AHEAD of the coronation of the Olu of Warri designate, Prince Godfrey Ikenwoli Emiko, engineers, surveyors, architects, designers and planners of Itsekiri ethnic nationality, have been summoned to an emergency meeting.

TEACHERS in Nigeria, yesterday joined their counterparts in other parts of the world to mark the World Teachers Day, and made several demands from government on welfare and other conditions of service aimed at improving the standard of the teaching profession in the country.

In a move to rekindle hope for persons living with cancer, experts say children can be cured for life after treatment even as they urged government, philanthropists and corporate organisations to support cancer patients as treatment of the disease could leave families in penury.

REPRODUCTIVE health experts recently concluded a week long meeting where evidence-based recommendations on fertility care and research were made to the World Health Organisation, WHO.

With over 250,000 Nigerians affected by cancer every year, the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, has said that its new Cancer Research and Training Centre will provide training and quality researches into the rising cases of cancer in the country.