HARD drug peddling and abuse is a worldwide phenomenon. It was in recognition of this fact that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, was established. It facilitates the sharing of information on the drug menace among countries. The Vienna, Austria-based UNODC in June this year, reported that in 2020, 270 million people […]

CONTRARY to fears that the Muhammadu Buhari administration was set to declare an all-out, genocidal war in the South East, the security forces appear to have applied a less kinetic approach which is reducing the high-level insecurity in the geopolitical zone. In June, the president had raised tensions when he granted a rare interview to […]

THE question of who will fix our health system has become germane as it appears that those given the mandate to do so have abdicated their responsibility. President Muhammadu Buhari has not shown any interest in fixing our health system. After six years in office, he has continued to fly to foreign countries for medical […]

THE Federal Government and the health authorities should assiduously respond to the alarm raised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, over the creeping distress threatening the industry as a result of the abuse of the Drug Revolving Fund, DRF, by tertiary medical institutions. President of the Society, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, at a briefing organised […]

ON August 10, 2021, Vanguard, once again, raised the alarm over the erosion cataclysm in Southern Nigeria. It narrated in graphic details how residents of Ndokwa East in Delta State go to the farm or market, only to return to meet their homes swept away by flood and gully erosion. The Onyah enclave, Utuoku, Okpai, […]