KIDNEY DISEASE: Expert highlights preventive strategies
With the rising incidences of kidney diseases among Nigerians, an expert has warned against unnecessary use of pain killers, consumption of fatty foods and high intake of salt. A Senior Consultant Nephrologist at the Transplant Institutes, Apollo Hospitals, India, Prof. Devendra Pumar Agarwal who was a guest lecturer at a 2-Day Continuing Medical Education, CME, organised for Nigerian doctors in Lagos by Apollo Hospitals, stressed the need for people to focus more on prevention of kidney disease than treatment and management of the disorder.
New date for logistics, transport and port management confab
THE maiden edition of the annual logistics, transport and port management conference being organised by DU& T Consulting, a Lagos-based consulting firm, is now to hold on March 15 and 16, 2016 instead of the earlier announced dates.The two-day conference, scheduled to hold at the Conference Hall of the Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos will have as its theme, Improving Transportation, Logistics and Port Service Delivery and Effectiveness in West Africa.
New Urban Agenda: UN Deputy Scribe, others charge African leaders on planning
THE UN Deputy Secretary-General, Housing and Sustainable Urban, Kumaresh Misra and other stakeholders in the ongoing United Nations Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting in Nigeria, last week called on African leaders to develop rural areas to solve challenges of urban cities in the continent.
‘Total FPSO will boost local content devt.’
The fabrication of the Floating Production Storage Off-loading, FPSO, for Total E&P Egina oilfield project is estimated to boost local content development up from current levels of 10 percent to about 15 percent.
Nigeria, Ireland to strengthen ties via technology transfer
The Republic of Ireland has joined hands with the Nigerian Government to use technology transfer actualize speedy development in Nigeria.
54 laws must be amended for business reform —EXPERT
AMIDST the current economic crunch in the country, a team of consultants, under the auspices of Department for International Development, DFID, told the Senate yesterday that if Nigeria must be an economic destination and attractive to investors, it must amend or repeal 54 of its existing laws.
