The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU has expressed dissatisfaction over the report of Yayale Ahmed Presidential Committee of Experts on Inter-Professional Relationship in the Public Health Sector, YAPCEPRPH.

Just over a year after the National Pharmacovigilance Centre of the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC issued a public alert over the association of Paracetamol, a.k.a. Acetaminophen, with risk of a rare but serious skin reaction, the US Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has again warned about the potential hazard of the commonly used analgesic.

Yenagoa—The Bayelsa State Government, yesterday, described as a “deliberate propagation of falsehood and the handiwork of mischief makers,” claims that the recent minor cabinet shake up in the state was due to rifts between Governor Seriake Dickson, President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan.

BENIN—THE member representing Etsako federal constituency of Edo State in the House of Representatives, Mr. Abubakar Momoh and a member of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr Rasaq Momoh, have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

PORT HARCOURT—Rivers State Elders Reconciliation Committee has called on all the aggrieved members, chieftains and elder statesmen of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state for urgent unity and reconciliation ahead of the forthcoming general elections, saying that it was too late for the party to fish for another candidate to fly its flag in the state.

Indeed this belief is a golden rule. It is not exclusive to politics. Even in the prominent fates that we adhere and believe in, a magnanimity in victory and gallantry in defeat especially, is what distinguishes real sportsmen from dilettantes and desperadoes. The outcome of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election in Adamawa State has exposed some politicians to belong to the latter category of sportsmen.

Regent and Chairman of WTC, Chief Tony Chuku, told Niger Delta Voice that the installation and coronation of Mr. Leslie Nyebuchi Eke through the instrumentality of a factional Oro-Evo Council of Chiefs was illegal, wondering why some chiefs in the area took to lawlessness.

In anticipation of new import policy by the federal government, importers and their agents have been making frantic efforts to clear their consignments from the nation’s ports to avoid being trapped.

OSOGBO—The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola would today lead Nigerians in the great road procession tagged “Nigerians Walk for Change.”

BENIN—Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that his government will cut costs and block leakages as part of measures to survive the expected drop in the revenue accruing to the state from the federation account as a result of the crash in the price of crude oil.

PORT HARCOURT— Nigerians in France have held a rally to drum up support for the election of President Goodluck Jonathan and the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike.

A team of scientists at Seattle BioMed is making progress on developing a genetically engineered version of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum that could act as a vaccine.

Computer Warehouse Group Plc (CWG) has been recognized as the Solution Provider of the Year and Renewals Partner for the Year in the entire West, East and Central Africa (WECA) at the annual VMware Channels award ceremony recently held recently in Johannesburg, South Africa.

United Bank for Africa, UBA Plc, has said that it has secured approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, to commence its rights issue.

LEADWAY Assurance Company Limited has denied reports alleging a default on its part to meet the obligations on a purported policy under which a Nike Oladunni Omorodion is claiming for loss suffered following fire damage to a property at 8 Aduke Close, Maryland, Lagos.