Published: June 16, 2010
SUBMARINE CABLE- MAIN ONE CABLE THE TRAIL BLASER. |
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The concept of wiring two continents together is far older than most people might know. Telegraphers on both sides of the ocean took up a Shakespearean line from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” where Puck says, “I’ll put a girdle `round the earth in forty minutes.”
The story really began in 1795 when a Spaniard named Salva suggested the idea of underwater telegraphic communication. But nothing significant happened until 1850 when a single wire cable manufactured by the Gutta Percha Company was laid between England and France. International telecommunications had started.
Published: June 12, 2010
Libya Expels UNHRC |
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday it had received a note from Libyan authorities ordering it to close its office in the country.
Published: June 12, 2010
Researchers Closer to Developing Fish Toxin Antidote |
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Scientists believe they have found an antidote to a form of food poisoning from tropical fish that prevents millions of people from eating fish. According to a report on the online news website SciDev.net, ciguatera fish poisoning affects more than 100,000 islanders in the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Indian oceans each year. It is caused by ciguatoxins produced by microscopic Gambierdiscus algae.
Published: June 10, 2010
Engineer Akin Oni |
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“Bristow Nigeria Operations has the largest number of Nigerians at the management level,” Engineer Akin Oni
Published: June 10, 2010
FROM LEFT FOLA ADEOLA AND FUNKE OPEKE ( MD MAIN ONE) |
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Main One Cable Company and its system supplier, Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications (SubCom), Announced that following the on schedule completion of the main lay program by the C.S. Tyco Resolute, the final cable splice made earlier this week, the marine installation program for Phase 1 of the Main One Cable System has been completed on schedule.
Published: May 23, 2010
Spread of AIDS linked to Eradication of Small Pox |
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A new study published this week suggests that smallpox vaccinations could slow the spread of the HIV virus. Trials by US-based scientists indicated that the smallpox jab inadvertently offered some protection against HIV by interfering with how well the virus multiplies.
Published: April 16, 2010
Why Barrister Festus Keyamo Should be sanctioned For His Unethical Conduct |
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I am here concerned with the opinion expressed by a supposed lawyer and a self righteous critic, Festus Keyamo in his column (page 15) in The Sun newspaper of Sunday, February 7, 2010 hereby attached. He said and I quote: “So when I fight in court, I fight in public too because that is where the real justice lies.
Published: April 3, 2010
Rwanda’s First Bio-Diesel Bus Hits the Road. |
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Rwanda has launched its first bio-diesel-powered bus service. The Biodiesel Express made its first trip from the capital Kigali to the town of Akanyuru last week.
Published: April 3, 2010
Sierra Leone Medics Get Huge Pay Rise After Strike |
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A six-fold pay rise for health workers in Sierra Leone was agreed late on Saturday night to end the 10-day old strike. The strike organizer, Dr Freddie Coker, said that doctors would now get a take-home salary of 600 US dollars – up from 100 US dollars a month.
Published: April 3, 2010
Somalis Protest Against Islamic Militants |
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Hundreds of angry demonstrators took to the streets of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on Monday March 29th to protest against the Shabab, a militant Islamist insurgent group that controls half of south central Somalia.
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