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The Governor is currently in Abuja. Police begin search for lady who allegedly posted the death rumour on internet For the second time in five months, the Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, was rumoured dead on Thursday, causing panic among his relatives, residents of the state and political associates. The rumours reportedly emanated from a “breaking news” story posted on an Internet Website, saying the governor passed away in an Indian Hospital where he was allegedly receiving treatment

  The University of Iowa study of hundreds of people age 50 and older found that those who played a videogame were able to improve a range of cognitive skills, and reverse up to seven years of age-related declines.WASHINGTON, May 2 — Playing videogames can prevent and even reverse deteriorating brain functions such as memory, reasoning and visual processing, according to a study released Wednesday.

Over the past two decades, the mix of diseases and disabilities affecting the health of Ghanaians has transformed. Despite global decreases, infectious diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS continue to kill thousands, while heart disease and stroke are beginning to take a greater toll on the health of citizens. These are some of the findings from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Country-specific findings, including for many countries in East Africa, were announced in March, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, by IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray and Foundation Co-chair and Trustee Bill Gates.

A new camera is breaking barriers A new digital camera designed by a team of scientists literally sees what bugs see. The camera’s design recreates the structure of insects’ eyes to project a fuller, wider, and more focused view than is possible with even the best conventional digital cameras today. Fire ants and bark beetles were the specific model for this camera, according to a report that the researchers, one of whom is John Rogers, a University of Illinois chemistry and physics professor, published in the May 2 edition of Nature . The report explains that the eye of one of these bugs consists of 200-500 long, cylindrical units called omatidia, each of which includes a cornea connected to a photosensitive organ and surrounded by dark pigment to keep light on one lens from leaking into another lens. All of these omatidia cluster together, with the lens facing outward, to form the bulging multicellular eye shape that we all associate with the insect kingdom. The only key differenc...

Skype for Windows 8 gets a video messaging feature SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has updated its Skype application on Windows 8 with a video messaging feature, for those who can't be bothered to type. Unsurprisingly, this new Skype feature, which is available now in Preview form , lets the handful of Windows 8 owners in the wild record a message to send to a friend. Video messages can be sent even if the recipient is unavailable, so you can give your friends a surprise when they return online.

  Twenty years ago this week the World Wide Web's technology became publicly available. To mark the event, the first-ever website has been recreated and republished. The web began at CERN, a research facility for particle physics in Switzerland. In recent years it has become well known for housing the Large Hadron Collider instrument used to hunt down the Higgs Boson, a previously undetected particle that could help explain how the universe works.

The latest iteration of Microsoft Office for the small enterprise, Microsoft Office 365 for small business, is according to value-added distributor Comztek, fast levelling the playing field in applications as a service and cloud computing. Microsoft Office 365 for small business is fast levelling the playing field in applications as a service and cloud computing (image: Microsoft) According to David Caygill, business unit director at Comztek, the new software is an easy-to-use set of web-enabled tools that let you access your email, important documents, contacts, and calendar from almost anywhere and any device. The real benefit of this new platform is that it is hardware agnostic, and by any device they simply mean you can now access all your documents from your PC, Mac, iPhone, Android phone, or BlackBerry smartphones. “Office 365 is as intuitive as it is easy to deploy. It integrates seamlessly with the programmes you already know, such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Micro...

A Karu, Abuja, Upper Area Court has remanded 42-year-old Rufua Alabi in prison custody after he was arraigned for impregnating his 16-year-old daughter. The prosecutor, Cpl Pascal Njoku told the court that Alabi of Kurudu Village, Abuja, committed the offence sometime last year, following which the daughter was carrying a six-months-old pregnancy for him. He said that the girl’s mother, Bose reported the matter at the Jikwoyi Police Station, after she found out that her daughter was pregnant and that Bose took her daughter to the hospital where a doctor confirmed that she was pregnant. He said the victim confessed to her mother and the elder brother that her father was responsible for her pregnancy. “My father on many occasions, had sexual intercourse with me when nobody was at home and warned me never to tell anybody about the affair,” the girl [name withheld] revealed. The offence is contrary to the Penal Code. The presiding judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko ordered that Alabi’s bail appl...