PUMPKIN seeds contain a heap of great nutrients and their inherent plant-based health benefits are often understated. There are loads of vitamins, minerals and other important phytonutrients in pumpkin seeds. These include manganese tryptophan, magnesium phosphorus, copper, zinc and iron.

TOWARDS changing the landscape of medicine and healthcare in Nigeria, 4 Dimension Technology in partnership with China-based organisation, Landwind Medicals recently introduced state-of-the-art 4D ultra sound scanners.

The global leader in wireless innovation, BlackBerry Limited has reported financial results for the three months ended November 30, 2013

A former Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Tony Nnacheta, has backed the current board to produce a team that will give Nigeria a good presentation at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

I LONG ago came to the suspicion that much of the ethnic hostility in Delta State emanate from a toxic mix of ethnic hatred, rumour mongering and a cocktail of entrenched misconceptions. Right from Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s emergence as a gubernatorial hopeful back in 2007, there emerged an implacable opposition to his aspiration.

LAGOS — For alleg
edly biting off his friend’s upper lip, a 31-year-old man, Chidi Osuagwu, was yesterday charged before an Itire Magistrates’ Court in Lagos,
The accused, who resides at 13, Agboola St., Ijeshatedo, a Lagos suburb, is being tried for assault.
The prosecutor, Inspector Olakunle Shobanire, told the court that the accused committed the offence on September 25 at 9.00 p.m. at 271, Ijesha Road in Itire area of Lagos.
Shobanire alleged that Osuagwu was at a beer parlour when the complainant, Sunday Adebayo, asked him to buy him a bottle of beer, but he refused.
The complainant jokingly chided the accused for failing to buy him beer which angered Osuagwu and he immediately assaulted Adebayo by biting off his upper lip, he said.
The accused entered a plea of not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of N40, 000 with one surety in like sum.
The Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Gbajumo, adjourned the case to January 13, 2014 .

ABIA State Police Command has recovered the two AK 47 riffles belonging to two inspectors attached to the command who were killed two weeks ago by armed robbers.

Traders in Benin have decried the low patronage of food items in the markets by customers less than 24 hours to Christmas.

PERMIT me to go straight to the point by calling on Nigerians, in the light of the recent defection of 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives to the All Progressive Congress (APC), to draw attention to Section 68 (1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution as amended which states: “A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if – being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”

The Defence Headquarters has confirmed that over 50 insurgents were killed and about 20 vehicles destroyed in an operation it carried out on Monday night.