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The Chief Medical Director of Roding Reproductive Centre, Lagos, Adewunmi Adeyemi-Bero, on Thursday, recommended a relatively new and cheaper method of artificial insemination, known as “vitrification”, to couples who had the challenge of infertility. “The survival rate of vitrified embryos is much higher than that of cryo-preserved embryos,” he said. He explained that embryo survival rate, using the vitrification method,…

Yusuf Maitama Tuggar is the CPC governorship candidate in Bauchi State. He speaks on why he believes the election on Thursday was a sham. In your petition to INEC you alleged that security personnel stopped your party agents from escorting electoral materials to the polling units. How did this happen? Our party agents witnessed the giving of materials to the…

It was not completely unexpected, but the flurry of rejections and protests that have trailed the national elections must have taken officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) aback. Despite the near-universal acclaim of the organisation of the elections and their claim to fairness, hundreds of politicians who lost have faulted the polls. Some of them appear headed for…

In a competition, someone has to lose for a winner to emerge. Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘do or die’ political sentiment is re-echoing where ‘Baba’ does not have a base, and even outside political discourse. Some people will stop at nothing to exploit any and every opportunity to stir up commotion. The spate of violence, particularly in places that can be described…

A youth corps member, Tunde Felix, volunteered to join the Red Cross Society while in the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp and found it quite fascinating to be so engaged in the service of humanity. He enthuses about his experience in the camp, saying it motivates him to willingly be at the service of humanity whenever the need arises.…

But for other guests who stepped in to broker peace, a heated argument between two groups of youth at a bar in a Lagos suburb was on the verge of degenerating into a brawl. “The smokes from their cigarettes were coming in our direction and we told them politely that since we came here before them, they should change their…

“Are you not an Ibo?” I sat in one of those red LTC buses on the way from Ikeja to my job at the Central Bank in Tinubu Square, Lagos, in April 1967. At Ojora, armed soldiers had sauntered into the vehicle at a checkpoint. A dozen men and women earlier bagged at the checkpoint lay face down in a…

The groundswell of opposition against the ruling People's Democratic Party in the north seemed to have petered out. Although voting for the gubernatorial election did not take place in Kaduna, Bauchi, Sokoto, Adamawa and Kogi states, in most of the north where it did take place, the apathy was pervasive. Of course, a major reason for this is fear--as many…

The governorship and House of Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom State were conducted under an atmosphere of peace, despite some skirmishes and cases of ballot box-snatching witnessed in some local governement areas. Fights were witnessed in places like Uyo, the state capital, Nsit Ibom, Etim Ekpo, and Etinan, while two cases of ballot box-snatching were reported in Ibiono Ibom. The…

As the electorate in Kaduna State go to the polls today to elect their next governor and members of the state House of Assembly, everyone is anxious to know who will emerge as the next occupant of Sir Kasim Ibrahim House, the state's seat of power. The incumbent, Patrick Yakowa, who is contesting on the platform of the People's Democratic…

Allegations of fraud in the elections conducted in Cross River State are pouring into the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Calabar. Aggrieved candidates of the defeated parties are calling for their outright cancellation. Notable among the petitioners are Eyo Etim Nyong, Joseph Etene and Cletus Obun of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Victor Okon of…

Following the killing of two members of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti State during the just concluded election, the state chairperson of the party, Jide Awe, has appealed to members of the party to remain calm. A member of the party, identified as Ojo Selewa, was allegedly shot dead in Iludun Ekiti in Ilejemeje local government area…

As normalcy returned to Kaduna State after last week's political mayhem, Muslim and Christian women in the state blamed Nigerian leaders for the loss of lives and property that took place during the crisis. In a joint press conference yesterday in Kaduna, the women of the Interfaith Council of Muslim and Christian Women's Groups said it was inhuman for the…

President Goodluck Jonathan has held meetings with the former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, urging him to work for the victory of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of today's governorship and House of Assembly polls in the state. A reliable source from the presidency said that the president met with Mr Makarfi, the former gubernatorial contestant of the…