Making the announcement last week, the Meningitis Vaccine Project, MVP —a partnership between the global health nonprofit PATH and WHO—and Serum Institute of India Ltd, manufacturer of the MenAfriVac vaccine, said the stage has been set for the elimination of menigitis within the continent’s epidemic belt.

The iPhone also democratized the world of software development with the arrival of the iOS App Store, which has since paid out more than $25 billion to app-makers.

The countdown has begun to the thirtieth Africa Cup of Nations, since the competition started in Khartoum, Sudan in 1957.
In less than six days, the attention of the sporting world is expected to be focused on what has come to be established as the third biggest soccer fiesta in the universe outside the FIFA World Cup and the European Championship.

Medical doctors at Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India, have successfully separated eight-and-a-half months old Thoraco Omphalopagus (the fusing of two bodies at the lower chest and abdomen) twins, Abriana and Adriana

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has called on investors in the private sector of the economy to build laboratories for products testing.

Simple arithmetic tells us that a state budgeting to spend N107.9 bn (N108 rounded up) would need to generate N9bn per month from all sources in 2015. The question is how realistic is this for Nasarawa?

Who succeeds Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola will be known in a matter of 47 days but if the statement credited to the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC|) in Lagos state is anything go by, he may be telling Lagosians confidently that he is the next governor of the state.

THE number of meetings Nigerians convene to save their country is impressive. What is disturbing is that these meetings achieve nothing, though some would argue that if things remain as they are, with all the meetings, they would have been worse without discussions about the future of Nigeria.

UNARGUABLY, the Northern part of Nigeria is far bigger than the southern part. It has 19 states, 57 senatorial zones and 419 local councils.

The 2015 general election is here, political office seekers have deployed campaigns to win the vote of potential voters,as regarding their promises to the electorate Princewill Ekwujuru writes.

WARRI—EX-MILITANT leader and founding member of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, met, yesterday, with the influential Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILT, headed by Pa J. Ayomike, in Warri, Delta State.

FOLLOWING the killing no fewere than 15 persons in Edo State in the past two months in a suspected rivalry cult war, the Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr Folunso Adebanjo, weekend paraded 40 suspected cultists.

Audi is further expanding the biggest investment program in its history. From 2015 through 2019, the Ingolstadt-based company plans to invest 24 billion Euro, which is 2 billion Euro more than in the previous planning period. 70 percent of the investment will flow into the development of new models and technologies.

POLICE detectives have arrested a 46-year-old suspected oil thief from Arhavwrien community in Delta State.

Lagos—The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) yesterday said it had taken delivery of about 6.6 million National Electronic Identity Cards (e-ID Cards) since the scheme was launched in August 2014.