The recent passage of the Tobacco Control Bill by the National Assembly which specifies, among others, the places cigarette smokers could smoke; areas where smoking is forbidden and also the punishment to be meted out to defaulters when they smoke in non-designated areas, is a good step in the right direction.
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Burundi and African leaders’ sit-tight mentality
THE announcement April 25 by the Burundian ruling party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) nominating Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza as its candidate for the scheduled June presidential election was an aberration capable and has in fact set that nation in turmoil.
Averting floods
Now that the rains are here in parts of the country, it is predictable that there will be floods, the effect of which may be untoward.
Therefore, members of the public should be sensitive to the consequence of flooding by avoiding dumping of refuse into the drainage channels in order to curb it at the peak of the rainy season.
Recurring fuel scarcity
The price Nigeria has been paying for failure to meet demand of internal fuel consumption through sustainable supplies from the existing local four refineries is what has been playing out in the recurring fuel scarcity and high costs being visited upon the country.
Recurring fuel scarcity
The price Nigeria has been paying for failure to meet demand of internal fuel consumption through sustainable supplies from the existing local four refineries is what has been playing out in the recurring fuel scarcity and high costs being visited upon the country.
From Goodluck Jonathan to Muhammadu Buhari
A sea-change occurred in this country following the unprecedented loss of power by an incumbent administration to an upstart opposition coalition that was cobbled together less than one year before the March 2015 general elections.
Uche Chukwumerije (1939-2015)
Although Senator Uche Chukwumerije was alive on December 16, 2014 to debunk the rumour of his death the previous day, December 15, when it was alleged that he slumped and died following a shock he allegedly had after losing his bid to return to the senate for the third consecutive time, death eventually crept up to him on Monday April 20, 2015.
The return of Keshi
The recent re-engagement of Stephen Okechukwu Keshi as national team coach has finally put to rest the seemingly intractable controversy that had surrounded his contract extension or otherwise, as Super Eagles Chief Coach.
Chibouk Girls: Still a differed hope
The criminal, heartless and wicked abduction of young impressionable teenage girls from Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibouk, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, by the Boko Haram insurgents has remained a pain and anguish to the families of the victims and a global embarrassment to the Nigerian government.
JAMB and its utme
The confusion and disorganization which characterized the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, clearly demonstrated the ill-preparedness of the Board for a compulsory Computer-Based Test, CBT, adopted for all the candidates.
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