We empower women for better life – Deaconess Regina Oviaesu
Deaconess(MRS) Regina Oviaesu is a former Vice-Chairman of Oredo local government of Edo State and also the National President of the Great Women Movement, based in Edo State. A woman of many parts, in this interview with Sunday Vanguard in Benin, she speaks of the importance the group attaches to the empowerment of women in the state, the importance of the girl child education, the 35 percent Beijing affirmation for appointment of women into government offices, and the need for women to take active part in partisan politics.
Mother-in-law tore my family apart – Man tells court
My seven years of living with him has been hell. He made life unbearable for me; if I continue with him, he might end up killing me. He takes me for granted because he got me pregnant while I was still in secondary school”, a housewife, Maria Nwanche, told an Agege Grade A Customary Court in a divorce suit.
INEC scores FCT Area Council elections below 40%, decries low turn out
NATIONAL Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in-charge of South East, Dame Gladys Nnenwafor, has decried the low turn out at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Council elections conducted Saturday, saying that the turn out was below forty per cent.
7 killed in fresh hostilities between C/River, Ebonyi communities
Fresh hostilities broke out Saturday between Adadama community of Cross River State and the Ikwo people of Ebonyi State. Reports said at least seven persons were killed.
Breakthrough in battle against leukemia
A critical weakness in leukaemic cells, which may pave the way to new treatments, has been discovered by scientists at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics and The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA.
The research team has demonstrated that leukaemic cells can be eradicated by removing a carbohydrate modification displayed on the cell’s surface.
Ereka! Toxin in bee venom kills HIV
AN important step toward developing a vaginal gel that may prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, may have been achieved following the discovery that nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy HIV while leaving surrounding cells unharmed.
