Former students of the Federal Government Girls College, Owerri, have expressed outrage after they were left stranded at a hotel they booked months earlier. The old girls had travelled from different parts of the world to Owerri, Imo State, for their 50th global reunion only to discover that the hotel …
Read More »Revealed: drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines
Drug companies are systematically funding grassroots patient groups that lobby the NHS medicines watchdog to approve the rollout of their drugs, the Observer can reveal. An investigation by the Observer has found that of 173 drug appraisals conducted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) since April …
Read More »How the nuclear lobby scuttled the EU’s anti-greenwashing tool
One year ago, hopes were high for what was considered to be the most important environmental legislation in Europe. The European Union’s taxonomy regulation was meant to become the global “gold standard” for science-based policy that directs investment towards climate-friendly goals. But a long-delayed decision was made by the European …
Read More »2023: NNPP may lose Shekarau as Atiku, Tinubu intensify lobby
But Shekarau’s followers appear shortchanged as the NNPP blocked them out of the party’s list of candidates it submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission (EFCC). Shekarau, who did not find the outcome pleasant made efforts in vain to resolve the differences, a situation which has pushed him to begin contemplating …
Read More »Missed Abortion Rights by Minutes: Women in San Antonio Clinic Lobby Told They Had To Leave
The tragic story just continues to pile up the most personal tragedies, including one from a clinic that provided abortion services in San Antonio, where women waiting to exercise what was a 50-year-old Constitutional right happened to be a day late, some an hour late, some minutes late. According to …
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