OMEN of Amakohia-ubi community in Owerri west local government are currently  planning another protest to Imo Government House over the continued stay of herdsmen in and around their farms. 

NATIONAL Orientation Agency in collaboration with the UNICEF has embarked on rural campaign in some Abia communities to enlighten the rural dwellers of the dangers in using petroleum product like petrol for hand washing, warning that it is not a safe method.

THE Minister of Power, Housing and Infrastructure,  Babatunde Fashola has said that Nigeria lost her best opportunity for massive development to stomach infrastructure between 2007 and 2015.

With the world ranking showing that Nigeria underperforms global and regional peers on key levers of logistics and supply chain efficiency, Africa Resource Centre for Supply Chain, a collaboration of Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria and Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, are calling for private sector collaboration in Nigeria to strengthen public health supply chain especially in availability of vaccines, essential medicines, and medical products.

A NEW survey conducted by the  Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN,  shows that only 16 per cent of  pharmacists in the country have received training on substance abuse disorders, while  about 50,000 renew their licence  annually.

The National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, has decried  alleged disengagement of some of their members who have been working with Chevron Nigeria Limited as casual staff for four years after their training by the management of the company.

FRENCH President, Emmanuel Macron, who is billed to arrive in Nigeria today, will tomorrow (July 4) commission a new Alliance Francaise Centre in Lagos.

Nigeria and other African countries need increased trans-regional trade  to fast-track economic development and create more jobs. Top executives of Standard Bank Group made this observation yesterday while speaking at the bank’s  trans-regional trade conference held in Lagos.

Bayelsa State branch of Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has called for the removal of service chiefs and a total overhauling of the nation’s security apparatus following the indiscriminate killings in parts of the country by suspected herdsmen.

The Endometriosis Support Group Nigeria, ESGN, has announced the first ever National Dysmenorrhea  Survey for secondary school girls in Nigeria.

Asaba 2018 African  Senior Athletics Championship technical director, Yussuf Alli has expressed optimism that Delta State will pass the scheduled inspection exercise by the Confederation of African Athletics, CAA this weekend.

Community Pharmacists under the auspices of  the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, Lagos State branch have blamed the rising incidences of drug abuse on failure of the Federal government to shutdown open drug markets across the country.

The Deputy Director General, Kayode Fayemi Campaign Council, Bamidele Faparusi, has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of making surreptitious moves to   procure a N5 billion loan to fund the  July 14, governorship election.

ABIA State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Anthony Ogbizi, has charged the newly promoted officers of the command to demonstrate strict professionalism in the discharge of their duties.

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, yesterday said it had secured only three convictions out of 34 cases of gender-based violence it brought before the courts since 2015.