Experts have identified science-based technology and deductive reasoning as panacea to many clinical problems in the country.

THE on-going Eko Free Health Mission and other health initiatives of the Lagos State government would not have achieved much success but for the regular payment of taxes by Lagosians.

IT was a season of approval for the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s elections as it received boosts from his South-South geo-political zone and the Kaduna State chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday.

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and its partners in Nigeria, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) have strongly urged the government of Nigeria to take immediate steps to follow recommendations from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) and more aggressively address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in the country.

The Asagba of Asaba, HRH Prof. Chike Edozien, has urged the Nigerian Computer Society, NSC, to do all it can to help the nation automate the electoral process, so that the nation will forthwith experience peaceful transitions through credible elections.

Saturday July 16, 2010 was a day the residents of Akinbayode Street in Papa-Ajao area of Lagos will never forget in a hurry due to an early morning inferno that gutted a two-storey building in the area.Nothing was salvaged from the inferno.

In a bid to ascertain a credible election in 2011, the Speaker of the House of Representative, Mr Dimeji Bankole yesterday said the Federal Government should approve the N72billion in order to facilitate a speedy voters’ registration ahead of next year’s election.

AS the Dubai Police was set to extradite the former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori to UK for trial on money laundering and related offences, yesterday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said it would move its case file to Britain to aid his trial.

The scrutiny of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC continued yesterday with the anti-graft agency freezing three accounts belonging to the football house.

Nigeria Football Association yesterday removed its secretary general, Bolaji Ojo-Oba and other key officials. This according to observers, is the fall of the cleansing exercise embarked upon by the Aminu Maigari_led interim management of the NFA, which had seen principal officers like Sani Lulu, Amanze Uchegbulam and Taiwo Ogunjobi being shown the exit door.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has restrained the Lagos Polo Club and its Secretary, Mr Somuyiwa Sonubi from suspending or expelling the former chairman of the club, Mr. Francis Ogboro, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

Nigerian athletes to the IAAF world junior championships in Moncton, Canada are expected back in the country Wednesday after winning three silver medals at the meet.

ABUJA – The Federal Government on Thursday launched the field procedures manual for the Geochemical Mapping of Nigeria, which is expected to help boost mineral exploration and agricultural activities in the country.

Officials of the United States Federal Aviation Administration , FAA), are already in the country to conduct a mock exercise on Nigeria’s aviation prior to the last lap of Category One status.

IN the wake of perceived threat to Nigeria place in crude oil production on the African continent from emerging African oil producing countries, the council chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Nigerian Chapter has dismissed the challenge to the country’s continued dominance, noting that the development only serves to inspire greater effort in-country.