SOON after emerging victorious in the 2015 presidential election, President-elect Mohammadu Buhari, was immediately taken to task over the fortunes of the nation’s fledging heath sector.

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. It is common knowledge that the condition of foods from the farms and handling by food processors are major determinants of nutritional status of a given society. But how safe is food in the country today?

Current research suggests that ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes and moves to the ovaries, the twin organs that produce a woman’s eggs and the main source of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. Treatments for ovarian cancer have become more effective in recent years, with the best results seen when the disease is found early.

Have you ever watched children play around your neighbourhood? Can you recall how the boys among them play their games? Unfortunately, some children like 10-year-old Abdurrahman Alabi have never experienced such and may never experience it if nothing urgently is done to salvage his failing heart.

THE Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has approved a new product that protects prostate cancer patients from the side effects of radiation. Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in men in Nigeria.