Marijuana, safer than painkillers — STUDY
BELIEVE it or not, but you could be safer ingesting marijuana -the most used illegal drug on Earth - than a prescription pain killer drug. Findings by a brand new first-of-its-kind global study conducted at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, USA, showed that prescription pain killers, though legal, could be the deadliest drug of all.
Ex-militants give FG ultimatum on unpaid allowances
UGHELLI—NIGER Delta ex-militants Phase II leaders, Tuesday, issued a one month ultimatum to the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, to release the unpaid allowances to members of the various camps in the phase or risk another round of crisis in the region.
Reliance on insurance brokers alone not healthy — Soladoye
Managing Director of Riskguard Africa Nigeria Limited Mr. Yemi Soladoye, has warned that reliance on brokers alone to market insurance products on behalf of insurers could lead to market stagnation and unhealthy competition in the sector.
Jega raises alarm over alleged campaign of calumny
CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, raised the alarm over an alleged sponsored campaign of calumny against his person and a planned public display of hostility against the commission by a section of the media.
69-yr-old woman asks FHA to refund N74,000 housing fund
PORT HARCOURT—AGED Mrs. Beatrice Oduda has asked the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, to refund the N74,000 she committed to the National Housing Programme, NHP, 20 years ago.
Will America ever erase the colour line?
A YEAR to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the benediction of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, America reached for a brush, dipped it in white paint and freshened the racial colour line of which King’s predecessor, W. E. B. Du Bois, spoke so eloquently 60 years earlier in The Souls of Black Folk.
