Anaesthesia is a specialization of medicine that deals with reversible, controllable and predictable methods of pain relief for operative surgery; with or without loss of consciousness. Anaesthetists primarily therefore work in the operating theatre. However and owing to their in-depth training on principles of measurement and monitoring equipments as well as acute medicine, anaesthetists are often in charge of the Intensive Care Units.

The continued withholding of the results of the 2010 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in Bayelsa State by WAEC may scuttle the high education aspiration of the affected students in the state.

The immediate past President, Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN), Dr. Samuel Nzekwe, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to reduce lending rate to 10 per cent.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, declared his intention to run for the office of the President in the 2011 election via his Facebook profile page.

Former Head, Finance and Account of Interconnect Clearing House Nigeria Ltd., Mrs. Foluke Tomomewo, has instituted a winding-up proceeding against the company for the alleged refusal of the company to pay her severance benefit.

Shareholders of Honeywell Flour Mills Plc have commended the impressive performance of the company for the financial year ended March 31, 2010.

Nigeria’s Flamingoes are now the only African team left to carry the continent’s burden at the ongoing U-17 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Joint Task Force, yesterday, waded into the face-off between women of Torugbene community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, over the alleged refusal of the company to involve women in the implementation of the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU, in the area.

VICE Chairman of the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Delta, Edo and Ondo States, Mr. Andrew Igiri, has appealed to the Edo State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to look into the demolition of Agbede Ijaw settlement in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of the state by Okomu Oil Palm Plc, under the guise that the community and its environs were sold to it by the Chief Lucky Igbinedion administration.

When the 2010 All Stars Veterans Cup kicks off Friday, the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, deposed President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari will be among the leading stars to feature in the games.

This edition details the duties of the employer and the employee in handling people living with HIV/ AIDS as stated in the new international standards adopted at the 99th International Labour Conference, held in Geneva, Switzerland.

In the wake of defeat something positive might emerge from Nigerian football.After failing to qualify for the African Under 17 Championship, Eaglets coach, Monday Odigie has revealed why his team lost to Congo and pleaded with the football federation to allow him keep his job.

Nigeria dropped again in the latest FIFA ranking for the month of September released by the world soccer governing body on Wednesday.The Super Eagles slid four places from the 30th position in August to 34th in the latest ranking.

FRESH facts emerging from Tuesday’s bank robbery at Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, showed that apart from the robbers carting away over N28 million, they also damaged the police station adjacent to the bank.

The Nigerian stock market witnessed the 5th day running of uninterrupted decline as the market indicators for measuring the performance indices , the market capitalisation and the All Share index (ASI) dipped Tuesday, by 1.13 per cent each.