Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Saturday launched the first ``Mop-Up’’ polio eradication campaign in the state, pledging to assist other states in efforts to eradicate polio. Fashola made the promise at the onset of four-day polio ...
The South African government says that former President Nelson Mandela underwent a successful surgical operation to remove gallstones from his gallbladder.
A statement issued in Johannesburg by the presidential spokesman, Mac Maharaj, said that Mandela, who is 94, underwent the surgery on Saturday.
``Mandela is recovering well after undergoing surgery this morning to remove gallstones.
``The doctors wanted to treat a recurrent lung infection before putting him through the surgery.
``The procedure was successful and Madiba is recovering," Maharaj said.
Mandela has been hospitalised since Dec.8.
A gallstone is an accumulation of crystals in the gallbladder. If left untreated, it can become life-threatening because of the risks of secondary infections such as pancreatitis.
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has expressed his deepest condolences to the U.S on the killing of 20 children and 6 adults at an elementary school in Connecticut. Most of the victims were said to be between 5 and 10 years old and were inside tw...
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a group of non-governmental bodies, on Saturday in Abuja said 15.3 million households in Nigeria lack access to grid electricity. Mr Ewah Eleri, the alliance’s Co-ordinator, told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
The Pipelines Products Marketing Company (PPMC) says security agencies have promised to deploy massive securities personnel to all petroleum pipelines across the country to curb vandalism. PPMC’s Manager, Public Affairs and External Relations, Mr...
The Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME) has urged the Federal Government to formulate policies to checkmate the importation of items that were being produced locally. Mr Nerus Ekezie, the Director, Membership Service and Public...
The sex life of a man is more important than any other activity in his life. Raliat Ahmed-Yusuf highlights five highly-recommended “sex exercises” and how best they can enhance this through exercise. One of the major worries that men...
If being excessively fat is a serious health problem, then excess thinness has its own disadvantage as well. While some people battle with the problem of overweight, others are fighting anorexia – a potentially life-threatening eating disor...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that Nigeria would overcome its current security and developmental challenges and pulled down its walls of Jericho. The President, who spoke at the annual Holy Ghost Congress organised by the Redeemed Christia...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang, yesterday said the Senate approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for an addition N161 billion for subsidy because of security implications. Senator Enang, however, raise...
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday threw out a suit filed by the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Group, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), contesting his planned arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Babalakin had filed the suit to ch...
The Presidential Reform Pension Taskforce Team (PRTFT), yesterday asked to be counted out of the current irregularities associated with the payment of pensions in the month of November 2012 as widely alleged by pensioners in the Head of Service of the ...
Growing speculations within the hierarchy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the party’s national leadership would soon meet to decide the fate of Taraba State Governor Danbaba and also empower the acting governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, as t...
One of the critical projects, the 4th Lagos Mainland Bridge, which Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN)promised to execute during his second term in office, is yet to take off. During his re-election campaigns in 2011, Fashola had promised that his a...
About 375,636 metric tonnes of rice (7,512,720 bags of 50kg) will arrive in the seaports in Lagos by end of December, shipping statistics from the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for the month have indicated. This is compared to about 280,000mt (5,600,0...