If we can produce our drugs locally with raw materials sourced from our environment, definitely the cost of drugs, and subsequently, money spent on healthcare, will reduce. So researchers like Dr. (Mrs) Uche Kanife, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biological Science, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, are working hard to see that they get local alternatives to some imported drugs using medicinal plants and fungal organisms. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Lagos, Kanife talks about her work on the ergot fungus, Claviceps purpurea from which an important drug is made. Excerpts:

Why do we think the way we do? Why do we feel the way we do? Why do we act or behave the way we do? What determines our results in life? The quality of our lives is determined by our internal guidance system. Your internal guidance system is the regulator of your entire life; everything in your life rises or falls on it.

After the official nnouncement last week Thursday at Abuja by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Executive Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde and Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, that from 2013, Computer- Based Test (CBT), will be used to conduct UTME, had since received reactions from stakeholders in the sector.

NO fewer than 21 states have now fully embraced the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, a fall-out of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, which discontinued the flawed Pay As You Go, PAYG, scheme.

A lawmaker, representing Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency I, at the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), Hon. Dayo Saka Fafunmi, has tasked Lagos State University Faculty of Law students to be law-abiding citizens and be good ambassadors of their school, wherever they go.