AS the 63rd World Health Assembly, WHA, opens today at the Palais de Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Nigeria is billed to showcase her advancements with the National Health Strategic Development Plan that is designed to enable the country achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, on health.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has raised an alarm over alleged increasing importation of arms and ammunition into the country through ports and called on the nation’s security agencies to checkmate the activities of unscrupulous importers and shipping companies before they distabilise the nation.

THE Lagos State government has so far recovered over N20 billion from unremitted and under-remitted taxes within the last one year, saying she would intensify its noose on taming tax defaulters, even as the government is targeting N17 billion per month to finance the current N204 billion budget of the state.

THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have thrown their weight behind the Employees’ Compensation Bill which is at the final stage of being passed by the Senate.

The Action Congress, AC, has called on all public office holders who are facing corruption and other charges in court to vacate their posts, as the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, did last week.