A syndicate which specialised in cloning fast moving drugs, among which are locally manufactured anti malaria and pain relief drugs, has been smashed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration, NAFDAC, in Lagos, following the arrest of one of its suspected members.

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Residents of Oworoshoki area of Lagos, are yet to overcome the shock of the lightening which struck Celestina Farotide, a Senior Secondary School, SSS 3 student of Muslim College, dead, Tuesday.

For sometime now, residents of Adekunle Street, Isolo Lagos, have been going through untold torture in the hands of robbers who operate on motorcycles. Majority of the victims are women, whose hand bags were snatched, immediately they alighted from commercial buses at their designated bus-stops. Some of them reportedly sustained severe injuries in the process.

Like a straight arrow that knows its target and ready to pierce without missing, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, the founder of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), replies his critics on several allegations reported in the dailies recently. As his voice rang heavily through the tape in this interview, the Chairman of the committee for the resuscitation of Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, reveals how the idea of the new UPN was mooted and why he has not involved some stake-holders in the region in the current arrangement.

The world of infertility is full of compassionate people who have dealt with the struggle of infertility with couples on a deep, personal level. They have felt so touched by their experiences and challenges that they have pursued this career path with passion as is the case of Dr. Abayomi Ajayi, Managing Director/Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Nordica Fertility Centre, Lagos.

All Praise is due to Alláh, We praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our own evils and our own bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Alláh, he is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no god but Alláh, the Only One without any partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad, SAW, is His servant, and His messenger.

I have doubts whether a woman can commit rape; the reason is that a man has to be aroused sexually to be able to have sex with a woman. If a woman tells a man that he must have sex with her, it won’t work because the man will be so frightened and disorientated that he won’t really be able to do it. Under that circumstance, the man won’t be able to be in the proper physical mood to be able to have sex with the woman.

Umike is village in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The community is at the brink of becoming extinct, no thanks to the gully erosion that is ravaging the area. Several houses in the area have been swallowed by the erosion and the fear of the people is that if nothing is urgently done, the entire community might soon be washed away.

THERE is no doubt the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria is a time bomb waiting to explode. But that the problem of joblessness is being compounded by expatriate quota abuse with appropriate government agencies not doing what is needed to stop it, is of serious concern to the National Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW.

The relevance of education in any given society cannot be overemphasized, thus, the reasons behind the popular aphorisms of the world’s great men like Nelson Mandela who once said that “Education is the most powerful weapon which one can use to change the world.”