Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kachollom Daju, stated this after she was conferred with an honorary fellowship by the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists in Abuja.
“This fellowship bestowed upon me today is a call to duty to double the efforts of what I have done, and I have assured the industry that they shall not regret what they have done,” she said. “Daju is diligent, committed, transparent, hardworking, and, moreover, in the way she attends to things, she does so with fair manners and does not see one profession in the sector as superior to the other,” Alausa said.
The Federal Government has expressed worry over the high salt intake by Nigerians, lamenting that Nigerians consume between 5.8 to 25 grammes of dietary salt daily, significantly higher than the recommended maximum daily intake of two grammes of sodium and five grammes of salt by the World Health Organisation .
As the airlift of Nigerian pilgrims entered its second week, the departure of intending pilgrims from six Northern states to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will take full swing on Wednesday. Spokesperson for the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria Fatima Usara in a statement indicated that the pilgrims are from Kaduna, Yobe, Kano, Adamawa,…