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In a bid to tackle the menace of drug abuse in the country, the President of the Senate Dr. Bukola Saraki has promised to go after importers and distributors of drugs.

The Dr Saraki revealed this even as the Senate begins a roundtable in Kano with state governments, local governments, traditional rulers, the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria and NGOs, to tackle the menace.

He expressed grave worry in series of tweets on his twitter handle @BukolaSaraki over the current spate of drug abuse prevalent in almost all the states of the country, adding that even nursing mothers were held by the clutches of drugs and other substances.

President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Prof Mike Ogirima, has expressed worry over the spate of migration of medical doctors from Nigeria to other countries.

Ogirima revealed that over 600 doctors had left the country between 2016 and 2017 despite Nigeria a poor doctor: patient ratio of 1:4000 populations.

At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation and World Bank. And each year, large numbers of households are being pushed into poverty because they must pay for health care out of their own pockets, the report said. Currently, 800 million people spend at least 10 percent of their household budgets on health expenses for themselves, a sick child or another family member.

A research by psychologists have shown that the rated strength of a male body accounts for a full 70 per cent of the variance in attractiveness. A strong upper body, wide shoulders, being physically fit make men attractive to women.

The researchers tested how important physical strength is to men's bodily attractiveness by showing women pictures of men's bodies and asking them how attractive they were.

The results, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, showed that it was possible to almost perfectly predict how attractive a man's body is from three factors: how physically strong he looks, how tall he is, and how lean he is.

The officer in-charge of UNICEF Field Office, Kaduna, Dr Idris Baba on Tuesday said the organisation has scaled up support to tackle high HIV prevalence among adolescents in seven local government areas of Kaduna State.

Baba, who made the disclosure in Zaria at a forum with media executives in the state, said: “HIV in adolescents remains a big concern; the seven LGAs have higher prevalence of HIV among adolescents in the state.”

Cigarettes should be tinted green and each one emblazoned with “smoking kills” according a new study by Cancer Research UK published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research. The move would discourage young people from taking up the habit, said Cancer Research UK. More than one in five young Scots are hooked on nicotine – the highest proportion in the UK.