Pandemonium broke out in the early hours of Sunday, as medical students of the College of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, CMUL/LUTH, went on rampage to protest the recurrent incidences of robbery attacks and other malicious attacks on the premises.

Worried by the delay in the full implementation of the National Drug Distribution Guidelines, NDDG, launched February 2013, Community pharmacists have urged the Federal Government to commence action on the issue without delay.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 44, penultimate week, donated various medical equipment to Randle General Hospital, Surulere in Lagos.

When I was growing up in the South-Eastern Nigerian city of Owerri, I remember once when unspeakable crimes were committed, a poor boy was kidnapped, killed for ritual, and cut up like an animal. These acts signified a very dark time for my people. Eventually a group of men were arrested in connection with the crimes, they were swiftly charged, judged, convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad. I remember, albeit with the immature mind of a teenager, that many people accepted and even welcomed this verdict because of the gravity of the crimes the men were convicted of.

TWO pharmacists, Pharm. Ogbonnaya Emmanuel Nduka and Clifford Osonduagwuike Ogbonna, have been delisted from the Pharmacists’ Register for various offences bordering on gross professional misconduct.