The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says its ongoing enforcement operations at the Idumota open drugs market in Lagos State will rid the country of counterfeit and substandard medicines. Mr. Shaba Mohammed, NAFDAC Director of Investigation and Enforcement, told newsmen during an enforcement exercise on Tuesday that the market was…

Five years after her husband was executed in Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Noura Fouad is still seeking his remains, unable to lay his body to rest and pay her respects at his grave. "My husband had an unfair trial," the mother of three told AFP. He had been an upstanding man "trapped by traffickers", she added,…

Pope Francis launched a stinging critique Tuesday of US President Donald Trump's deportations of undocumented migrants, describing it as a "major crisis" that "damages the dignity of men and women". In a letter to US bishops, he urged Catholics and others "not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Elton Onwu, on Tuesday, congratulated Emeka Wogu, PhD, CON, on his inauguration

Business tycoon Asil Nadir, once jailed for stealing millions from his Polly Peck empire, was buried on Tuesday after a funeral in northern Cyprus. Nadir, 83, died late on Sunday at a hospital in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which is only recognised by Turkey. The flamboyant Turkish Cypriot businessman was convicted…