Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, on Friday, clamped down on 531 medicine outlets in the Federal Capital Territory for various offences. The offences include operating without registration, poor documentation, and stocking of ethical products without the supervision of a pharmacist. PSN Director of Enforcement, Stephen Esumobi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja. PCN is the Federal Government Parastatal charged with the responsibility of regulating and controlling the education, training and practice of pharmacy in all its aspects and ramifications in line with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Establishment Act 2022. According to Esumobi, “The council’s National Enforcement team carried out…
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Agency Report The National Average Cost of a Healthy Diet per adult a day stood at N1,041 in May 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. The NBS revealed this in its CoHD report for May 2024, released on Friday in Abuja. The bureau said that the CoHD in May increase by one per cent compared to the N1,035 recorded in April. The NBS said the CoHD was the least expensive combination of locally available items that met globally consistent food-based dietary guidelines. It said it was used as a measure of physical and economic access to healthy diets.…
Lagos State Coroner’s Court sitting in Ikorodu has granted the Aloba family permission to conduct an independent autopsy and toxicology test on their late son and singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly called Mohbad. Not satisfied by the result of the earlier autopsy conducted by the state government, the Aloba family had applied for an independent autopsy. They had based their request on suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased singer. The Coroner’s court delivered its verdict after the previous autopsy conducted by the Lagos State Government was declared inconclusive. The late singer’s family’s lawyers had rejected the results, demanding an…
Onoriode Kelvin Akpe, is the Director General of the Bayelsa Governor’s Cup, otherwise known as Prosperity Cup. His involvement in grassroots football talent hunting and development over the last nine years, has yielded tremendous results. Akpe has been the brain behind Bayelsa State Governor’s cup Tournament, where several young talents discovered are already playing professional football in different leagues across Nigeria, Africa, Europe and other parts of the world. In this interview with selected journalists, including Daily Newshub correspondent, the talent hunter bares his mind on the achievements so far, the talents discovered, other plans and issues of public interest.…
Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa The Commissioner for Sports Development, Bayelsa State, Dr. Daniel Igali, on Friday, restated the state government’s commitment to the development of Para Sports in the country. The World and Olympic champion made the assertion in Yenagoa, at the opening of a technical seminar with the theme: “Upgrade the capacity of technical officials of Para Athletics,” organised by the Para-Athletics Federation of Nigeria in partnership with Bayelsa State Para Athletics Association. According to Igali para sports has brought glory and honour to Bayelsa State at major events, hence the sustainability. Champion Igali commended the Para Athletics Federation for…
Agency Report The Ogun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps says 17 persons died in 16 road crashes during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration in the state. Sector Commander of FRSC, Mr Anthony Uga, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Ota, Ogun. Uga said that 45 persons also sustained various degrees of injuries from the crashes. The sector commander said that most of the accidents were caused by excessive speed, dangerous driving, night travel and tyre bursts, among others. “We are appealing to motorists to adhere to traffic rules and regulations…
. How to check your result Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday, released the results of candidates of the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The supplementary UTME was conducted between Friday, June 21st and Saturday, June 22nd, 2024. JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, while directing candidates on how to check their results, said, “To check their supplementary UTME results, candidates are to send UTMERESULT to either 55019 or 66019 through the same phone number they had used to generate their profile codes at the start of registration.” Benjamin said the supplementary examination was organised by the Board for 28,835…
Ben Ogbemudia, Abuja The Edo All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party campaign strategies starkly contrast each other in their approaches to sell their gubernatorial candidates to the voters. The ruling PDP seized an early advantage from the start of its campaign by presenting its gubernatorial candidate, Barrister Asue Ighodalo, as the quintessential candidate for the job. The catchphrase ‘man wey sabi”, invented by the PDP Campaign Council has gained currency among the public. In preparation for the full-fledged launch of its campaign, the opposition APC had to devise a counter-phrase to that of the ruling PDP. Announcing the commencement…
Friends and associates of Ibrahim Ezekiel Sini, a Superintendent of Police, who declined a bribe of N150 million from a Lagos businessman and founder of Platform Capital, Akintoye Akindele, are set to honour him on Friday in Abuja. One of the organisers of the event, Chukwudi Asudeogu, said Sini’s conduct remains exemplary and should inspire others and Nigerians to note that the Nigeria Police Force have men of integrity and good conduct. “This honour is aimed at not only appreciating the laudable conduct of Superintendent Ibrahim Sini, but to demonstrate that society appreciates individuals of integrity and good conduct. “We…
Former Social Democratic party aspirant for Abeokuta South Constituency 1 in Ogun State House of Assembly in the 2023 elections, Hon. Ayo Sowunmi, has debunked the rumour making the round that he left the treasury of the 1998 set of Rev. Kuti Memorial High School empty during his tenure as the president of Unique Set. An ex-president of the Unique set between 2020 and 2021, Comrade Moruf Fashina, had accused Sowunmi of leaving an empty treasury of N500 cash behind for his tenure at the expiration of his time as the president of the set in 2019, claiming he personally…