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Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun A chief of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, has said the newly-registered All Progressives Congress and the emerging Labour Party in Ogun will not pose any threat to the electoral fortunes of the party in the state come 2015 elections. Kashamu said this on Sunday evening at a rally in Ado-Odo/Ota during which 500 members of the new APC and LP defected to the PDP. He alleged that while the people of Ogun State had continued to show disaffection with the style of the Action Congress of Nigeria-led government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the emerging LP had been burdened by the image of its promoters, whom he said become politically irrelevant. The ACN is one of the political parties that merged to form the APC. He said, “In 2011, the fight within the PDP and the fact that the people wanted a change, combined to deny the PDP of victory. Now, our people have tasted the change and it is bitter. “The tru...

The world’s first lab-grown burger has been cooked and eaten at a news conference in London. Scientists took cells from a cow and turned them into strips of muscle, which were then combined and made into a patty. English chef, Richard McGowan, was given the task of preparing the burger for food critics Hanni Ruetzler and Josh Schonwald, who, overall, gave a positive response. Researchers said the technology could help with meeting the growing demand for meat worldwide. “I think most people just don’t realise that the current meat production is at its maximum and is not going to supply sufficient meat for the growing demand in the next 40 years, so we need to come up with an alternative, there’s no question. And this can be an ethical and environmentally friendly way to produce meat,” the scientist behind the burger, Professor Mark Post, from Maastricht University explained. He and his team are using similar techniques to researchers involved in growing human tissue fr...

A cocktail of options on how to bridge Nigeria’s infrastructure financing gap yesterday resulted in a senior government minister, Shamsudeen Usman, minister, national planning, saying “Nigeria needs about $2.9 trillion in the next 30 years to execute its integrated infrastructure master plan.” Usman told the audience on the first day of ongoing roundtable by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that going by the national integrated infrastructure master plan, “the nation needs an average of $25 billion annual spend between 2014 and 2043.” About 35 percent to 40 percent stock of Nigeria’s infrastructure remain below the international benchmark of 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, meaning that Nigeria needs to up its infrastructure stock to at least 70 percent in the next 30 years. According to Usman, the integrated infrastructure master plan comes out of government’s realisation that when it creates the enabling environment, the private sector will thrive...