Imo State Government has commenced the demolition of structures within 10 metres radius of the main roads in Orlu Local Government Area.

Twenty years after the conceptualisation of a secretariat for the Lagos State Branch of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers , NIESV, the two-storey building jointly owned by the Branch and its national body in the highbrow Ikeja CBD, Alausa, will now be commissioned in January 2012.

Since signing on to the Kyoto Protocol, Nigeria has been making efforts at developing the roadmap for tackling the threats and impacts of Climate Change.

In what seems like moving the country’s herbal medicine practice forward, Pax Herbal Clinic & Research Laboratories has established the first-ever natural medicine hospital and pharmacovigilance centres in two locations in Lagos.

SEXUAL and reproductive health and rights must be promoted in Nigeria if the incidence of maternal death from childbirth is to be controlled. Experts who called for promotion of these issues say ensuring access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services for women, especially young women, would effectively address the prevailing reproductive health challenges.

Worried about the rising incidence of diabetes in Nigeria, President of the Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dr. Afokoghene Isiavwe, has called on the Federal Government to introduce a diabetes prevention education programme in the country.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has called for the cooperation of the Institute of Capital Market Registrars, ICMR, in ridding the capital market of infractions and also in building a virile stock market for the Nigerian economy.

After so many years of neglect of ageing and dilapidated facilities at the paediatric department of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, help came its way last week from Total Nigeria Plc.

Port Harcourt – O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation has distributed free Procter and Gamble Water purifiers for sachet water to the people of Ahoada West, Obau-Odual and Asari-Toru communities in Rivers State.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has threatened to commence a nationwide clampdown on bakers, who distribute bread products without wraps and labels just as it warned millers to comply with set standards of Good Manufacturing Practice, GMP, and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points, HACCP, guidelines and requirements of the Agency or face the wrath of the law.