NIGERIAN women and their counterparts in other African countries have applauded the promise of Tenofovir, an anti-retroviral drug contained in a microbicide gel reputed to help protect women who can’t negotiate safe sex with their partners against HIV infection.

IN a bid to popularise rugby and turn it into a national sport, the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation plan to introduce sport to school pupils of ages seven and eight. The pilot scheme begins in ten schools in Lagos next month.

Chairman of Mosan Okunola Local Council Development Authority, Alhaji Rasheed Mafe has challenged sports administrators in the country to return to grassroots sports development if Nigeria must reposition herself among the comity of sporting nations.

Aminu Maigari may emerge the next President of the Nigeria Football Federation. Chairmen of the Football Associations are behind him. But there are many who are also behind Sani Toro and Alhaji Tinjani Yusuf.

As the battle against importation of fake drugs in the country, Nigerian pharmacists have declared that more friendly policies from the government at all levels is due as part of strategies to assist stakeholders in the pharmaceutical world to meet their obligations to the people.

FOLLOWING the controversy which has continue to trail the 3rd quarter oil import allocation to marketers the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) has urged the Petroleum Product Price Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to keep its board members more involved in products allocation exercise as well as to put a stop to cabal practise in the downstream oil sector.

A development that would make Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary celebration more meaningful is the adoption of a philosophy that promotes equity and justice among the various health professionals.

THE Lagos State Government has reiterated its resolve to continue to engage doctors in its employment in dialogue towards resolving issues bordering on their salaries, wages and general welfare.

ABUJA—The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has announced that it has begun the gradual phasing out of the Masters Degree component of the Overseas Scholarship Scheme (OSS) following domestication of the training programme in reputable institutions in Nigeria beginning from the next academic year starting September 2010.

HER passion is taking care of the less privileged, particularly widows, orphans and indigent children free of charge. But Lady Chinyere Gbugu, Director Good Learning Kiddies School, Lagos and Learning Academy, Isiokweachi, Enugu State is really a woman of many parts.