Girls and boys who develop unhealthy eating or extreme dieting habits as adolescents are likely to carry those potentially dangerous weight control practices into adulthood.

Many people have lost their lives today due to what they considered as ‘minor injuries’ to the head. These people no doubt lost their lives due to ignorance of the fact that no injury on the head whether minor or major should be left untreated.

As the standard of education continues to nove dive from the primary, secondary to tertiary level, it will come as cheering news to Nigerians that there is a tertiary institution – a university, that is doing every thing within its power not to toe this line of decay.

The United Nations General Assembly on 22 December 2008, resolved to recognise Sickle Cell Anaemia as a public health problem deserving of national and international support and declared 19th June as World Sickle Cell Day.

FORTY TWO lecturers from 14 Colleges of Education across the country have been trained on Quality Assurance to strengthen the capacity of the Family Life and Emerging Health Issues (FLEHI) as well as ensure the effective implementation of the FLEHI course across the six -geopolitical zones of the country.

June 16th every year, was declared the International Day of the African Child by the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU) now African Union (AU) in 1990 following the sacrifice of some black children in Soweto in the then Apartheid South Africa in June 1981. The children were protesting the introduction of Afrikaans as the official language of learning in their schools. During the protest, over 500 children aged between 10 and 20 years were murdered in cold blood and thousands injured by government agents.

For Domnic Olufosoye, inspite of the boisterous nature of Lagos, the commercial city is still considered the safest place to live in Nigeria.“I don’t belong to any political party, but I am a fan of Fashola because of how he is transforming Lagos, everything is working, even the security is good. The former police commissioner, Akpoyibo helped in building this sound security,”Olufosoye opined during a free readers’ discussion at a newspapers stand in satellite town recently.

Wrigley, a global leader in confections recently bagged an endorsement for Orbit Sugarfree Chewing Gum by the Nigerian Dental Association. This was disclosed during their stakeholders meeting held in Abuja with the theme “Changing The Image Of Dentistry”.

A child friendly organisastion, AFRIBABY Initiative has condemned the killing of an albino baby in Mbalagh Village, Benue State calling on government at all levels to urgently activate their information dissemination machineries

Procter & Gamble, leading consumer products manufacturer, has concluded, on its one-month long initiative of charity driven sales in which consumers of Pampers, Ariel and Always were given opportunity to help educate orphans in fifteen orphanages across Lagos just by purchasing any of these products.

All is set for commissioning of the multi- million naira state-of-the-art private wards project embarked upon by Fidson Healthcare Plc as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta.

The Cross River State,Governor Liyel Imoke hosted President Goodluck Jonathan in the idyllic natural environment of the Obudu Mountain Resort recently. With all the fun and relaxation over, it’s back to work for Senator Liyel Imoke.

Before 1999, the National Electric Power Authority,NEPA, had the sole monopoly of power generation and distribution in Nigeria. While there were suggestions on how to break that grip, Lagos State became the first state to do so with the initiation of Enron Power Project on August 1, 2009.

BETWEEN 6am and 9:30am of Tuesday, October 4, 2005, the atmosphere in Ojuelegba, was its usual boisterous self.

Twenty years after the world recorded the first case of HIV in the United States of America, Nigeria cut the attention of the world.