Eating nuts “significantly” boosted the number and health of sperm in young men in a scientific trial, researchers at the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain said Wednesday. The findings “support a beneficial role for chronic nut consumption in sperm quality,” they said, but stressed the study participants were all healthy, apparently fertile men. The
Volkswagen, car manufacturing company, says it is ready to produce two million made-in-Nigeria cars yearly as soon as the automotive bill is signed into law to curb the dumping of used cars in Nigeria. Mr Thomas Schaefer, Chairman of the company said in Abuja during a discussion on “Developing the African automotive industry by adopting
The house of representatives has resolved to probe the funds recovered from Sani Abacha, former military head of state, from 1998 till date. The lawmakers are also seeking to investigate how the funds have so far been used, including the charges paid to lawyers and consultants. The resolution followed a motion introduced during plenary on
The Deputy Governor of Kano State, Professor Hafiz Abubakar has called for the establishment of 10 more universities in the state to cater for 60 per cent of qualified candidates seeking for university education in the state. Professor Abubakar made the remark at the presentation of provisional license to the newly approved Skyline University, Nigeria,
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has raise alarm of violence and other threats to the 2019 General Elections. The Country Director of the USIP in Nigeria and senior program officer for Africa Programs, Oge Onubogu, said this yesterday in Abuja at the presentation of the ‘Nigeria’s 2019 Elections: Change, Continuity and the Risk
The 36 state legislative arms of government’s presiding officers under the aegis of Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria (CSSLN) met in Abuja on Tuesday to garner basic knowledge on the implementation of financial autonomy at state level. The meeting, which took place in Abuja at a workshop organised by the Partnership to
Gunmen have killed seven police officers in the Galadimawa area of Abuja. TheCable learnt the officers were killed during a shootout with their attackers on Monday night. The officers were said to be on stop-and-search duty operation in the area when they accosted the gunmen. Witnesses said the gunmen successfully escaped during the incident which
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has said that history will be hash on the present administration if it failed to stop the mass killing of innocent Nigerians. Dogara said this on Tuesday while welcoming members back from the Eid- El- Fitr holiday. He said that the killings of innocent Nigerians should
The Election Monitor (EM) has said that the next week Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State would be the most heavily policed election in Nigeria’s history. The Coordinator of the EM, Mr. Abiodun Ajijola, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the Public Presentation of ‘The 2018 Ekiti State Governorship Election Observation and Research Guide’.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence nationwide systematic hardware and software upgrade of all its Smart Card Readers next week. The commission disclosed this in a statement issued by its Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi on Sunday in Abuja. This according to Osaze-Uzzi was to continue to protect the