Delay In Gazette Of NAFDAC’s Trans Fat Regulation Risky For Nigerians Health · Groups Charge Ministry Of Justice On Speedy Action By EDU ABADE As the Federal Ministry of Justice continues to delay gazetting of the regulation and enforcement of industrially ...
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Read More »Groups Raise Alarm On Dangers Of Trans Fats Consumption
The Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED) and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have urged the Nigerian government to prioritise access to safe and nutritious food for all Nigerians, especially the poor and vulnerable that are ...
Read More »Reject Tobacco Industry-Sponsored Draft Policy On Alternatives To Cigarettes, Groups Tell Minister Of Industry
Civil society and public health groups under the aegis of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) have opposed the “Draft Policy on Conventional Tobacco and Non-Combusted Alternatives to Cigarette Smoking” advanced by the tobacco industry, urging the Federal Ministry of ...
Read More »Groups Warn Against the Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Nigeria
About 80 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from Nigeria, Africa and other countries in the world, including the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have condemned moves to open the way for the ...
Read More »Rivers Government Approves N2.3b for COVID-19, Orders Compulsory Testing Of Workers
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has ordered employees of the Government House to undergo mandatory tests, as infected persons hit 1,056 in the state. He gave the directive while receiving three ambulances from the Executive Director of BUA Foundation, Khalifa ...
Read More »Nigeria Developing Policies To Improve Seafarers’ Training, Certification, Remuneration
Seafarers Key To Humanity’s Survival, Wellbeing Amid COVID-19, Says Jamo As NIMASA Gives Them Palliatives Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has disclosed that there are policies in the pipeline to improve ...
Read More »No State Is Free Of COVID-19, NCDC Insists As PTF Restates Restriction On Interstate Travels
Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, hss said no state in the country was coronavirus-free. He argued that “we live it in a context where viruses spread, and can only start talking about ...
Read More »PANDEF, Ijaw youths, others seek COVID-19 test centres in Niger Delta
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have deplored the existence of only one coronavirus test centre in the entire South-South geopolitical zone that had no fewer than 50 confirmed cases of the dreaded disease. PÀNDEF, ...
Read More »CSOs decry absence of coronavirus test centre in Delta, unveil platform to monitor, report responses
Civil Society Organisations and other critical stakeholders have deplored the absence of a coronavirus test centre in Delta State amid the pervasiveness of the deadly disease nationwide. In a statement after the launch of their situation room to monitor and ...
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