Having spent a week at Kuje Maximum Prison in Abuja, erstwhile Chairman and Secretary of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy probe, Farouk Lawal and Mr Boniface Emenalo, have begged trial Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi to okay their release.

In other words, in the 29 years, from 1970 to 1999, our cumulative oil revenue was only N3 trillion; while a whopping N20.8 trillion was received in the next seven years, from 2000 to 2006! Again, these are official figures, from the CBN website.

Dry season farmers in Sokoto state are to get various loans totaling N1 billion to boost food production, Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Arzika Tureta has said.

Mali goalkeeper Mamadou Samassa compared their Wednesday’s opposition to five-time World Cup champions Brazil after they succumbed to a 4-1 drubbing at the hands of the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the semi-finals of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Durban.

A few years ago, it was learned that too much TV might kill sooner. Now, a new study by the Harvard School of Public Health study has said excessive TV-watching could deplete sperm count.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have uncovered a human enzyme responsible for causing DNA mutations found in the majority of breast cancers. The discovery of this enzyme — called APOBEC3B — may change the way breast cancer is diagnosed and treated.

Feeding human breast milk to very-low-birth-weight infants greatly reduces risk for sepsis and significantly lowers associated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) costs, according to a study by Rush University Medical Center researchers.

Ghana, down and out after their shock semi-final loss to Burkina Faso here Wednesday, will pick thermselves up to face Mali in the third-place play-off, assistant coach Maxwell Konadu said.

The Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, is yet to commence full cargo operations two months after launch. The cargo train service was launched alongside the passenger inter-city train service on the penultimate week of December 2012.

A NEW report issued by the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, has uncovered that most Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, in commercial use today contain a hidden viral gene known as “Gene VI”, that appears unsafe for human consumption.