Fatigue and loss of functional capacity have often been implicated as some of the most distressing side effects reported by cancer patients and usually more severe while patients are receiving treatment.

SENATOR Suleiman Adokwe represents Nasarawa South Senatorial Zone in the Senate and he is the Chairman, Senate Services Committee, the committee which looks after the welfare of senators. In this interview, he speaks on hsi duties among other issues

POLICE authorities in Ondo State have swung into action to unravel the mystery behind the pouring of acid on a former member of the state Task Force on Forest Reserve, Mr Adetutu Ajisafe, by some hoodlums.

WHENEVER the Christmas season approaches, the Igbos naturally look forward to it with great enthusiasm.

The final of the maiden edition of Innovation/Invention Exhibition and Award took place at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja last week. At the end of the event organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology (FMST), Berekotry Detergent Limited emerged the grand prize winner of N1,000,000.00 (one million naira) and a plaque, followed by Nigeria Air Force Technology Institute, Kaduna, and tied at the third position were two Aba-based outfits – National Animal Research and Best Nigeria Ltd.

Saddened by the high level poor state of health of most citizens of the country, the Dean, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Professor Rafiu Okuneye, has called on government, teachers and other stakeholders in the education sector to emphasize the need for qualitative physical and health education, especially in the basic schools curricula.

THE 2nd Defendant/Applicant submitted that no court can make an order capable of turning a citizen into an outlaw; as this can lead to a state of general break down of law and order and if the current trend of rushing to court for injunctive orders restraining criminal prosecution by some powerful individuals is not quickly halted by this Court, then Nigeria shall soon be witnessing a situation where armed robbery and murder suspects will obtain orders to restrain the Police from arresting, investigating and prosecuting them.

The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike has expressed concern over the delay in the take-off of infrastructure development in the nine new universities in the country.

They can be formed, reformed, un-formed, negotiated and re-negotiated. In the lifetime of most of us here, for instance, the Soviet Empire has collapsed into middling, hardly remarkable, entities; Yugoslavia dis-integrated into a collection of warring states and statelets; Germany evolved into one country from two; Ethiopia went the other way, becoming two countries instead of one, (indeed, Menelik II had sold Djibouti to the French about 116 years ago to finance the modernization of Addis Ababa); Sudan has similarly become two countries (in which further splintering cannot be ruled out) and the United Kingdom itself could be reduced to England and Wales in 2014 depending on the outcome of the proposed referendum on Scottish Independence.

MAKURDI—Two weeks after Lassa Fever claimed the life of a medical doctor and two of his patients in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, two children have been admitted with the virus at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, BSUTH.