NIGERIA yesterday observed this year’s remembrance for the country’s fallen heroes who died in active service as members of the Nigerian Armed Forces. This came at a time the family of a distressed former military personnel, Kingsley Iberi, who claims to have been wrongfully dismissed from the Nigerian Army, was lamenting and telling their tale of woe to every sympathetic ear.

Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, a new exhibition about scientific and social innovations that are ridding the world of ancient afflictions, opens at the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with The Carter Centre in New York City today even as a total of 126 Guinea worm cases were reported worldwide in 2014, from the remaining four endemic nations of Chad, Mali, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Eating out at fast food joints seems to be a way of life for most families, but one study has discovered a link between consumption of fast foods and a decline in testing ability among grade-school children. So detrimental are the changes in their body, say …

The Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, has accused the Lagos State Government of frustrating its efforts to distribute the Nigerian Insurance Industry Database, NIID, device to law enforcement agents in the state.

Federal Government has been urged to protect genuine poultry farmers from going under as their products are now constantly adulterated leading to lost of millions of naira in revenue earnings.