The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has denied media reports alleging that its Director General, Dr. Paul Orhii was mobbed by irate youths in Makurdi over location of dump site for destruction of seized fake and substandard drugs.

ABUJA — THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Thursday urged President Goodluck to strip Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the national honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, he gave to him in 2011

Guinea worm disease, also known as dracunculiasis, is a parasitic infection caused by the nematode roundworm parasite Dracunculus medenisis.

THE leadership of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta Central Senatorial District, yesterday, described the purported suspension of Senator Pius Ewherido, acting National Chairman of the party, Chief Olisaemeka Akamukali and others, from the party as a ruse and complete sham.

The local governments in Kebbi State are virtually run as appendages of the state government with the party in control at the state government dictating the pace and policy at the grassroots.

Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, appealed to government at all levels to end casualisation of doctors’s employment in the country.

Women in Oil Initiative (WIO), yesterday, debunked allega- tions from the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, portraying it as scam.

He has kept faith with his childhood dreams of being an hotelier, today, Mr Richard ROBAIX, is the General Manager of the First Ibis Hotel in Nigeria, Ibis Lagos Airport. Robaix has over 30 years experience in the hospitality industry working in different parts of the world. He has spent seven of those years here in Nigeria working for major hotels. In this interview, he talks about the hospitality industry, the tourism industry and concluding that the new visa policy will boost the country’s tourism. Here is an excerpt .

Gunmen in their hundreds in a convoy of 50 Hilux vans attacked Marte Local Government Area of Borno State, yesterday evening, where they succeeded in burning down all public buildings like schools, hospitals/clinics, police stations and all telecommunications masts in the council headquarters.

Wife of the Chief of Naval Staff and President of Naval Officers Wives Association, NOWA, Vivian Ezeoba, yesterday in Lagos, called on Nigerian women to engage themselves in regular exercises.

Fellow parents, please remind me if there is anywhere in the world where the love for your gadgets outweighs that you have on your wards. Yet, it doesn’t take from the fact that our devices particularly the mobile phones have become so intimate and more or less a confidant. We feel safer now to have important and confidential information about us on the mobile phones now than any other place and I doubt if anyone would want such information mistakenly deleted.

Norton, the AntiVirus arm of internet security giants, Symantec has just released a new report based on the study it conducted on mobile users in the Middle East and Africa, revealing that almost two out of five online adults in the regions suffer mobile cybercrime.

MILITANT camps will not be allowed again anywhere in the Niger Delta region, just as the leadership of any community, where illegal bunkering is being carried out, will suffer the full wrath of the military.

Chairman, Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, Sulaiman Adebayo, has raised an alarm over incessant attacks on some villages in the local government by unidentified people from neighbouring Oyo State.

The Federal Government is set to tighten its regulatory frameworks aimed at minimising illegal mining activities in the country.