6‐8 November 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa 27 July 2011; The inaugural POWER‐GEN Africa conference and exhibition, to be held in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa on 6‐8 November 2012, has announced the Call for Papers now open, with a deadline for abstract submittal of 3 February 2012. The POWER‐GEN Africa Advisory Board has released the conference topics and announced that the 2012 conference will consist of three tracks running simultaneously. Under the conference theme of Global Technology for Local Solutions, POWER‐GEN Africa 2012 will feature leading power industry professionals from around the world who will share their... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 27th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – One of the major political parties in Nigeria, The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as patently fraudulent, deceptively self serving and a terrible misadventure the plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to send a Constitutional amendment bill to the National Assembly to pave the way for a single tenure for the President and the Governors of the thirty-six states of the federation. A statement issued in Ibadanthe Oyo state capital by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, the twenty-seventh of July, says the party the plan also confirms fears being expressed... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 27th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigeria has recorded a major medical breakthrough by performing successful kidney transplantation. The medical feat was achieved by a team of surgeons of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Lagos the commercial nerve centre of the nation. It was the second successful kidney transplantation in Nigeria, by Nigerians. An official source at the LUTH told newsmen that the four-hour operation “went very well”, noting that the kidney recipient “was responding positively” at the hospital. Shout-Africa.com gathered information that the authorities in LUTH would make a formal announcement of the medical breakthrough at a... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 27th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – The trial of the former speaker of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole has been stalled. This followed an application filed on his behalf by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo praying the court to disqualify the prosecutor, Mr Festus Keyamo from prosecuting the case. At the resumed hearing of the case, Chief Awomolo who had earlier filed an application seeking to quash the seventeen (17) count charge preferred against the former speaker, Mr. Bankole by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] told the court that Mr Keyamo would be biased in his prosecution of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 27th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a clandestine laboratory for the illicit production of Methamphetamine in Lagos State, South –West Nigeria. The production centre a three bed room bungalow located around Iba, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State has a production capacity of twenty to fifty kilogram’s per cycle, hence making it a large production centre similar to what is found in Mexico. However, officials of NDLEA are working to ascertain the possibility of a link with other international drug networks. Chairman and Chief Executive of the Agency, Ahmadu Giade who pledged... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 24th 2011 |
