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December 9, 2024 NAFDAC Seeks Support of Nigerians to Fight Counterfeit Drugs and Products

NAFDAC Seeks Support of Nigerians to Fight Counterfeit Drugs and Products

The Director-General of theNational Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control – NAFDAC, Mrs. MOJISOLA ADEYEYE, has called for more intelligence reports about counterfeit products to tackle the problem.

Mrs ADEYEYE, who stated this yesterday, stressed the need for support from Nigerians, noting that the agency alone could not fight counterfeit products.

She urged the public to call the food and drug regulator helpline on 080-162-3322 for any information on drugs or food found to have truly violated the law, adding that any company found violating the agency’s rules and regulations on standards would be shut.

December 9, 2024 President Tinubu Reads Riot Act To Corrupt Nigerians

President Tinubu Reads Riot Act To Corrupt Nigerians

President BOLA TINUBU has vowed to ensure that corrupt Nigerians face the full wrath of the law.

TINUBU warned that bad actors, whether within or outside Nigeria, would be brought to justice.

The President, represented by the National Security Adviser, NUHU RIBADU, spoke at the graduation ceremony for the Executive Intelligence Management Course 17 at the National Institute for Security Studies in Abuja.

He reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to ensuring security and stability in the country.

December 6, 2024 Amnesty International Grades Isreal-Gaze Conflict as Genocide

Amnesty International Grades Isreal-Gaze Conflict as Genocide

Human rights group Amnesty International has concluded that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide in a damning new report.

The report published on Thursday, is the culmination of months of research by Amnesty, including extensive witness interviews, analysis of “visual and digital evidence”, including satellite imagery, and statements made by senior Israeli government and military officials.

Amnesty said the Israeli military has committed at least three of the five acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention, including indiscriminate killings of civilians, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and “deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction”.

December 6, 2024 ASUU Appeals to Federal Government Not to Phase Out TETFUND

ASUU Appeals to Federal Government Not to Phase Out TETFUND

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to the Federal Government not to systemically phase out the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) which has “transformed” tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria in the last three decades.

ASUU warned that suffocating the funding source of TETFund to run the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) would destroy public education in the country.

ASUU president, EMMANUEL OSODEKE said rather than systematically phase out TETFund which derives its funding from consolidated revenue from company income tax, the government should bankroll the newly formed NELFUND from Value Added Tax (VAT).

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