The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has warned Nigerians against patronizing drug hawkers. The agency said most of the drugs sold by hawkers are counterfeit, substandard, and expired, warning that the sellers of the medicines are merchants of death. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye said this on Tuesday at the official flag-off of the agency’s media sensitization workshop on the dangers of drug hawking and ripening of fruits with calcium carbides. Prof Adeyeye said the menace of drug hawking poses a serious challenge to the healthcare delivery system in the country, adding that…
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Nigeria has won the 2023 African U-21 Nations Women’s Volleyball Championship Zone 3 in Niamey, Niger Republic. Nigeria defeated Ghana 3:0 (25-10, 25-15, 25-10) in the finals on Sunday night to clinch the title. The girls had earlier eased past local rivals, Ghana in their first match of the tournament with a 3-0 (25-11, 25-15, 25-8) win. They continued their winning run in their second match against hosts Niger, winning 3-0 (25-4, 25-11, 25-4). The team also swept aside Benin Republic with a dominant display in their third match, claiming a 3-0 (25-15, 25-15, 25-9) win to secure a rematch…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, lamented that most of the people who are supposed to operationalize the Nigerian Constitution are the ones undermining the country’s democracy. According to Obasanjo, an example of constitutional abuse is a situation where members of the National Assembly fix their own salaries in clear usurpation of the duty of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission The ex-President spoke on Monday in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, at a public lecture orgnised as part of activities marking the 60th anniversary of the Call to Bar of the legal luminary and Founder of Afe Babalola…
Ecobank has urged First Bank Holdings to reject the acquisition of 4.7 billion shares by a former Chairman of the bank, Dr Oba Otudeko. The bank raised the alarm in a letter written by its Legal Counsel, Kunle Ogunba & Associates, in which it stated that the business magnate, through his affiliated entities, owed the bank N13.5bn. The letter, dated July 7 and signed by the Principal Partner of the law firm, Oludare Amusan, said the bank had instituted several lawsuits against Honey Group Limited, Siloam Global Services Limited, Anchorage Leisures Limited, Honeywell flour Mills PIc and Dr Oba Otudeko…
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure on Monday said he got information that the All Progressives Congress was already preparing for a possible re-run of the 2023 presidential election urging members of the party to be alert. Abure said this during an online meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy, led by Professor Eddie Oparaoji, the Labour Party Diaspora Chairman in the United States, in Abuja He explained the ruling party was aware the tide was heavily tilted against it in the ongoing legal challenge to the presidential election results as declared by the…
•Customs CG rejigs border patrol, orders crackdown on fuel smuggling cartels •NNPCL intercepts Cameroon-bound vessel laden with 800,000 litres stolen crude oil The Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, on Monday, vowed a heavy clampdown on oil thieves, insisting that the nation cannot “afford to let saboteurs take over our economy.” Adeniyi, who said there were still cases of smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, at Nigeria’s border stations despite the removal of subsidy on the commodity, said the agency had adopted new border patrol strategies to close in on oil thieves. He made the…
Legal luminary Aare Afe Babalola said sitting judges should not preside over election petitions tribunals. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said judges who preside over election tribunals should be separate from regular court judges to avoid the halt of cases unrelated to elections. While speaking at an event on Monday in Ado-Ekiti to mark his 60th anniversary at the Bar, Chief Babalola said the judiciary needs a total overhaul. He suggested that retired judges and respectable SANs should constitute tribunal judges. “Our judiciary today needs a total overhaul and you cannot do it without a new constitution,” he said. “I…
Date: 2023-Jul-11 🎯TOPIC: ALWAYS CONSIDER THE LESS-PRIVILEGED 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/fuDLGkJ43R0 ✝️ TEXT: Luke 16:19-31(NKJV) 16:19. ” There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. 16:20. “But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 16:21. “desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 16:22. “So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The…
The Archbishop of Ondo Province and the Diocese of Akure Diocese of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, The Most Rev’d Simeon Borokini, has called on President Tinubu to appoint people with integrity and fear of God in his cabinet as the nation awaits the list of ministerial appointees. The Archbishop said there were lots of challenges facing the country, hence the need for the President to have people with impeccable characters to work with, to bring the country out of challenges. Archbishop Borokini gave the advice at the 2023 Bishop’s Charge delivered to the second session of the 14th…
A 43-year-old Catholic priest has been pronounced dead a few hours after he and his lover checked into a hotel in Nairobi. A local media outlet, on Sunday, disclosed that the deceased, identified as Joseph Kariuki Wanjiku, from St. Peters Ruai, checked into the Monalisa Hotel Delview in Gatanga with his lover, a 32-year-old woman identified as, Ruth Nduhi on Saturday evening. According to a police report, the lady informed the hotel management on Sunday morning that the clergy was experiencing dizziness and losing consciousness. Concerned for his well-being, they decided to rush him to Kenol Hospital in Murang’a in…