The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) yesterday alerted over the circulation of fake imported anti-malarial drugs, Maloxine and Amalar, stressing that the last time the genuine Maloxine was imported into the country was in 2003.

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and their allies in the civil society organisations yesterday in Kano, threatened to shut down the country should government fail to address their demands as they resumed the suspended anti-deregulation protest rallies.

It would be recalled that the councillors had dragged Mr. Ehima before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged misappropriation of council funds and inflation of contracts.

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Michael Aondoakaa may have advised President Umaru Yar’Adua that the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, is not vested with the powers by the nation’s laws to cancel licences issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), , in what may pave the way for the resolution of the impasse that trailed last month’s sale of three slots of 2.3GHz spectrum by the telecoms regulator.

Speaking during a courtesy call of the group to Mr. Fredrick in Udu, Don Emmanuel Onose, national coordinator, IBPS, said, their aim of visiting was that they heard he invented an off grid hydro generating plant and that it was already in use.