President Buhari has called for urgent measures towards the speedy trial of cases and decongestion of custodial centres in the country in view of Covid-19 pandemic.

In a letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, the President drew His Lordship’s attention to the recent call by the United Nations on all countries “to consciously reduce the population of prison inmates since physical distancing and self-isolation in such conditions are practically impossible.”

According to President Buhari, “From available records, the inmates population at various custodial centres across the country presently stands at about 74,127 out of which 52,226 are Awaiting Trial Persons (ATPs).”

“Most of these custodial centres are presently housing inmates beyond their capacities and the overcrowded facilities pose a potent threat to the health of the inmates and the public in general in view of the present circumstances, hence the need for urgent steps to bring the situation under control.”

“It has become imperative for Your Lordship to request State Chief Judges to embark on immediate visit to all custodial/correctional centres within their respective States to identify and release deserving inmates where that has not been done already.”—President Buhari.

He noted that during such visits, “the Chief Judges are enjoined to consider conditional or unconditional release of ATPs who have spent 6 years or more in custody. ATPs who have no confirmed criminal cases against them, aged inmates and terminally ill may be discharged.”

“It is expected that particular attention should be on the aged, those with health issues, low risk offenders, those with no sufficient legal basis to remain in custody, inmates convicted for minor offences with or without option of fines and inmates who have less than 3 years term left to serve having served a substantial term of their service for offences that attract 5 years and above.”


“Payment of fines may be made in favour of inmates convicted of lesser offences with option of fine, who are in custody because of their inability to pay such fines.

President Buhari said a Report on the proposed visits is expected to be forwarded to the Presidential Committee on Correctional Service Reform and Decongestion Secretariat, Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja for compilation and onward transmission to his office.

He also suggested to the Hon. Chief Justice of Nigeria to “at this stage, consider taking immediate steps as appropriate to ensure the setting up or designation of Special Courts in all States, including the FCT, “to try cases of armed robbery, banditry, kidnapping and other serious offences, in order to facilitate speedy trials.”

“There is the need to ensure that the Chief Judges of States and FCT High Courts direct lower courts to comply with requirements of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act/Law in issuing remand warrants in criminal cases especially in cases which are not within their jurisdiction.” President Buhari.

According to the President, “this will regulate the volume of entry of Awaiting Trial Inmates into custodial centres.”


Source: https://www.covid19livereporter.com/2020/04/covid-19-president-buhari-canvasses.html?m=1

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Clarion Medicals is a company that was conceived and registered in Nigeria in 1997. It is one of the leading pharmaceutical and healthcare company that is known for genuineness in its industry and has earned trust overtime as a result of the superiority and uniqueness of its branded products.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

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For more of similar openings

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Most shortlisted persons are apprehensive because they are yet to receive their login details to access the LMS (learning management system) of Youwinconnect and it's few hours to the start time of the online training.

Many are waiting for it like expectant mothers. �


Meanwhile, those who have received theirs are having challenge in logging in as the site is currently down.

It's hoped to be up and working before 4.00pm today, the time the online training is slated to start.

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By safe sex, we mean any sexual act that is not causal. Of course, causal sex is that which puts us at risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted or unplanned pregnancy. To the married, this may not apply always except when one of the partners is having an STI.

To engage in safe sex means to consistently and correctly use condom whenever you want to have sex. Remember, this is not applicable, as earlier said, to the married (who are faithful anyway).

Now, the reasons to join team safe sex are:
1. Safe sex prevents us from contracting STIs including HIV

STIs including HIV is a burden to the world health system. This burden is man made; by those who preferred unsafe sex to a safe one.

If asked, they would tell you they needed to drive maximum pleasure.



I don’t really believe there is no maximum pleasure from sex when condom is used. If asked, I would even say that it is only with condom that the unmarried can truly drive pleasure from sex.

I wish to leave this question with you: “would you want to add to this health burden plaguing the world probably because you want to drive maximum pleasure”?

Why not be among those try to take away the plague instead? Even if you don’t want to join in those fighting the battle, don’t be a contributor.

To do this, play safe always.



2. It prevents unwanted pregnancy

Any pregnancy which is not planned is termed unwanted by some people. Although, some other people frown at the word “unwanted”. Which category you belong, just know that safe sex prevents us from either of them (unwanted or unplanned).

3. It saves us the troubles of infertility

In medical practice, most recorded infertility are linked to STIs. It is obvious that STIs result due to unsafe sex. These, when not treated or when poorly treated lead to infertility. This is seen in both genders (male and female).

Unfortunately, most STIs are becoming resistance to common antibiotics available. This means that unless everyone adopts safe sex practice, the rate of infertility will keep on increasing even exponentially.

Correct and consistent condom use wouldn’t give room for STI. If true, there will not be infertility as a result of STI if all and sundry embrace its usage. Please let’s accept safe sex unless you belong to team abstinence. Of course it’s the only method with accuracy of 100% in preventing STIs, and pregnancy.

4. It enables us have rest of mind

One day, a friend called me. He wasn’t at easy which I sensed from his tone. “Guy what is the trouble”? I enquired. “Please what do I do? I’m not sure if I’m free”. “Free from what, I asked him”?

He went further to say he had unsafe sex with a lady he didn’t trust. Guess what, he wasn’t afraid if he had made the girl pregnant nor whether he had got other STIs. His only fear was HIV. To him, other STIs and pregnancy can be taken care of but not HIV.

So, he called to know if something could be done before infection occurs.

Like that my friend, anyone who engages in an unprotected sex stops sleeping for awhile. This state of unrestfulness can be avoided just by engaging in a safe sex. Condom use guarantees this.



5. It saves us time and money

Safe sex saves us time. It is also saves us money. When you get down with STIs just because you needed to skin dive a baby, you will not only spend money in seeking treatment but also your precious time.

Time they say is money. So, you will be more useful to yourself and probably the society if you convert the time, energy and money you will use to seek treatment into something useful.

How can you do this? It’s by subscribing to safe sex ideology. It pays.

http://www.nigeriandrugs.com/safe-sex-practices-and-its-importance/

Cough is not just cough. It can either be dry or productive. When we say that it’s productive, it means that you can cough out something (mucus or sputum).

Cough is good for the body if it is productive and it should not be stopped. We don’t mean you should go begging for it to come. What we are trying to say is that it comes to help our body when there’s an impending danger.

Productive cough is usually a reaction to a foreign body or irritant in the respiratory system. For instance, in a dusty environment, enough dust will unavoidably enter into our respiratory tract. The dust will, most often carry along bacteria, fungi or virus with it. In other for the body to get rid of these alongside the dust, mucus production will ensure. Depending on where the foreign bodies ended in the respiratory tract, productive cough will be triggered to enable our body remove those substances.



Now, do you think it’s good to stop the triggered cough? Of course the answer is no. More reasons it shouldn’t be stopped include:

1. Stopping it is an act against body defence mechanism

The body has several ways through which it naturally protects itself. One of the ways is through triggering of productive cough. If the body succeeds in doing this, its effort can be abolished with drug called antitussive or generally known as cough syrup. When this happens, the self defence the body is trying to achieve is compromised and the body can therefore be overtaken by infection. That’s to say, it’s very bad to stop productive cough with drug.

2. Stopping it would make the mucus, which could be carrying infective microorganisms, be retained in the respiratory system

Retention of mucus in the respiratory tract is not good. Whether the mucus has infective microorganisms or not, it should be allowed to be coughed out. Allowing mucus be retained in the respiratory tract through cough stoppage will compromise the integrity of our health as it will make us come down with bacterial, viral, or fungal infection which might be entrapped in the retained mucus.

3. It will bring about respiratory tract infection

When we breath in microorganism that causes infection, infection doesn’t automatically occur. The body fights it. One of the ways it does this, as we said earlier, is through triggering of productive cough. When this happens and we stop it with drug, the microorganism will then cause infection in us called respiratory tract infection or lung infection. When this happens, we will be needing antibiotics which relatively cost much.

Productive cough shouldn’t be stopped. Allow it for it comes only to protect your respiratory system.

Note: if the sputum is blood stained or has lasted more than 7 days, seek medical help immediately.


Thanks

Source: http://www.nigeriandrugs.com/3-reasons-it-is-bad-to-stop-productive-cough-with-drug-2/

Quitting smoking is never easy, although, not impossible.

Go to pharmacy near you, ask them for nicotinic chewing gum.

Any time you have the compulsion to smoke, chew the gum. Always have the gum with you. As you use the gum, try and reduce the its frequency over time.

Continue that way, in no distant time, you will stop smoking.

Note : Determination is key and I believe you are.

Ulcer is a term used, most often, to describe peptic ulcer disease. When it’s said that someone has ulcer, it means that the person has wound either in the stomach or upper part of small intestine.

The truth is that it is very difficult to see stomach ulcer heal. The major cause of this is that those who have ulcer always consume or do things that either delay ulcer healing or worsens it even the more.

These 13 things are what we would enlist so that you avoid them if you have ulcer.

1. Avoid carbonated drinks and citric acid containing drinks.

2. Avoid eating too much beans

3. Don’t lick vitamin c unnecessarily

4. Avoid pain killers especially its abuse

5. Avoid irregular eating pattern

6. Avoid alcohol consumption

7. Avoid not being on your ulcer medications

8. Avoid too much spicy


9. Never take any drug on an empty stomach unless specified by your doctor or pharmacist

10. Avoid coffee

11. Avoid Stress

12. Avoid fries and snacks


13. Avoid unripe acidic fruits


Source:
http://www.nigeriandrugs.com/13-things-to-avoid-if-you-have-stomach-ulcer-2/

1. Hypertension is a chronic disease condition and it’s real. It affects majorly the adults and the chances of becoming hypertensive increase as we grow older.

2. It is more common in:

people who are obese or overweight
people who drink alcohol excessively
those who smoke
those who consume a lot of salt (more than 2g a day),
the diabetics
women who use oral contraceptives
those who leave sedentary lifestyle.
3. One might not be aware that he is hypertensive unless he is checked.

4. Some lifestyle we indulge in makes us become hypertensive earlier than it would have come.

5. It kills and it does that silently

6. Most times, if you don’t have the habit of checking your health status from time to time, the time you would realize that you have hypertension; it might have caused a lot of damage to your body. First step to manage hypertension effectively lies on regular checking of your blood pressure to know its value each time. For those who are hypertensive, weekly check is good. Although, it can be as regular as daily if the value is excessively high.

7. People whose values are less than 120/80 mmHg are not hypertensive. People whose values are between 120-139/80-89 mmHg are about to become hypertensive. Those whose value are 140/90 mmHg and above are hypertensive.

8. Hypertension leads to other disease conditions. These are its complications and majorly occur when it is neglected. By being neglected, we mean when it is not being treated. These disease conditions include stroke, kidney failure, heart diseases and impaired vision or blindness.

9. Hypertension can be well managed. This is done either by lifestyle modification or through drug therapy or their combination. Lifestyle modification needed by the hypertensive include smoke cessation, drinking alcohol responsively, losing weight if overweight, avoidance of junk foods and too much salt intake, and by engaging in aerobic exercise regularly.

Don’t allow hypertension to kill you or any of your relatives, kill it instead. Just follow the recommendations here and that of your healthcare providers. Leave healthy to stay healthy.

Source: http://www.nigeriandrugs.com/2018/07/21/9-facts-about-hypertension-you-need-to-know/

Sickle cell disease
Let her:

Drink enough water always

Eat balance diet.

Take daily multivitamins but it must not contain iron

Take preventive anti malaria drug called proguanil Daily

She should sleep under insecticide treated net

Niprisan can be of great help

See a Dr who knows what he is doing for advice on lifestyle modification




http://www.ozikspharma.com/2016/08/25/when-love-is-not-enough-sickle-cell-disease/

Medicinal chemistry and pharmacology laboratories of faculty of pharmaceutical sciencs, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) go down into ashes. This ugly incident took place at the wee hours of today (21/01/17). The cause of the inferno is yet unknown. Efforts to put off the fire by the men of Enugu State fire service proved abortive. You know, chemistry laboratory houses chemicals, that is probably the reason they couldn’t put it off.

Pharmacists that trained at UNN would know that so many drug molecules under development that belonged to Mr.Ebi were being kept in an office in that building that fire burnt down. We condole therefore with UNN, the affected faculty and department and to Mr Ebi in a special way including other lecturers and students whose project works went down with the fire.




http://www.ozikspharma.com/2017/01/21/fire-consumes-laboratories-of-pharmacy-department-unn/

Who is a pharmacist?

A pharmacist is that health care professional who prepares and/or produces drugs and in some cases, prescribe the same for
patients use (pharmacist prescriber), administer them to his patients, monitor the pharmacokinetics of the drugs in some cases alongside its pharmacodynamics properties, gives proper instructions and counseling on drug use and their adverse effects. A pharmacist is never angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. In fact, whom a pharmacist is depends on the legal scope and professional regulation as obtained in the country where he practice. By training, he is an all rounder as he virtually knows almost everything with regards to drugs and its use in both man and other living things.

I am a pharmacist. Currently, I am doing my one year mandatory internship program at ESUTH teaching hospital in Enugu State, Nigeria. Today, the world pharmacist day, makes it the fourth month I started this program. Do you care to know my experience so far as an intern pharmacist at ESUTH teaching hospital? Then continue reading if yes. For the past four months, I have been working on an empty stomach, trekking to work almost every day as I have not been paid any salary since then. My fellow interns and I are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system. I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. The multiplier effect of our earned but unpaid salary is real. The interns suffer, the immediate families and dependants suffer, the hospital is worse off for harbouring stress-filled intern pharmacists who are not proud to call themselves appointees. Our lifespans are gradually shortened as most if not all of us have developed peptic ulcer diseases. In the face of all of these, the so-called "chiefs" live in the clouds, do little to redress the hopelessness. Nothing at best advertised the insensitivity of the department to the plight of their interns as the "chiefs" enjoy themselves while the interns do all the work. Of course, to continually demand interns’ loyalty by the chiefs in default is antithetic to any claims of good leadership and in our case, engendered by leadership bankruptcy.

The interns are justified to go on "strike". However, the chief medical director, the head of pharmacy department and all the relevant stakeholders have to find means of redressing this unfortunate development in the shortest time frame because a labourer is deserving of his wages. Owing workers unjustifiably and for no fault of theirs is indefensible; we should be spared the ordeal.

Happy World Pharmacists Day Fellow Men of Honour.

J.E. AGBO, B.Pharm, Pharm.D
A Nigerian Intern Pharmacist



https://ozikspharma.com.ng/2016/09/lamentation-of-intern-pharmacist-who-is.html?m=1