Safe medicines: PWDAN calls for sanitation of pharmaceutical supply, chain, regulation
As SAFCO Pharma recently marked its 6th Anniversary, the Vice-Chairman, Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria, PWDAN, Pharm. Ogeneochuko Omaruaye has identified holistic sanitisation of the pharmaceutical supply chain and proper regulation as major steps in ensuring a consistent flow of quality and affordable medicines across the country. Omaruaye
‘Power sector needs additional $410bn investment’
Despite spending about N1.3 trillion in the past few years on the power sector, the Federal Government has said that it seeking additional $410 billion investment to strengthen the nation’s transmission and distribution infrastructure. Despite spending about N1.3 trillion in the past few years on the power sector, the Federal
Decomposing body of Kano businessman found in Kogi forest hours after N6m ransom payment
The decomposing body a 39-year-old Kano businessman, Yahaya Hassan Musa, who was kidnapped last week has been found in a forest in Kogi State hours after his abductors received a N6m ransom. According to our Correspondents, the victim who was married with two kids, was coming back from
Bakery worker vanishes with N350,000 just weeks after he was employed
A bakery worker has disappeared with N350,000 belonging to the bakery just weeks after he was employed. John Emeka was employed to work as a sales representative at Tasty Loaf Bakery on Ajelogo Road, Mile 12, Lagos State. However, the company’s CCTV captured the new employee on Wednesday, March
Put away your clerical garb, join politics and let’s see how far you can go – Presidency replies Bishop Kukah
The Presidency has replied Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Kukah, after he accused the Buhari-led administration of dividing the country on ethnic and religious lines. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, fired back at Kukah in a statement titled ‘Kukah’s virus of
Mac Miller’s drug supplier sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison
Ryan Michael Reavis, one of three drug dealers charged in Mac Miller’s fatal 2018 fentanyl overdose, has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison. At a hearing in Los Angeles federal court, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright sentenced Ryan Michael Reavis to 10 years and 11
Davido: What Tekno did to me
Popular Nigerian pop star, David Adeleke, also known as Davido, has given due credit to his fellow singer, Augustine Miles Kelechi, popularly known as Tekno for reviving his career at the moment he needed it most. Davido said he didn’t have any hit songs for almost a year until Tekno
Buhari reconstitutes board of federal mortgage bank
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday gave his approval for the reconstitution of the Board of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria. The approval, according to a statement issued by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President, is with a view to repositioning the bank as a core
National Assembly passes amended 2022 budget, approves N965billion borrowing
An amendment to the 2022 Appropriation Act and 2022 Fiscal Framework, which raised the deficit in the Federal Government’s budget by N965.42billion to N7.35trillion, has been passed by the National Assembly. The President had written to the National Assembly to call for amendments to the budget and the fiscal
Ask Presidential aspirants to show standard roads, schools, hospitals they’ve built — Sowore charges Nigerians
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has asked the Nigerian electorate to ask for the standard roads, schools and hospitals built by those contesting the 2023 presidential election before they vote for them. Sowore, in a Twitter thread on Wednesday, said it’s not enough for campaigners to turn the social