FRIDAY EKEOBA Lafarge Africa Plc, one of the leadingcement manufacturer in the domestic economy has posted a material loss of N28.0billion in its second quarter financial result for the year end June 2016, even as it attributed the dip to foreign exchange losses that impacted negatively on its operations to the tune of N27.5billion. In a filling to the Nigerian StockExchange on Wednesday for verification, …

The International Monetary Fund lowered its world growth estimates for 2016 and 2017 on Tuesday, citing the negative impact of Britain’s vote to quit the European Union. Here are the IMF’s new forecasts for percent growth of gross domestic product, with the change in percentage points from April in parentheses. Country/region 2016 2017 World 3.1 (-0.1) 3.4 (-0.1) Advanced economies …

Diseases such as colorectal cancer, liver cancer ,helicobacter pyloris and other infections that occur in the gastrointestinal(GI) tract are usually not easy to detect when looking out for signs and symptoms. And even when the symptoms are obvious its often to late to treat. That is the situation in our hospitals at the moment and doctors treating GI diseases are …