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The Akwa Ibom State Government has described an alleged assassination attempt on Chief Sunny Udom as 'bare-faced falsehood and blackmail,' designed to 'taint and tarnish the hard-earned image, integrity and reputation' of the Governor Goodswill Akpabio-led administration.
A governorship aspirant in the state and former Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Umana Okon Umana, in a petition titled: 'State of Insecurity in Akwa Ibom State and the threats to lives of political opponents of Governor Akpabio' which emanated from the chambers of Uzomah Ibegbulem and Co, to the Inspector-General of Police (IG), had alleged that the Director-General of his campaign organisation Udom, narrowly escaped assassination when gunmen numbering about five attacked his office complex in Umo Essien Street, off Obio Imo Street, the state capital.
But describing the content of the petition as 'wicked lies and utter falsehood,' deliberately put in the public domain to misinform unsuspecting members of the public and hoodwink them into believing what he,tagged as 'baseless allegations', the state Commissioner for Information and Communications; Mr. Aniekan Umanah, said Udom only misconstrued armed robbery attack as assassination attempt and made to heap the blame on the governor for political reasons.
'It is unfortunate that a robbery incident at the office of Udom has been misconstrued as an assassination attempt. It is on record that the State Security Service (SSS) had since smashed an armed robbery gang, and subsequently paraded them before the press, for which they made confessional statements as those responsible for the attack on Udom's office on May 6,  at No. 7 Umoh Essien Street, off Obio Imo Street, Uyo,' he said.

PSL is a centre of engineering excellence in the design come and L now Eurofins Buys ViraCor-IBT For $155 Million

 PSL is a centre of engineering excellence in the design and manufacture of filter dryers from small-scale synthesis production to full process systems. Our filtration and drying equipment are extremely efficient and ergonomically designed for washing and isolating solids, even in the most difficult production processes.

WELLESLEY, Mass. - Ampersand Capital Partners has completed the sale of majority owned portfolio company ViraCor-IBT Laboratories ("VIBT" or "ViraCor") to Eurofins Scientific for $255 million. VIBT is a premier specialty testing laboratory, providing complex, high-value diagnostic tests to 550 institutional clients and more than 4,000 affiliated clinicians across the US with an emphasis on the transplant market. The company will continue to be known as ViraCor-IBT, operating from its large, state-of-the art facility in the Kansas City area and its satellite laboratory in California.
Ampersand created VIBT in 2009 through the merger of two independent laboratories in theKansas City area. Following this merger, Ampersand worked with VIBT's management to integrate the two operations and execute a buy-and-build growth strategy, resulting in two add-on acquisitions over the ensuing years. This successful strategy has resulted in one of the broadest menus of highly-specialized, complex diagnostic tests available for infectious disease, immunology and allergy complications.  In addition, the company provides industry-leading turn-around times for its most time-sensitive tests, which assists physicians in making quicker treatment decisions of critically-ill patients, particularly transplant patients.

THE WORLD AROUND US MAINLY PERECEPTED THROGH EYES

Although, the world around us mainly percepted through eyes, we forget the fact that our eyes are like small cameras, living optical devices whose lenses, drawing pictures on the retina, obey to the same physical laws which describe the behaviour of a polished piece of glass, the collecting lens.

There is no comparable discovery of humanity like the collecting lens. The immense outer space and the infinite small can be viewed by lenses. Only by means of lenses, Galilei brought us the boundless universe and, Leeuwenhoek discovered living creatures not bigger than a few microns. The polished glasses really meant a revolution to the relationship of humans and their environment. With microscope lenses, one can have a closer look to nature and observe details which are usually out of sight and hidden from our busy daily life.

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New Delhi,

The mystery surrounding the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, has deepened after a preliminary autopsy report said it was “sudden and unnatural”. The body was also said to have certain injury marks.

Pushkar, 52, was found dead in a five-star hotel suite on Friday night after her husband returned from the All India Congress Committee session. She was cremated on Saturday evening.

The couple is said to have checked into the hotel because their official residence was being painted and fumigated.

A few days before her death, an upset Pushkar had tweeted and spoken to the media about her husband’s alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist. Later, a joint statement by the couple was posted on Facebook, saying all was well with their marriage.

S. Gupta, head of the forensic sciences department at AIIMS, told reporters that the final autopsy report would be ready in the next couple of days, after toxicological analysis and visco-pathological examination reports come in.

He refused to give details of the injuries found on the body, saying that as police were working on the case, certain issues could not be revealed. “Basically, in medico-legal cases, the number of injuries does not matter. Whether these injuries were related to fatality or not matters,” he added.

Meanwhile, certain reports saying that Pushkar was suffering from a ‘grave’ disease were denied by a doctor who treated her in Thiruvananthapuram.

Doctors, led by G. Vijayaraghavan, told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram that she was not suffering from any grave illness, and added that “as is the practice, we are unable to share the details of her illness with the media”. 

Igboezuo State Best Represents The Parity Nigerians Intended For Southeast By

Creation of a new state has always been a hot-button issue since the inception of Nigeria. The very first – the creation of two protectorates of North and South was by sheer colonial fiat and it was easier because the British did not care to have any local input. They figured it was not necessary anyway since they did it mainly for their own administrative convenience and to drive the colonial agenda of ‘divide and rule’.

 

The second, which split Nigeria into three large regions of East, West and North was done in some recognition that Nigeria comprised of three major nationalities (Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani). The British reckoned that the smaller nationalities will have to make do with co-existing with their larger neighbors. What emerged was a mixed federal-unitary system that mimicked the Union of England, Scotland and Ireland in the British homeland. That stuck for awhile despite the agitations by the various minority groups for their own separate regions.

 

The third, which led to the birth of the Midwest region (after independence) was largely driven by the then dominant NCNC which wanted to contain the Action Group through the creation of a region out of the Western Region. Some called it the Welsh of Nigeria – a fourth dimension of sorts to complete the mimicry of the ‘three-plus-one’ arrangement of the British homeland that included the Welsh as a fourth region.

 

The fourth creation of states (not regions anymore) was by Gowon in 1966 and it was targeted against the monolithic (read: separatist and feared) Eastern Region and their allies in the Midwest. Simply put, it was just meant to defeat the gathering secessionist drumbeats. To Gowon’s credit, the balance of power between the North and South was maintained in a 12-state structure.

 

The fifth by Murtala was meant to correct the imbalances and inequities (rightly or wrongly) of the harried creation done by Gowon and also to break up the regional power hegemons. Thus, greater considerations were given to balance between the large tribes and neo-minority enclaves; yet, somehow, the Igbo were left marginalized. That concluded the first wave of state creations by military fiat. The coming of Shagari brought a lull due to the constitutional restrictions on creation of more states. When Buhari came, 

Dozens killed in Nigeria market bomb attack and mor people dead

A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a market in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city that is the birthplace of Boko Haram Islamic extremists, reducing stalls, goods and vehicles to piles of trash. Dozens of people are feared dead, witnesses said.

They blamed Boko Haram extremists who are accused of a series of recent bomb attacks in the West African nation.

Tuesday's explosives were hidden under a load of charcoal in a pickup van, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

Trader Daba Musa Yobe, who works near the popular market, said the bomb went off just after the market opened at 8 a.m., before most traders or customers had arrived.

Stalls and goods were reduced to debris as were the burned-out hulks of five cars and some tricycle taxis set ablaze by the explosion.

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The Nigerian government is focusing more on its PR strategy and silencing criticism

Now that most celebrities have got bored of the bringbackourgirls campaign, the Nigerian government has hired a top US PR firm to try and save face, as Boko Haram continues to hold more than 200 schoolgirls hostage. Hannah Strange reports on President Goodluck Jonathan's latest approach

he Nigerian military haven't had an easy life of late. Already struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency waged by Boko Haram, seemingly impotent in the face of now almost daily attacks, barely able to set foot in the country's north, and widely derided as bumbling, corrupt or just downright abusive - they now find themselves landed with the almost impossible task of 'Bringing Back Our Girls'. All while under an unforgiving international spotlight, that largely regards them as a third rate force and pours over their every failing as a source of national shame, often with an inconveniently catchy hashtag