Rhesus Solution Initiative (RSI), a Lagos-based non-governmental agency last week marked the 2012 Rhesus Factor Day with the objective of creating and promoting public awareness on rhesus factor. The day was for participants to know their blood group and rhesus status to prevent incompatibility during child birth for women and during blood transfusion for both sexes.

The boisterous assurances by the last Governor of Central bank, Chukwuma Soludo that the Nigerian economy and banking sub-sector were firmly immune from the world’s economic meltdown still remain fresh in our memories.

PALPABLE fear has gripped residents of Ibusa community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, especially the bank workers in the town, as some faceless bandits have allegedly written a letter and pasted same in front of the banks, announcing their impending attack on the banks again as a revenge mission.

A pressure group, UNUEDO Foundation, has appealed to politicians in Edo State not to turn the state into a war zone.

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, yesterday described health professionals as vital to the attainment of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, in Nigeria The Minister made this known at the 15th Mandatory Training Workshop on Environment, Laboratory and Standards, organized by the Institute of Public Analysts of Nigeria in Abuja.

DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has charged Nigerian children to be prepared to take the world stage for the good of themselves and the country in general.

Enforcement of regulations that ensures proper costing of buildings by professional will go a long way in curtailing the incidents of building collapse in the country.

Across the long tide of human civilization, there have been many ebbs and flows, many advances and retreats, many great strides forward and many shattered opportunities. But there has never been a time quite like the present, because history does not repeat itself, and because we produce progress.

NEWS about events in Edo State have dominated the air waves and captured the front pages of newspapers in the last few weeks. Unfortunately, they have been, generally, news of negative happenings and fatalities, such as the accident involving the convoy of the State Governor, the murder of his Principal Private Secretary and the death of a number of people during the demonstrations on the security situation and against the purported conspiracy between INEC and the PDP to rig the forthcoming election in the State.

Ogun State government has concluded plans to fully automate the operations of the state’s Bureau of Lands and Survey, in order to enhance its efficiency and ensure higher productivity.

GOVERNOR Godswill Akpabio has predicted that Team Nigeria would surpass all previous attempts at the Olympics at the London 2012 Olympics which begins on July 23.

BY now, readers of this column will have noticed that I keep coming back to the issue of MDRI in the last few editions of the column. If we are not done with it, then we are not done; pardon me. I will now share with you, my readers, excerpts from the Afrinvest 2011 Insurance Sector Report titled Trotting at the Pace of Reforms.

The insurance sector has consistently been considered as the weakest link in the Anti Money Laundering/Combating Financial Terrorism, AML/CFT chain, the National Insurance Commission has said.

President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday said despite the several challenges the country is facing as a nation it would continue to remain one indivisible country.

The Nigerian Navy has successfully completed the construction of a locally made vessel, the first of its kind in the West African subregion, the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral OláIbrahim said.