OGUN State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Zhejiang province of the Peoples Republic of China to promote bicameral economic cooperation and partnership between both states.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity, Ado Dogo Audu, has decried the unemployment rate in the country, saying his committee was set to meet President Umaru Yar’Adua over the matter as the primary responsibility of the issue.

PRELATE of Methodist Church Nigeria, Most Rev. Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday vowed to mobilise Christians in the country to resist with the last drop of their blood any attempt by any government to impose tax on the church, just as he condemned clergymen who do not pay their income tax.

The controversy surrounding the status of Amalar, an anti-malarial, has come to an end with the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) clarifying that the product was never banned, and that the Agency never pronounced that it was banned in a press statement concerning the importation fake and adulterated Amalar and Maloxine.

To check imported cases of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in the state, the Lagos State Government is to establish permanent posts to monitor the immunization status of children coming into the state with a view to immunize them.