PEOPLES DAILY, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015
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A middle-aged man hanging on a truck, yesterday at Apo, in Abuja.
Photo: Justin Imo-Owo
Yuletide: RTEAN scribe urges drivers to cooperate with FRSC By Usman Shuaibu
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he chairman of Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) Gwagwalada Area Council branch in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),Abuja, Alhaji Inuwa Mohammed, has called on
drivers especially members of the association to always co-operate with the men of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the discharge of their official assignment on the road. Mohammed made the call in an interview with newsmen during the 2015 Ember month flag-off campaign of RS7.11 Gwagwalada
Unit Command tagged “kill the Speed and Not a life” at the RTEAN’s office in Gwagwalada. He said that his administration would continue to parley with FRSC for the safety of drivers, advising them against taking alcoholic while on the road. He pleaded with the government
to carry the association leaders as well as FRSC along in the scheme of things. In the same vein, the RTEAN Secretary in Gwagwalada, Mallam Idris Adamu, appealed to the management of FRSC in the area to fight road traffic crashes on the road, at all times.
He also charged the men of FRSC to continue checkmating the activities of the drivers, who engage in the reckless driving on the road, as according to him, this is the only prevention to road accidents. Adamu, however, hailed the authority of FRSC for its initiative towards this year’s programme.
Man docked over alleged cheating O ne Uzor Oke, 37, has appeared before a Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, for allegedly defrauding his business partner of one million naira. Oke, a businessman who lives at Aso Estate on Airport Road, Abuja, is
facing a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust and cheating. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Adamu Abdullahi, told the court that one Michael Uche on July 23 complained at the Wuse Police Station, Abuja that he gave the accused some items
to sell. “The complainant entrusted the accused with clothing materials, shoes and perfumes he brought from Dubai to sell and remit the money.’’ He said the accused sold the items but refused to remit the money
to the complainant and converted the proceeds to his personal use. Suleiman said that the offences contravened Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code, respectively. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Senior Magistrate, Khadijat Mustapha, granted the accuse bail in the sum of 100,000 with two reasonable sureties in like sum. Mustapha ordered that the sureties must reside within the jurisdiction of the court. (NAN)
Dermatologist cautions against use of skin lightening cream
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Dermatologist, Dr. Bola Ogunbiyi, has advised people in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other parts of the country against the use of skin lightening cream popularly known as `toning cream’, saying it is harmful to our health. Ogunbiyi, who is the President, Nigerian Association of Dermatology, gave the advice in
a recent interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. She said the application of such creams to the skin has adverse effect on the internal organs. Also, she explained that whenever such cream was applied on the skin it is absorbed into the body damaging the internal organs like the pancreas and adrenal, among others.
The president identified adverse effect of such practices as hypertension and diabetes, among others, adding that manifestation of that effect would not be immediate but years later. However, she advised people to desist from such practices in the name of beauty, at the detriment of their health and life. Ogunbiyi stressed that a lot of
people spent huge sum of money on toning agent at the expense of their health and stomach. “A lot of skin lightening agents is extremely dangerous. People have a wrong notion that once you apply anything on your skin it ends on the skin. “Steroid the commonest thing people uses to bleach today get absorbed into the body and affect
major organs like the pancreas, adrenals and at the end such people begin to have Hypertension, diabetes, among others,’’ she said. She warned that the use of such skin lightening agent causes damages to the skin years after and most time users do not relate that habit to their health challenges. (NAN)