Abba Moro, the Minister of Interior, on Thursday said he takes full responsibility for the death of 16 applicants during the ill-fated Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise held on Saturday, March 15, 2014. He also apologized for the deaths.The Minister declared this during the public hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Interior…
More Capital Projects Will Grow Economy
David Ugolor is the executive director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, with the mandate, among others, to entrench good governance. With a number of projects that involve issues of development, social justice, poverty eradication and research in the Niger Delta region, supported by Norwegian and…
Second-hand Clothes, Second-hand Diseases
As Nigerians continue to patronise fairly used clothes, skin experts warn of its health consequences Busola Oyelami, a 28-year-old tailor, was one of the members of Atunrase Tailors Association, Sango, Ogun State, who did not come in their customised white T-shirt for the association’s monthly meeting recently. In order to avoid paying a heavy fine,…
The Trouble with Bags
Leather or synthetic handbags are items people can rarely leave behind, and they come in different sizes and with health challenges. All researchers can see in bags are heaps of bacteria, mould and fungi. Bags are indispensible fashion item but with intended risk to human health as shown by research. Tests carried out by Initial…
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