Trans Fatty Acids Trans fats are essentially artifi cial fats that have been chemically altered to resemble saturated fats. Trans fats are typically found in shortening, margarine and the majority of commercially baked goods and snack foods.

To curtail effects of pneumonia and other pneumococcal disorders in the country, the Delta State government in collaboration with Pfizer Nigeria Ltd, are vaccinating 2,000 children with the pneumococcal vaccine, PCV 13, in the Asaba, Kwale and Isoko camps for flood victims in the state.

Determined to provide better life for the blind and visually impaired in Nigeria, last week, Standard Chartered Bank commissioned a music school for students of the Vocational School of the Nigerian Society for the Blind, Oshodi, Lagos. About one million Nigerians are blind and three million visually impaired.

THE National Executive Committee, NEC, of the National Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, has approved Pharm Olumide Akintayo as the 20th President of the PSN. Akintayo emerged President last week, at the Annual General Meeting of the 85th Annual National Conference of the PSN held in Abeokuta Ogun State.

The national leader of Action Congress of Nigeria,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be conferred with the traditional title Aare Ago of Egbaland on 19 November.