Regular hand washing with soap and water, the covering of mouth and nose with a handkerchief of tissue paper when coughing and sneezing have been identified as the most effective ways of preventing spread of communicable diseases.

THE Director General of the Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Dr Dalhatu Tafida yesterday declared in Sagamu, Ogun State, that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was the “candidate to beat in the PDP primaries and the 2011 general elections because he is the choice of God.”

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State been urged to consolidate the gains of the recent closure of the Idumota open drug market by not relenting in dislodging all existing operational bases and distribution networks of fake drugs merchants in the State.

FOR speedy resolution of the election petition matters, a legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, has made a fresh call for the constitution of a five-member Election Arbitration Tribunal.

The November 2010 edition of Reproductive Health Magazine which hit the newsstands last week, focuses on various health issues ranging from aging, infertility, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, breast cancer, sickle cell diseases and more. Other highlights include such information that breast cancer can be caused by the type of bra women wear in addition to several insights from different stories on how cancer can be caused by stress, including a real life story on colon cancer.

The crisis rocking Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has deteriorated as some members of the party yesterday stormed Abuja, demanding the immediate dissolution of the party’s state executive council to pave way for conduct of fresh congresses.

Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam has lend its weight to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control’s (NAFDAC) current focus of zero tolerance to counterfeit regulated products in the country.

Chairman Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, Senator Ehigie Uzamare, yesterday, disclosed that Nigeria’s debt had risen to $32.5 billion. This comprises $4.5 billion foreign and $28 billion local debt.

The Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) has called for the creation of Ministry of Animal Health and Production, as part of measures of stimulating livestock production and guaranteeing the success of the nation’s food security.

Unlike babies in developed countries, many babies in Africa suffer undernourishment, malnutrition, insufficiencies, inadequate attention and insecurity right from birth. Most babies’ condition in Africa cries for a new kind of attention that is synergistic, connective, communicative and all-embracing.

If time could be turned back, no one would appreciate it better than 34- year- old Sulaimon Akorede Odunuga. For him, such a feat would be a way of undoing the circumstances that led to the loss of his sight couple of years back.

Since I wrote “Poor healthcare system: Nigeria’s moral indifference” in 2005 detailing staggering inadequacies in healthcare system in Nigeria, little or no improvement has been witnessed in the healthcare sector. People in Nigeria continue to experience avoidable deaths; they continue to die of treatable illness. It is rather absurd!

The incessant reportage of sexual violations against minors is cause for crying ‘It’s a Wolf’. However, the sexual molestation of minors is not a new phenomenon and has existed for generations in various forms. There has been a conspiracy against the females form the day of birth, first from the Garden of Eden and has rolled down over ages.
One imminent query is why do they sexually molest or violate children or any person at all? Big question, you may ask? Human nature is the first thing that creeps to mind but the oddity is the age bracket and positions of perpetrators and victims.

A MEMBER of the Delta State Water Ways Security Committee, Mr. Omolubi Newuwumi, has called on the state Police Commissioner to come to their aid, as armed robbers and cultists have taken control of the old port town.

Tubal disease, also one of the many causes of female infertility, is a disorder in which the fallopian tubes are blocked or damaged. The fallopian tube is an active, muscular organ that retrieves the egg from the ovary and coaxes it toward the oncoming sperm.