Medical professionals who gathered at the 2010 Physician Week organised by the Lagos State Branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have raised concern over challenges pose by growing urbanisation to healthcare delivery services in the country.

The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Mr. Abdulsalam Mohammed has praised the collaborative efforts between the Lagos State Government and a Singapore_based firm, Penguin Ferry Services Pte Ltd, in exploring the Nigerian market to supply ferries to ship operators.

With the introduction of a new PermaNet® Net Curtains in the Nigeria market, Nigerians can now draw their curtains on mosquitoes courtesy of Vestergaard Frandsen, a leading innovator of disease-control textiles.

The Federal Government has been advised to recruit experts who will serve as custom attachés to inspect goods coming into the country with a view to preventing contrabands brought into the country.

Hard times await drug counterfeiters with the reactivation of the Federal Task Force on counterfeit and fake drugs by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Also, 17 states of the Federation have reactivated their state Task Force.

JIB went public when it was running short of funds and sold shares to the public, I remember buying about 200,000 shares then. That was in 1991. So as I said, it is a limited liability company quoted on the stock exchange and Plateau State Government has just 20 per cent holding in it while all the local government areas of the state jointly own six per cent. So in all, Plateau State Government and the local governments jointly own 26 per cent.

The recent disclosure by the Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Chief Mrs Pauline Tallen of her readiness to contest the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries against Governor Chief David Jonah Jang was another cause for disquiet on the politically troubled Plateau.

THE Appeal Court in Ibadan has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2007 elections in Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has declared that in the nearest future, Nigerians would celebrate the end of the menace of kidnapping in the country.

I GET distressed by many things written on the pages of newspapers on varied subjects spanning politics, the economy, education, relationships, religion and others. Often, I feel so agitated that I have felt the need to respond, even though I have very rarely done so.

Agriculture has been described as a viable business that can earn the country the needed foreign exchange if only the government can increase budgetary allocation to the sector and making sure that whatever is budget is judiciously used.

THE desperation of the major presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the party’s election ticket has widened the rift in the party leading to the creation of at least four major factions among the national officers of the party

Intrigues, power play and political maneuvering are at play in Ekiti State over the attempt by Governor Kayode Fayemi to constitute his cabinet Vanguard reliably gathered that Dr. Fayemi is making wider consultations with leaders of the party in the state and other stakeholders over his intention to assemble a formidable team and may finally submit names of his 15-member-cabinet to the state House of Assembly this week

The report by Akintolla Williams Deloitte on the four year financial statement of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has revealed how the former management of the Exchange may have defied the tenet of good corporate governance.

Mr. Ayo Philips popularly called AY, is the Chief Executive Officer of AY Art Link.
The artist who specialises in portrait painting spoke to Vanguard in Lagos recently.