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.

Family Physicians have decried the dearth of medical doctors in the country, lamenting the ratio of one doctor to 6,400 patients as against the World Health Organisation WHO, recommendation of one doctor to 600 patients

FRANCIS complained that he was having an embarrassing difficulty. He said in the last few days, he had been experiencing a burning sensation whenever he was urinating, but now, in addition to the pain, a yellowish white discharge was oozing from his male sex organ. Alarmed, the young man confided in some of his male friends who just laughed and waved his concerns aside.