Stakeholders worry over proposal to ban more drugs

Stakeholders worry over proposal to ban more drugs

FOLLOWING an alleged Federal government proposal to include eight additional drugs on the Import Prohibition List (IPL), the average Nigerian who is currently spending 23 per cent of his/her income on drugs, may have to brace up to purchase these same drugs and others yet to be determined at even higher prices.
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Protect your votes, Ngige charges Onitsha traders

Protect your votes, Ngige charges Onitsha traders

By  Dennis Agbo AWKA—ACTION Congress, AC, gubernatorial Candidate in the Anambra State, February 6 election, Dr. Chris Ngige, at  the weekend, took his three-point manifesto of  public safety and security; infrastructural development; and social services and human resources development to the Ogbaru Shoe Manufacturers Market, and Ogbaru  Main Market, Onitsh. He asked the Onitsha businessmen […]

FG’s call for alternative fuel spark angry reactions

FG’s call for alternative fuel spark angry reactions

CONTROVERSY has continued to trail the call by the Federal Government for Nigerians to consider the usage of alternative fuel as a means to solving the lingering fuel scarcity currently rocking the nation and crippling businesses.

NCAT instructors sue Rector over retirement

NCAT instructors sue Rector over retirement

By Kenneth Ehigiator The battle line may have been drawn between seven instructors of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Zaria, and the Rector, Capt. Adebayo Araba, as the former are now at the Federal High Court, Kaduna, to challenge their compulsory retirement late last year Already, the court has fixed hearing in the […]

UNICEF sends relief materials to Jos

UNICEF sends relief materials to Jos

By Chioma Obinna In response to Plateau State’s request for humanitarian support, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has donated two truckloads of relief items for victims of Jos crisis, weekend, even as it promised to deliver more supplies in the coming days. According to UNICEF’s partners, there are 42,430 people, many of whom are […]

Nigercem sues Ebonyi govt

Nigercem sues Ebonyi govt

By   Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—The Nigeria Cement Company Plc (Nigercem), Nkalagu, Ebonyi State, has dragged the Ebonyi State Government before a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, challenging the government’s revocation of its Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O), lease of Nigercem and the setting up of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the operations of of the […]