Tap water is a rarity in Nigeria, forget whatever promises the Minister for Water Resources may have made about making potable water available by whichever magic year.
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Humans have been raising cows for their meat, hides and milk for millennia. Now it appears that the cow immune system also has something to offer. A new study led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute focusing on an extraordinary family of cow antibodies points to new ways to make human medicines.
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Adeola Akinremi writes that patients at Lagos University Teaching Hospital are being turned down for shortage of bed space The speed was unusual. In a moment it arrived at the gate and then headed straight to the emergency ward. Inside the ambulance, a man wrapped in white cloth lay on the stretcher with two nurses at the back of the ambulance with him. After it had meandered through the roads within, it pulled to a final stop at the Accident and Emergency (A and E) ward, and without delay one of the nurses rushed inside the emergency ward. She later emerged from the ward looking dejected. “The patient would not be allowed in, because there is no space,” she said in an angry tone.
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Geneva is a quiet Swiss city of enormous but restrained wealth. The Palexpo center, where the auto show is held every gray March, is modestly sized, and the automaker stands are, by regulation, relatively small. The scene is pretty chill.
Updated 6 Years ago

This is a problem I think most people suffer silently with, if not share grudgingly with their close friends. You finally found the ‘perfect’ guy/girl and you feel like it’s time you settled down in a steady relationship. And then that time comes when you have to meet his/her friends and you’re anxious about how they will receive you.
Updated 6 Years ago

For Tonto Dikeh's birthday celebration, Cokobar decided to host the actress in their club in London UK. Tonto Dikeh decided to post pictures of her boarding pass clearly showing she was flying business class, glasses, passport and a Sony tablet .
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The first trailer for Runner, Runner has been released online, seeing Justin Timberlake play a man drawn into a corrupt world of online gambling. The trailer centres on a gifted Princeton student (Timberlake) who is cheated out of his money by an online poker site, but later becomes the right-hand man to its corrupt owner, who leads him into a world of money, yachts and women.
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A 42-YEAR-OLD single mother, Kate Henshaw, was unveiled recently in Lagos as the brand ambassador for Samsung West Africa’s Electronics and Home Appliances. The deal, according to sources, is worth millions of naira.
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FORMER Mo’hits Records co-honcho, Michael Collins Ajereh, popularly called Don Jazzy, stunned twitter followers when he awarded one of his followers with the sum of N100,000 for being the first person to retweet a ‘dot’ he tweeted.
Updated 6 Years ago

Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said. The Scottish writer revealed in April he was suffering from terminal gall bladder cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a year.
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