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Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu Report by: Joseph Ebirim\ The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu has reiterated his call for the controlled cultivation of Indian hemp and adaptation for use in medicine in Nigeria. Speaking at Abeokuta, at the ongoing annual conference of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), tagged GATEWAY 2021, Gov. Akeredolu charged pharmacists in Nigeria to conduct an in-depth research into the various uses of Indian hemp, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, for medicinal purposes. He hinted that the cultivation of Indian Hemp was not strange and added that it was already successfully practiced in Thailand and can be replicated in Nigeria. He added that, “In Ogbese, a community in Ondo State, it is possible to have a farm where the enforcement agency, NDLEA will be in charge to ensure that nobody takes out the substance to smoke but will only be exported to the pharmaceutical industry for formulation as therapeutic agents. He charged ...

Information reaching us from credible sources has it that a new batch of the AstraZeneca Vaccine has arrived Rivers State in addition to the Moderna Vaccine which is currently being administered to residents. Residents of the state can receive the vaccine at the following health facilities in the state: Obio Cottage Hospital, Rumuobiakani Rumuokwurusi Primary Healthcare Centre Eliozu Primary Healthcare Centre Elelenwo Primary Healthcare Centre Obio/Akpor Council Sickbay Rumuodumaya Model Primary Healthcare Centre Mgboshimini Model Primary Healthcare Centre Rumuigbo Model Primary Healthcare Centre Iriebe Model Primary Healthcare Centre Ozuoba Model Primary Healthcare Centre Reports have it that there has been an increased patronage of vaccination services in recent weeks just as healthcare practitioners particularly, community pharmacists continue to report increasing rate of malaria and flu-like illnesses across the state capital. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the A...

Image Source: Dreamstime.com   One of the commonest complaints on the lips of many Nigerians is “there is no money.” On the other hand, one of the commonest groaning from the lips of the same set of people is that “our politicians have stolen all our moneys”. But a careful look into the society and particularly around the entertainment, hospitality, real estate and sex industries reveals that there are so many non-politicians bagging real money and earning genuine wealth. How true then is the saying that “there is no money anywhere”? A big fat lie, it is. The truth is that there is money in the hands of a group of people whom many others complaining are simply unwilling or scared to take the risk of approach to attract or demand their own fair share of the wealth. Do you know that no matter how wealthy a man or woman is, there is always something they lack and which they cannot do or are too comfortable or lazy to do for themselves – such as buying food, going in search of a luxury...

  Koryele Tampiakoo Are you curious to know what my thoughts are about them? Well, I just have few lines to share about my experience thus far and I can only pray you read with an open mind, ready to adjust and adapt so you don’t cut short your life trying to pull and reconstruct a well-crafted and fortified wall built from time immemorial to outlive the roads built by our colonial masters or the engines built by the Germans. Of course, I am talking about the female gender; I refer to them as the beautiful versions of humans. So much has been said about how they are materialistic and complex in behaviour, being more emotional than rational, etc. I have found that it makes more sense to me to advise against materialism than blame the other gender for their attraction to beauty and lovely things; after all, those are the very elements of their being. I have come to realize that the very things the female gender desires are the very aspects of them where a male gender can invest to ge...

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Tales abound to the injuries attributed to DRUG MISUSE AND ABUSE. We have lives, fertility and huge finance lost to septic abortion, for young and mature ladies who tried an abortion adventure with Misoprostol and D & C. There are countless tales of accidents, organ (liver & kidney) failures as well as detention at correction facilities (prison) attributable to abuse of controlled (hard) drugs. There are also many cases of depression, schizophrenia and other mental derangements that can be linked directly or indirectly to the misuse of great and useful drugs. All these happened because the victims refused to heed good counsel at one point or the other. As the holy books similarly instructs, oh that today, this word of counsel comes to you, harden not your heart!  Every Pharmacist who makes effort to satisfy both his moral and ethical conscience by providing medication counsel to patients buying drugs from him be it at the hospital or community pharmacy will confess great di...