ENUGU-A medical practitioner, Prof. Sam Ohaegbulam, has said that unless the Federal Government took urgent steps to improve the remuneration of medical doctors and equip the nation’s hospitals with modern facilities to enhance their performance, the brain drain that has hit the nation’s health sector in recent years will continue.

ENUGU-South-East governors met with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, members of the National Assembly and ministers from the zone for over four hours in Enugu Sunday without disclosing their resolutions.

ENUGU-last minute rush for the Muslim festival of Ed-il-Kabir turned tragic on two major federal highways in Enugu State at the weekend as no fewer than four persons lost their lives in two separate auto crashes.

A survey of trends in African businesses in October has shown a mixed bag. Private sector business confidence index for the African continent showed that the manufacturing sector was contracting while the non-manufacturing sector was expanding.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, weekend, said the national honour of the Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, to be conferred on him by President Goodluck Jonathan on November 14 would spur him on to greater service for the state and country.

Port Harcourt- South-South Youth Leaders Forum has faulted the planned introduction of economic measures by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan which, it noted, would further impoverish Nigerians.

MAKURDI-Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, has decried the rising wave of abuse of expectorants and cough syrups as stimulants among youths who have resorted to such drugs to get “high”.

Nigerian Economic Summit will begin on Thursday at Abuja, as President Goodluck Jonathan leads top government functionaries, cabinet ministers, global and local business leaders and members of the diplomatic corps to the opening ceremony of the 17th Nigerian Economic Summit at the Transcorp Hilton.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, weekend denied that the NNPC made illegal deduction from the sale of crude oil as alleged by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives ( NEITI).

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, warned that incessant crisis and insecurity in the country will continue to scare away investors and breed poverty among Nigerians.

Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has assured Rivers people of adequate security following recent reports of armed robbery activities around banks in the state capital, Port Harcourt.

Port Harcourt- Alarmed by the sudden increase in the wage bill of Rivers State, Governor Chibuike Amaechi has ordered immediate inquiry into the bloated nominal roll and salary increase of the workers.

In order to encourage international companies to get quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Isa Yuguda, has called on the federal government to make it a mandatory condition for foreign entities to be publicly quoted before being considered for award of contracts.

Osogbo-Osun State Deputy-Governor, Mrs. Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, has estimated that one in every five women faces some form of violence during their lifetime, in some cases leading to serious injury or death.

LAGOS – THE indefinite suspension slammed on five senior customs officers at the Tin Can Island Port, TCIP, command, Lagos of the Nigeria Customs Service, following alleged loss of revenue through unwholesome release of certain goods at the Port last September, has been lifted.