Year: 2022

…call for effective regulation …seek gazetting Fats, Oils Regulations 2022 By Mandy Park   The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and other stakeholders have raised serious concern on the global health implications of transfat foods and oils. This is as they called for effective regulation and the need for effort at all levels in the value food chain to reduce the transfat effects. Particularly, they want the Fats, Oils Regulations 2022, gazetted. The stakeholders were speaking at an SME-MEDIA…

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By Mandy Park Gunmen in the wee hours of Saturday attacked and set ablaze the high court in Orlu LGA of Imo state. The gunmen were said to have attacked the complex which houses a magistrate court and the high court on the fateful day. Files were reportedly destroyed in the incident, but it is not yet clear if there were casualties. Michael Abattam, Imo State police Command spokesperson, did not respond to calls or messages when contacted to comment on the incident. The development came four years after a…

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By Mandy Park Imo State, Governor Hope Uzodimma, has blamed frequent building collapses in Nigeria on poor engineering quality. As a result,he advocated that members of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) should be allowed to discharge their duties like other professionals. The governor spoke, when he received the president and top executive members of NSE in Nigeria, on Friday, who paid him a courtesy call at Government House, Owerri. Said Uzodimma “The innocent lives we lose every time there is building collapse could be avoided if engineers were allowed…

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Emmanuel Kanu, younger brother of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has accused Simon Ekpa of behaving like a paid agent. Mr Ekpa, a self-acclaimed IPOB leader who is reportedly based in Finland, declared a five-day sit-at-home in the south-east from December 9 to 14. His declaration caused commotion in the region and resulted in the death of several persons including the brother of actor Osita Iheme. Condemning the order, Kanu said, “Whatever has happened was completely wrong. There was no order issued by the…

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Nigeria’s ambassador to Spain Ademola Seriki has died in the Spanish capital of Madrid at the age of 63. In a statement signed by his children, the former minister passed on “surrounded by his family” on Thursday, December 15. The statement read, “It is with heavy hearts and profound gratitude to Almighty Allah that we announce the loss of our much-loved and admired patriarch, husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, His Excellency, Ambassador Demola Seriki, on December 15, 2022. “He passed away peacefully surrounded by his family in Madrid,…

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