Volkswagen Golf 1.6 TDI BlueMotion has set a new record for the distance travelled by a passenger car without refuelling.

The car travelled a distance of 1941 kilometres from the South African and Zimbabwean border gate in Beit Bridge to Cape Town in two and half days.

To 54-year-old Patrick Nwabuebo, a veteran taxi driver who have cruised the nooks and crannies of highbrow areas in Ikeja, Lagos State, there was no iota of premonition of what befell him on Tuesday, 16th August, 2011, which turned out to be his last day on earth.

SHORTAGES of generic oncology chemotherapeutic agents is raising safety concernsing among healthcare providers because it is limiting patient-care choices, and affecting clinical outcomes.

Worried by the nation’s housing shortfall which is currently put at a staggering 16 million units, the Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple has been told to urgently convey an all stakeholders retreat to x-ray and appreciate the magnitude of the problem confronting Nigeria housing industry and fashion out new ways of handling the challenges.

Worried by the nation’s housing shortfall which is currently put at a staggering 16 million units, the Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple has been told to urgently convey an all stakeholders retreat to x-ray and appreciate the magnitude of the problem confronting Nigeria housing industry and fashion out new ways of handling the challenges.

ABUJA : The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal has assured Nigerians of the intention of members of the House to speed up work on the bills on mortgage system and pass them into laws with a view to fast tracking the chances of Nigerians to own residential houses.

Do you know you can enhance your dining area with a stunning sideboard? Sideboard is simply a piece of furniture that sits by the side of the dining room table and enables you to have a display area for storage of flatware such as breakable plates and other decorative dining room items.

As the cost of kidney dialysis services in the country continue to shoot through the roof, a renal technologist, Mr. Olutade Ojebali, is advocating for setting up of more dialysis centres in the country to enable significant reduction of the cost of the service.

The Federal Government is to build a new pipeline to facilitate gas supply to the Olorunsogo power station in Ogun. The Minister for Power, Prof Barth Nnaji said at the end of a two-day tour of some power plants in the South West, that the pipeline would assist the station to realise its full capacity of 335 megawatts before the end of the year.

Pharmacists in the country have been prevailed upon to review their roles and prove their worth by exhibiting the deserved level of professionalism in their practice, despite the harsh nature of the terrain in which they operate.

WHILE many humans are yet to understand the functionality of the world’s number one internet tablet, the Apple iPad, a group of orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo in the United States of America, are already exhibiting their dexterity on the gadget.

Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission, ADSIEC, has postponed indefinitely local government elections earlier scheduled for the last week of this month.

A middle-aged man, Adah Emanuel, who has allegedly been parading himself as an Army Captain has been arrested by men of the Nigerian Army in Michika, Adamawa State, with substances believed to be cannabis sativa (Indian hemp).

The father of Chelsea and Nigeria star John Mikel Obi was Monday found alive in Kano State. Michael Obi was last seen on 12 August in the city of Jos, where his car was found last Wednesday.

The Planning Committee of the 21st Quadrangular Games, to be hosted by the Lagos Country Club in November, has announced HotSports, a foremost sports marketing and production company, as the marketing consultants for the annual games.