Unrestricted access to medicines through the open drug and inadequate regulatory enforcement markets have remained the root cause of rampant drug misuse and abuse in the society, community pharmacists have said.

Many of the elders and indigenes of Kogi State, who were privy to his underground effort hold him in high esteem in helping to actualise the dream and aspirations of hundreds of thousands

Lack of funds, double taxation and other factors have been identified as the major challenges affecting Nigeria’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG sector.

THE Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, yesterday called on officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to take crime scene management  seriously.

OGONI—THREE years after the people of Kporghor community, Tai Local Government Area, Rivers State, were sacked from their homeland allegedly by armed youths from Ogu/Bolo over land tussle in 2014, many villagers have refused to return, while returnees live in mortal fear.

Seplat Petroleum Development Company has rated Nigeria high on oil and gas reserves as well as investment.

Enugu Rangers midfielder, Godwin Aguda has revealed why he turned down offers to switch to Rivers United during the transfer window.

THE Middle East is the most geopolitically sensitive area of the world, with a population comprising of mostly poor people, and considerable wealth in the hands of few. To meet its demands for workforce, the area engages in the import of poor workers mainly from India, Bangladesh and Nigeria.

It is not as big as Egina, but it would bring 32,000 barrels per day production, plus quite a lot of gas, 3.5 million cubic metre per day of gas.

THE Republic of Ghana has become a sovereign shareholder in  Africa Finance Corporation, AFC and is set to invest  $50 million commitment to purchase AFC equity.

UPENEKANG—WITH less than one year to the next general elections in the country, the Akwa Ibom State Government has, through the local government areas intensified sensitisation of the rural people on the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise across the state.

Despite reduction in militancy activities across the nation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, disclosed that a total of 1,005 pipeline points were vandalized in the last one year.

Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria AWAM, the umbrella body of private sector participation otherwise known as PSP in refuse collection in Lagos State, is at loggerhead with a splinter group of the association that calls itself Concerned Waste Collectors in Lagos over disagreement on the state government’s decision to exclude them from collecting domestic waste.

A  Nigerian Germany-based medical practitioner, Dr. Alanna Ebigbo, has donated a diagnostic facility, an endoscopy machine to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu state.

As part of its efforts to protect the environment, help in cutting down on power consumption and saving teeming Nigerian consumers some money on electricity bills, the leading electrical appliances retailer, CoolWorld Retail Store, has introduced a new range of energy saving Haier Thermocool refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners into the Nigeria market.