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NAFDAC Bursts Large Hauls of Fake Wines, Soft Drinks, and Consumables

By Editor December 18, 2023 77 0

By Emmanuel Kwada The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has arrested ten persons for alleged illegal production, distribution and counterfeiting of Seaman Schnapps, Henessy, Chelsea, McDowells, Gordons, Smirnoff ice, Eva Non-Alcoholic Drink, among others. This was disclosed by the Director-General of the Commission, Prof Moji Adeyeye in Continue Reading

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Nigerians turn to unregulated local herbs for treatment as essential drugs remain unaffordable

By Editor November 29, 2023 91 Post a comment

… Saw Palmetto cancer drug price surges from N65,000 to N200,000 in just one year. Key points: Patients now result to use of unregulated drugs Essential medicine scarce, out of stock Major health crisis looms as prices of drugs prices soar How GSK’s exit complicates Nigeria’s drug problem Government need to promote localization of pharmaceutical […]Continue Reading

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Here’s effort that is helping students of Mass Education overcome Substance Abuse

By Editor June 26, 2023 118

By Daniel Adaji Students of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)’s Department of Mass Education in Kuje, Abuja have begun to share testimonies about the life of transformation they now enjoy, sequel to an intervention on abuse of substances hitherto common among them. The students, whose past was infested with drug abuse, stated that the intervention […]Continue Reading

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Data Analysis: How Nigeria lost her health personnel, and how to win them back

By Editor April 25, 2023 156 0

10 reasons why medical doctors migrate By Daniel Adaji The House of Representatives woke up last week from slumber to rush a Bill that would make it mandatory for Nigerian-trained medical doctors to serve the country for a minimum of five years before they could seek employment in overseas. Realising that their days in the […]Continue Reading

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Inside Abuja Area One IDP Camp where hunger and sickness prevail

By Editor April 25, 2023 458 0

By Daniel Adaji Hajia Bintu Ali, a 53-year-old mother of ten, fled to the Abuja Area One Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp for refuge after a deadly Boko Haram attack in her community in Gwoza local government area, Borno state. Everyone fled for safety. Many persons were killed, and several others are missing to date. […]Continue Reading

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Flood: FG to relocate 10,000 persons in Kogi

By Editor March 14, 2023 137 0

The Federal Government is to relocate 10,000 persons in Mosun Community in Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi following the rampaging activities of the River Benue during raining season. Alhaji Abubakar Yelwa, the Managing Director of the Hydro-Electricity Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), made this known during a tour of the affected communities in Continue Reading

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SERAP gives Okowa, Wike, others 7 days to disclose spending of N625bn refunds

By Editor December 13, 2022 141 0

By Kolawole Oluwadare Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the nine oil producing states in Nigeria to “provide and widely publish details of spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625bn recently paid to them by the Federal Government, including details and locations of projects executed with the money.” The Federal Government recently Continue Reading

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dRPC tasks government on 2023 health budget; calls for quick releases of funds

By Editor December 7, 2022 138 0

By Daniel Adaji In the 2023 budget, the health sector was allocated N1.17 trillion, but this has not changed the sloppy allocation and releases of health funds in the country,  data analysis by the development Research and Project Centre (dRPC) has revealed. FGN has only about three months to release all funds allocated to the […]Continue Reading

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Women lament 56% reduction in 2023 budget for WEE

By Editor November 10, 2022 163 2

By Daniel Adaji   The National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), has lamented the slash in the budget for Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) from N103 billion in 2022 to N58 billion in the 2023 Appropriation Bill. The NCWS made this known at a press conference held at the headquarters of the NCWS in Garki, Abuja […]Continue Reading

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Rising food inflation and child malnutrition in Galadimawa community of the FCT

By Editor November 7, 2022 206 0

By Daniel Adaji Baby Annabel, 15 months old, from Pergasson Galadimawa, a rural cocmmunity in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, weighs about 5.5kg and cannot walk on her own. She looks too pale and small for her age. She is barely surviving due to acute malnutrition, perhaps, because of her parents’ resolve to see her alive […]Continue Reading

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CISA commends military actions against economic saboteurs, vessel of oil thieves

By Editor October 20, 2022 138 0

By Daniel Adaji A Non-governmental Organisation, Citizens Initiative for Security Awareness (CISA) has commended the drastic measures taken by the Nigerian military in curtailing the excesses of pipeline vandals, sea pirates and other economic saboteurs. The group also decried call for sack of Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, by some interest groups over […]Continue Reading

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170,000 displaced by floods in Ibaji, Kogi State

By Editor October 7, 2022 217 0

No help has come from any quarters, victims lament By Daniel Adaji Over 170,000 persons living in Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State have been displaced by the devastating floods in the agrarian community in the last two weeks, according to eye-witnesses. I lost my step-mother today due to continuous and excess of flooding […]Continue Reading