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Benin : Combination of Biological and Chemical Pesticides More Effective Than Expected on Malaria Mosquitoes

ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2010) — A combination of fungal spores and chemical insecticides are an effective way of combating insecticide-resistant malaria mosquitoes. Researchers at Wageningen UR and from Benin, West Africa, have shown that fungi and insecticides reinforce each other´s efficacy, and that the effect of using a combination of both is greater than the sum of using the two methods separately.

Their article in the August edition of PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) claims that biological and chemical methods of fighting malaria can and should be used together.

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Nigerian building collapse kills 19

August 13, 2010 - 2:09AM

AFP

Nineteen bodies have been recovered and 12 people rescued from the debris of a building that collapsed in the Nigerian capital Abuja, the police said on Thursday.

"Nineteen dead bodies have so far been recovered while 12 others were rescued alive. Rescue operation is still ongoing," said Federal Capital Territory police spokesman Abass Jimoh.

The residential building said to be three storeys collapsed on Wednesday in the central part of Abuja city….

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Nigeria : Woman loses four children in boat accident as two other men die by drowning

By George Onah
Port Harcourt—A woman lost all her four children by drowning in a midday horror when the boat they were traveling in capsized along the Opobo/Kono waterways, even as the mother of the children swam to safety without being able to save any of the children.

Vanguard learnt that their death brings to five the number of children the same woman would be losing through drowning. They were said to be traveling from Epellema Community in Opobo/Nkoro Council to Port Harcourt on holiday.

Two other men who boarded the boat at Opobo as it sailed from Epellema also got lost in the sea bringing to six the number of persons who lost their lives, last Sunday, in that single tragedy, which sent Opobo Town into deep mourning….

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Ghana : Sunyani to generate electricity from waste

Sunyani (B/A), Aug. 9, GNA - Sunyani Municipal Assembly is collaborating with a German energy company to generate electricity (Biogas) from the large tonnes of waste produced in the municipality.
To this end, the German company, Schafer in Rhinephas, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Assembly and will begin work on the project in January 2011.
Under the MoU, the Germans will invest 10 million Euros in the project, which on completion will supply electricity to more than 100,000 households in the municipality.
Mr Kwasi Oppong-Ababio, Municipal Chief Executive, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at the weekend, said the energy company had finished feasibility studies on the project.
He said the municipal assembly would delegate some management staff to undertake a familiarization visit to the company in Germany by the end of the year.
The tour, Mr Oppong-Ababio said, would help strengthen the assembly's relationship with Schafer and also make the project successful

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Kufuor denies extramarital affairs

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has emphatically denied long-standing allegations that he had an affair with Ms Gizele Yajzi and fathered twins with her.
The name of Ms Yajzi became a household name in 2005 when the Iraqi-American citizen burst onto the media scene with allegations, largely fanned by then opposition National Democratic Congress members, against the then President Kufuor.
Prominent among Ms Yajzi's claims were that Mr Kufuor was the biological father of her twin boys and that he had also purchased the African Regent Hotel.
But in an interaction with the media to mark the nine-year anniversary of the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law under his watch, the former president flatly denied all the allegations leveled against him.
Joy News’ Araba Coomson who was at the meeting reports that Mr. Kufuor said none of the allegations were backed with fact and challenged those who claim to have evidence to come out with them.
He said if he had indeed engaged in any extramarital affair with Ms Gizele Yajzi, he would have informed the wife, Mrs Theresa Kufuor, about the twins, seek forgiveness from her and go for the kids because they would have been “his blood”…

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Hilary Clinton on Human Trafficking

 

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Flood brings pain in Lagos

• Residents seek govt help as weekend rain flood ground city
TEARS streaming down her face, Madam  Julina Obialla , a resident of Ogungbe Street  in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Council of  Lagos State on Saturday evening  told The Guardian:
“Since the death of my husband three years ago ,  I have struggled with my children,  doing whatever we can including menial jobs  to survive. Now, look at what has befallen us. Where do we turn to now? All that we managed to gather over the years have been washed away in the flood.”
The middle-aged woman was lamenting her woes following the rain in Lagos over the weekend and which was light in some areas, was particularly heavy in the mainland,
The rain and flood sort of reminded  Lagosians  that it was not the dry season yet, that the threat of flooding in many parts of the city remain…

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I’m alive, says Obasanjo

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday denied speculations that he was shot by unknown gunmen.
One of the ex-president’s daughters, Bunmi, got married at the weekend at his Hill Top residence in Abeokuta, an occasion which was well-attended.
Obasanjo, who spoke to reporters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday at about 3.00 p.m., said he was also aware of the rumour being spread by people but confirmed that it was not true….

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Nigerian Lawmakers in Free-for-all Fight

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Nigeria : Retired Army General escapes kidnap attack, kills gang member

By Anayo Okoli & Tony Edike

 A retired Army General, Josesph Okoloagu has shot dead  a member of a kidnap gang that attempted to abduct him in Aba, Abia State on Monday.

Okoloagu, a former Nigerian Military attaché to Pakistan, was attacked by suspected kidnappers Monday  night while  travelling to Port-Harcourt in his 604 Peugoet car at Alaoji-Ugwunagbo axis of  Aba – Port-Harcourt expressway.

The Action Congress chieftain was in company of his private driver and a security detail when the heavily armed kidnappers surfaced from a bush and opened fire on his vehicle, forcing it to a halt.

According to eyewitnesses, policemen on duty at a checkpoint 50 yards away from the scene, escaped on hearing sounds of gunshots, leaving Okoloagu and the two other persons in his car at the mercy of the hoodlums.
The young men immediately surrounded the car and one of them moved to grab the already wounded ex- Army General who sat on the car owner’s side of the back seat.

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