Nigeria’s Tobi Amosun, the World Champion, has lost her world title after finishing 6th in the final at the ongoing World Athletics Championship in Budapest on Wednesday. Jamaican Danielle Williams won the title in a season-best of 12.43s while Olympic champion, Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn came second in 12.44s and USA Kendra Harrison came third in 12.46s while World champion came 6th in 12.62s in her third consecutive final. At the 2022 World Championship in Eugene, USA, Amusan came first with a 12.40 (African record) before setting a new world…
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NLNG Restates Commitment To Community-Driven Development In Host Communities
NIGERIA LNG Limited (NLNG) has restated its commitment to the Global Memoranda of Understanding (GMoU), signed with its host communities in 2021, to drive community-initiated sustainable development. The company stated this on Tuesday at the commissioning of projects by the Rumuji Community Cluster. The projects, which include a one-kilometre Rumuji/Rumuewhor Link Road, Scholarships to 29 university undergraduate students, and renovation and furnishing the Rumuji Community Development Foundation (RCDF) Secretariat, were funded and completed under the GMoU programme. Under the GMoU framework, clusters were created to drive community-initiated projects through a…
Read MoreOPEC Daily Basket Price Stood At $85.84 A Barrel Wednesday
The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $85.84 a barrel on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, compared with $86.51 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. READ ALSO: Breakthrough: Doctors develop Vaccine To Prevent Breast Cancer Get Ready, Wagner Group Vows to Avenge Leaders Death on Russia Abuja Two-Storey Building Collapses, Kills Two, Injures 37 JUST IN: Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin Feared Killed In Plane Crash The OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes, ORB, is made up of the following: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Djeno (Congo),…
Read MoreBREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Develop Vaccine Likely To Prevent Breast Cancer
In what is considered aa likely major breakthrough against breast cancer, scientists have succeeded in developing a vaccine with potentials to prevent women from the dreaded disease that has killed millions of them in their prime. The vaccine, developed at Pittsburgh University’s Mammaplasty Department, is. According to reports, currently being tested on 10 volunteers in a clinical trial. The trial will be expanded to 50 volunteers in the next phase, Professor Soran, one of the rresearcherseas quoted to have said. Breast cancer is among the most common cancer types among…
Read MoreGet Ready, Wagner Group Vows to Avenge Leaders Death on Russia
The Wagner Group has vowed to avenge the suspected killing of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, which occurred on Wednesday. The mercenaries were on Thursday reported to be trying to head back into Russia after threatening retaliation over Prigozhin killing on the alleged orders of Vladimir Putin. READ ALSO: UK Doctors Carry Out First Human Womb Transplant in History Spanish Govt Orders Probe Of FA President For Kissing Female Football Player All Eyes Now On Her: Amusan Zooms Into World Athletics Final Niger Governor Appoints 131 Women…
Read MoreAbuja Two-Storey Building Collapses, Kills Two, Injures 37
Two people have been reportedly killed while over 37 others were injured but rescued alive as a two-storey building carved in amidst heavy downpour in Abuja. Nigeria’s administrative capotal, on Wednesday night. The building, located at the busy Lagos Street in Garki Abuja, also reportedly trapped a yet-to-be-ascertained number of people. READ ALSO: UK Doctors Carry Out First Human Womb Transplant in History 14-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide Over Domestic Violence FAPEF Names Adeola Yusuf Panelist for Africa Economic, Financial Forum How, Why UK Slammed £100,000 Bribery Charges On Diezani Five…
Read MoreUK Doctors Carry Out First Human Womb Transplant in History
What surgeons said about the womb donor and recipient born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, which is a rare ¬congenital reproductive disorder that affects one in 5,000 women : The first womb transplant has been carried out by surgeons on a woman in the United Kingdom. Platforms Africa reports that the woman’s sister was the living womb donor. Quoting a report The Guardian on Wednesday, the unidentified 34-year-old married recipient from England underwent a nine-hour transplant procedure. READ ALSO: The More You Hang Out With Your Mom, The Longer She’ll Live –…
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