Scientists have developed a technique that could prevent women from passing on several rare and potentially deadly disorders to their children.

The management contractor for the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, Manitoba Hydro International of Canada, has expressed regrets over the challenges which contributed to the delays in its takeover of the operations of the company.

Federal Government has so far spent about N430 million in the last 10 months on the control and treatment of Tuberculosis in the country, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebu-chi Chukwu, has said.

Once upon a time, quite a number of gynaecological surgeries done in the country was through cutting wide open the abdomen to get access to the ovaries, womb, uterus, or fallopian tubes amongst others can now be done laparoscopically.

Indigenous Marginal Field, MF producer, Energia Limited, said it hoped to increase oil production from its Oil Mining Lease, OML 56, to 10,000 barrels per day, bpd, by 2013. Current capacity from the block is put at 5000 bpd and expected to inch higher to 7,000bpd by mid-December.

In June 2011, when operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, at the Lagos State Police Command cracked a notorious robbery gang that specialized in breaking into Automated Teller Machines, ATM, across major banks in the state, they were elated, believing they have ended the reign of the gang.

Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), a female focused Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), said its 2012 annual conference holds this week.

LEADER of Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, Mr. Benjamin Onwuka, and about 500 members were, yesterday, charged for treason by an Enugu Magistrate Court for allegedly committing treasonable felony.

Belgian coach Walter Meeuws has warned Nigeria and Zambia his former player and Ethiopia star Saladin Said could shock them at the AFCON.

Nigerian police on Monday arrested 101 alleged members of a secessionist movement based in the country’s southeast in the latest such sweep in the region, authorities said.

ANAMBRA State chairman of Labour Party, LP, Comrade Sam Oraegbunam, has said in Awka, that the party would shun godfathers because they cause disunity among members.

EBONYI State government yesterday denied insinuations in some quarters that it was planning to suspend implementation of the N18, 000 National Minimum Wage in the yet-to-be presented 2013 budget of the state.

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho thinks German champions Borussia Dortmund are a team capable of winning the Champions League as the two clubs get set to do battle in their Group D tie on Tuesday.

The irony of the senseless killings in the North East of Nigeria, especially the Borno-Yobe axis came full circle when on November 02, as reports have it, gun men shot dead General Mohammed Shuwa, a 79 year old authentic civil war hero dead, along with his guests in his Gwange, Maiduguri home. It was indeed a tragic end to a man who even in the heat of war protected lives and did everything to avoid needless deaths.

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