ZYLORIC may have been prescribed to many patients by doctors, but the drug is not everybody’s friend. If you are in doubt, ask one of its victims -Mr Charles Oben. Like the petal of a flower dying before its full blossom, Oben has visited the land of the dead and lost his skin beyond recognition.

IN effort to doggedly put a stop to incidences of fake medicines in Nigeria, the Federal Government has set up a committee to fashion out strategies that would sanitise drug distribution even as it has directed all manufacturers of anti malaria medicines to protect their products with scratch codes by January 2012.

If you are reading this and are yet to register your phone line(s), it may just be too late, because barring any extension, the SIM card registration exercise embarked upon by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in conjunction with all the telecom operators in Nigeria, ends today.

A 26-year-old man, Micheal Adigun, like many fresh graduates, looked forward to getting a good job after serving the mandatory one year Youth Service. Having searched for a white collar job without luck in his home town, the Higher National Diploma (HND) graduate of the Universal College of Technology, Ile-Ife, Osun state, came to Lagos, where he put up with an uncle in Abule -Egba area of Lagos.

The question on the lips of every one who visited the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti last week, on sighting one Blessing Eke, was, what could have warranted her snuffing life out of a baby who did not beg to come to the world?

The outline of a large and ambitious eurozone rescue plan is taking shape, reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington suggest.

Ms Prisca Soares, Secretary General of Africa Insurers Association (AIO) has listed untapped and new areas in the insurance industry to include, SMEs, personal lines, agricultural insurance, funeral, as well as micro insurance.

AWKA-Anambra State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal II, sitting in Awka, was Tuesday told that an assistant secretary of the tribunal (names withheld) allegedly smuggled a document into the case file pending at the tribunal with the alleged connivance of a petitioner.

BENIN-The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Monday, upturned the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal, Asaba, which confirmed Mr. Frank Enekorogha, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate as winner of the election to represent the Burutu Federal Constituency of Delta State.

Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN Plc recapitalization plans have continued to receive support from various stakeholders, as capital market operators, weekend, said the choice of credible core investors has made the Bank a good offering.