Tax and customs expert Mr. Okey Ibeke, today, raised concerns over the ongoing tax reform bills, emphasizing that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) plays a highly technical role that extends far beyond revenue collection. The expert described the NCS as a specialised agency requiring advanced technical skills to effectively carry out its funct...
The National Coordinator, National Cancer Control Programme, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Uchechukwu Nwokwu, says 7.2 percent out of 127,000 cancer cases recorded annually in Nigeria are children. Nwokwu said this at the sideline of a public enlightenment on Childhood cancer commemorating 2025 International Childhood Cance...
A leading fertility scientist has warned against microwaving food in plastic containers because of its possible effects on fertility. Dr. Shanna Swan, an expert on endocrine disruptors, highlighted how these substances can disrupt hormones and harm reproductive health, reports Saturday Vanguard. During a recent health podcast, she advised peop...
•Tinubu presents 2025 budget proposal to National Assembly yesterday A policy analyst, Basil Abia, says the projections of the 2025 budget proposal presented by President Bola Tinubu at the National Assembly are unrealistic. In his presentation to a joint session of the National Assembly yesterday, President Tinubu said the budget aims to brin...
•Micheal Ale and Tinubu A development expert and founder of the Global Initiative for Nigeria Development, Micheal Ale, has cautioned the Tinubu-led federal government against implementing tax reforms that could deepen poverty among Nigerians. Ale, in a statement today in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, described the proposed tax reforms as “a grossly...
•Dolapo Adebiyi A United Kingdom social care expert, Dolapo Adebiyi, has lamented the lack of understanding of dementia in Nigeria. Dolapo, who is the Registered Manager at Emerald Care Services in the United Kingdom, expressed this concern to our correspondent recently, reports Saturday Tribune. Adebiyi noted that elderly men and women are of...
An expert in Mathematics Education, Patrick Friday Obot has shared a transformative vision for fostering equitable mathematics instruction among learners. Obot spoke at the annual science teachers’ conference in Akwa Ibom. He outlined a strategy that emphasises tailoring mathematics tasks to fit the cultural and social contexts of the learners...
•Allen Onyema The current attack on Allen Onyema, Chairman, Air Peace by some foreign authorities, was not just a blatant affront on an individual, but also on the entire Nigerian aviation sector, Mr. Chike Stanley, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Helicopter Services Limited has said. Stanley in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos, sai...
Under no circumstances should anyone be allowed to install makeshift Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) kits or a welded tank on any vehicle, an industry expert, Olugbenga Awe, has warned. The advice, he said has become imperative following last week explosion of a CNG vehicle during refuelling at a NIPCO Filling Station in Benin-City, Edo State [&h...
•Dr Ayobami Alabi A consultant paediatrician at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Dr Ayobami Alabi, says in this interview, that stress does not cause typhoid fever, nor does malaria progress to become typhoid fever without exposure to the germs that cause it, reports Nigerian Tribune. How prevalent is typhoid fev...
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