2 students invent fueless power generator: By Akoma Chinweoke
Two students of Doregos Private Academy, Lagos, Olajumoke Adebayo and Eniola Adewale has invented a fueless power generator. The invention was showcased at the Pan-African Women Inventors & Innovators Network Symposium, Expo & Awards at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja.read more
Russia has agreed to co-operate on Nato’s programme to defend against ballistic missile attacks, Nato’s chief has said.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a Nato summit in Lisbon that the two sides had agreed in writing that they no longer posed a threat to one another.read more
Morlachs (Mauro-Vlachs or Mavrovlachi, also Nigri Latini in Latin sources, meaning “Black Vlachs”; in Greek: mauros-valchio, in Serbian and Croatian Mor-laci [mor-latsi]) were a population of Vlachs. In another version their name comes from the slavic terms of “mor – ski-Vlasi” or Sea Vlachs. read more
Scientists filtered Y-chromosome haplotypes in the Nile River Valley in Egypt in 274 unrelated males, using the p49a,f TaqI polymorphism. These individuals were born in three regions along the river: in Alexandria (the Delta and Lower Egypt), in Upper Egypt, and in Lower Nubia. Fifteen different p49a,f TaqI haplotypes are present in Egypt, the three most common being haplotype V, haplotype XI, and haplotype IV. read more
Organs and bones were illegally harvested from the bodies of dead nuclear industry workers at Sellafield for radiation research without their consent over a period of 30 years, an inquiry found yesterday.read more
MOSCOW – South Africa and Georgia have little in common aside from a tradition of wine-making and a turbulent recent history.
But a group of white South African farmers say starting a new life in the former Soviet state could be the solution to their troubles at home.read more
The police in Auchi, Edo State have arrested an unnamed aide of a member of the House of Representatives from Zamfara State with bags of cannabis.
A statement from the Edo State Police Command on Wednesday said the aide was arrested in a 407 Peugeot car with registration no NASS FL 142 REP. The statement said the suspect was the lone occupant of the vehicle, which was conveying 10 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.read more