As the cost of kidney dialysis services in the country continue to shoot through the roof, a renal technologist, Mr. Olutade Ojebali, is advocating for setting up of more dialysis centres in the country to enable significant reduction of the cost of the service.

The Federal Government is to build a new pipeline to facilitate gas supply to the Olorunsogo power station in Ogun. The Minister for Power, Prof Barth Nnaji said at the end of a two-day tour of some power plants in the South West, that the pipeline would assist the station to realise its full capacity of 335 megawatts before the end of the year.

Pharmacists in the country have been prevailed upon to review their roles and prove their worth by exhibiting the deserved level of professionalism in their practice, despite the harsh nature of the terrain in which they operate.

WHILE many humans are yet to understand the functionality of the world’s number one internet tablet, the Apple iPad, a group of orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo in the United States of America, are already exhibiting their dexterity on the gadget.

Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission, ADSIEC, has postponed indefinitely local government elections earlier scheduled for the last week of this month.

A middle-aged man, Adah Emanuel, who has allegedly been parading himself as an Army Captain has been arrested by men of the Nigerian Army in Michika, Adamawa State, with substances believed to be cannabis sativa (Indian hemp).

The father of Chelsea and Nigeria star John Mikel Obi was Monday found alive in Kano State. Michael Obi was last seen on 12 August in the city of Jos, where his car was found last Wednesday.

The Planning Committee of the 21st Quadrangular Games, to be hosted by the Lagos Country Club in November, has announced HotSports, a foremost sports marketing and production company, as the marketing consultants for the annual games.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on employers, labour and other stakeholders to ensure the success of Employees’ Compensation Act, ECA, designed to compensate employees or their dependants in case of death, injury, disease or disability arising out of, or in the course, of employment.

THE National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers, NATCOMS, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and stakeholders in the telecommunication sector not to sell Nigeria’s first National carrier, NITEL-MTEL, to Globacom’s Dr Mike Adenuga as doing so would mean granting him too many favours to the detriment of other operators.