Four escaped death as lorry smashes cab
FOUR persons, including a pregnant woman Tuesday escaped death by whiskers as a commercial cab conveying them was smashed by a petrol tanker at Oke-Ilewo area of Abeokuta metropolis.
Ajayi seeks more attention for endometriosis
CORRECT and prompt diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis – a disorder which affects women in their reproductive years has been identified as a significant factor in the treatment of female infertility.
MTN rides on Ericsson to deploy world’s largest switch
MTN Nigeria, last week leveraged on end to end communications solutions expertise of Ericsson Nigeria, to launch one of the largest switches in the world. MTN says the development was in a move to improve quality of service and significantly improve customer experience on the network.
Adenuga assures Ghanaians a robust Glo network at launch
Globacom Chairman, Dr Mike Adenuga Jr, has declared that the network Glo was building in Ghana would be the best in Africa.
ACP urges victims of sexual violence to speak out
IN a bid to curtail the excesses of sexual violence in the country, Ajegunle Community Project (ACP) is urging victims to speak out as a way of safeguarding against such ugly incidents in the future and its consequences.
USPF stirs ICT consciousness across rural Nigeria
In each of the geo political zones where the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF has taken its recent designed stakeholders consultative forum on how to leverage ICT services to the underserved communities and extend services to the unserved rural population, the Fund ended up stirring the hornets bee.
19m Nigerians treated for river blindness in 12 years
As part of efforts to check cases of river blindness or onchocerciasis in parts of Nigeria , over 19million Nigerians infected or at the risk of infection by the disease have been availed professional treatment and drugs in the last 12 years to arrest the spread of the tropical disease in the country.
2.3GHz saga:How court upheld NCC’s statutory rights
The federal High Court Abuja, headed by Justice Umar Garba, Thursday last week, cleared the air on the lingering saga of 2.3Ghz licensing round conducted by the Nigerian Communications Communications, in April 2009, and was later in May 25 2009 cancelled by the former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, on the ground that the process was not transparent.
Ndanusa assures of security for 170 players from 28 countries
Irrespective of the recent crisis in Jos, the Nigeria Tennis Federation assured yesterday that adequate security measures have been put in place to ensure that the over 170 players from 28 African countries being expected at the 33rd African Junior Tennis Championships are secured.
Lagerback spots 50 Nigerian players abroad
Owing to time factor, Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Lars Lagerback has said he would focus his training on tactics and not technique for the 2010 World Cup finals preparations.
NOC: 18 Federation presidents call for emergency meeting
Desirous to seek an end to the impasse rocking the anticipated elections into various offices in the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), 18 front-line members of the Executive Board, have invoked Article 23 of the NOC Constitution to ask the Secretary-General, Banji Oladapo, to as a matter of urgency, summon a Board meeting for March 26 in Lagos, in accordance with and following the dictates of the NOC Constitution Article 21to furnish members with the report of the Electoral Committee, which has recommended March 31 for the election.
