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NAFDAC destroys unsafe, unwholesome drugs worth over ₦2bn

March 29, 2019 11:24 am

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday destroyed unsafe and unwholesome products seized by the agency, worth over N2 billion, at Oke-Diya Dumpsite, Sagamu, Ogun State.

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the Agency told newsmen during the destruction exercise that 189 trucks conveyed the unsafe and unwholesome drugs — the highest ever recorded by NAFDAC — to the destruction venue.

“This destruction exercise, which is in line with our strategy, is aimed at eradicating the re-introduction of expired, Substandard and Falsified (SFs) medical products, as well as unsafe and unwholesome NAFDAC regulated products into …

Pope issues new child abuse legislation for Vatican City

March 29, 2019 11:02 am
Pope Francis issued stringent child abuse legislation for Vatican City employees on Friday, as part of the Church’s bid to address a wave of sex abuse allegations against priests.The legislation requires officials and employees in the Vatican City State as well the Roman Curia, the central administration of the Catholic Church, to immediately report any abuse against minors and vulnerable people or face fines or a prison sentence.Anyone convicted of abuse must be “removed from office” under the new rules, which set a statute of limitations for such crimes at 20 years from the date victims turn 18.

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Police use tear gas, water cannon on Algeria protesters

March 29, 2019 10:47 am

Algerian police used tear gas and water cannon on Friday to try to disperse hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika days after the army called for his removal to end weeks of political crisis.

The protests, which erupted on Feb. 22, have been largely peaceful but have put pressure on the military to stabilize the North African country, a major oil and gas producer which cooperates with the West in fighting terrorism.

Police opened fire with tear gas after youths hurled stones at them, a Reuters witness said.

Some demonstrators called for the entire …

Rebuilding at North Korea’s rocket site ‘almost complete’

March 29, 2019 9:40 am

North Korea has almost completed rebuilding a long-range rocket site it had promised to close, Seoul lawmakers told reporters Friday after a closed-door meeting with South Korean intelligence officials.

The claim comes a month after a second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in February ended without an agreement, deepening a gap between the two on how to achieve “complete denuclearisation”.

Shortly after the end of the Hanoi summit, a series of satellite images emerged suggesting increased activity at the North’s Sohae rocket site, triggering an international alarm that the nuclear-armed state might …

Helen Paul, popular Nigerian comedian and actor bags Ph.D

March 29, 2019 9:23 am
Popular Nigerian actress and comedienne, Helen Paul has bagged a Ph.D in Theatre Arts from the University of Lagos.

Paul  who is also a stand-up comedian, popularly known as Tatafo, characterized by a voice range that makes her sound like a child, is the first among her Nigerian colleagues to bag a Ph.D.

The comedian, who is also a singer announced the news on her Instagram handle, itshelenpaulon Friday, March 29, 2019.

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How NDDC officials allegedly laundered ₦3.6b, by witness

March 28, 2019 10:34 pm

A prosecution witness from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Eyo Bassey Francis, a subway developer and contractor, yesterday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, how two officials working for Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Tuoyo Omotsuli and Francis Momoh, used their companies to transfer hundreds of millions of naira to his companies’ accounts for onward transmission to some beneficiaries and for conversion into dollars.

The witness, led in evidence in chief by the prosecution counsel, Ekene Iheanacho, said he embarked on an online platform for users of Internet for NDDC and also did general supply of goods …

Trump to meet with Xi Jinping at the G20 economic summit

Trump extends Liberians’ immigration protections in US

March 28, 2019 9:42 pm

Trump last year ordered an end to Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) status for Liberians, which was first granted to them during the presidency of his fellow Republican George W. Bush and enabled the immigrants to work and protected them from deportation. Advocates estimate that roughly 4,000 Liberians in the United States are protected by DED.

Trump had declared a one-year “wind-down” period, which set the final expiration date of the status as March 31. But on Thursday, Trump said he had changed his mind, winning unusual praise from some immigration advocates who have fought his policies in courts during the …

$30m Greater Lagos IV pipeline begins operation

March 28, 2019 9:29 pm

Indigenous gas & power portfolio company Axxela Limited has put into operation its Greater Lagos IV (GLIV) gas pipeline network and the newly renovated Elegbata Sports Complex.

Greater Lagos IV (GLIV) is Axxela’s gas pipeline network, developed by its Gaslink Nigeria Limited subsidiary in partnership with the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC).

Spanning from Ijora through Lagos Island’s Marina axis, the multi-million dollar pipeline will supply gas to commercial and industrial off-takers along its route, and already has First Power and Island Power among its customers.

The firm’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Rasheed Olaoluwa, said: “This occasion demonstrates our continued …

Ondo shuts hospital for training ‘quack’ nurses

March 28, 2019 11:54 am

Ondo State Government on Thursday sealed off a private hospital in Okitipupa reportedly owned by Dr. Odusola Aribo for training auxiliary nurses against the established law.

The Acting Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Dr. Dipo Durojaye, after being briefed by the Ministry’s Monitoring team, who monitored hospitals in Okitipupa, said Aribo also started a hospital without following laid down regulations.

Durojaye added Aribo did not register the hospital with the State Ministry of Health, which makes it illegal.

He said it would not be business as usual in the State health sector as government will descend heavily on quacks and …

Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique reports five cholera cases

March 28, 2019 11:45 am

Five cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mozambique following the cyclone that ravaged the country killing at least 468 people, a government health official said Wednesday.

Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique on March 15, unleashing hurricane-force winds and heavy rains that flooded much of the centre of the poor southern African country and then battered eastern Zimbabwe and Malawi.

The Red Cross has previously warned of a “ticking bomb of disease” and called for the deployment of medicines and health professionals to avert a full-blown health disaster.

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‘Politicians use party vehicles to carry drugs Anambra’

‘Nigeria has 15 million drug addicts’

March 28, 2019 11:26 am
The Chairman Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse, Brigadier Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa on Thursday in Katsina declared Nigeria has about 15 million drug addicts.

Marwa, who described the development as alarming, further put the global average rating of drug use and abuse at five per cent.

He however stated the rating for Nigeria was 15 percent.

The former Lagos State Military Administrator spoke after leading members of his committee to the Katsina Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

 He said: “We have an emergency situation before us regarding the issue of drugs abuse

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Verdict on Osun governorship poll cannot stand – Aregbesola

March 27, 2019 9:30 pm

Former Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has described the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal last Friday, which nullified the election of Governor Gboyega Oyetola as very strange and unknown to law.

Aregbesola, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Sola Fasure, said the report of the split judgment came to every watcher of political events in the state as a rude shock.

In the statement entitled: “This judgment cannot stand,” the former governor said the people of the state and the government have the highest regards for the judiciary and would keep having high regards for the revered …

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