its intent to deregulate the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, the Federal Government announced on Thursday that it has put in place measures in the 2009 supplementary budget and the 2010 budget to cushion the effects of the policy.

AMNI International Petroleum Development Company (AMNI) and Afren Nigeria has formally revealed the beneficiaries of scholarship grants for tertiary, post graduate and specialised studies courses for students from Eastern Obolo Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom state.

With about 400,000 cases of malaria reported in Lagos public health facilities annually, the State government says the Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) programme would now be repeated every six months even as each household will get two Long-Lasting Insecticide Nets, LLIN.

By Peter Egwuatu Barely close to one year that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s newly appointed management took over the affairs of the troubled banks, the Centre For Shareholders’ Enlightenment Limited has called on them to present their score card to their shareholders and other stakeholders. The troubled banks are : Intercontinental Bank Plc, […]