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Three weeks after Prof. Maduike Ezeibe of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abia State claimed to have discovered a cure for Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), Spanish scientists over the weekend said five patients living with the disease are virus-free seven months after taking a new vaccine.According to a study published in New Scientist but first reported by DailyMailUK Online, the treatment, developed by researchers in Spain, allowed the patients to stop taking regular antiretroviral (ARV) drugs – the current method of suppressing HIV.Scientists have yet to test the results in alarge-scale clinical trial, but they say the vaccine may be a “functional cure.”It is the first step towards success in a field that has failed to find a vaccine in the last 30 years.Dr. Beatriz Mothe, from the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, said: “It’s the proof of concept that through therapeutic vaccina...

Leicester City Football Club has tonight (Thursday) parted company with its First Team Manager, Claudio Ranieri. Assistant Manager Craig Shakespeare and First Team Coach Mike Stowell will be taking charge of the squad ahead of the game against Liverpool on Monday until a new manager is appointed. Ranieri was appointed by the club in July 2015 and he led the Foxes to the greatest triumph in the Club’s 133-year history last season - they were crowned Premier League champions for the first time. However, 6 months into the season, Leicester have 21 points from 23 games (17th) and are battling relegation. To read full article: https://goo.gl/vl3kM9

⢝׊ Big news from NASA today--- In their much-talked about press conference today, NASA announcedߔȠthat its Spitzer Space Telescopeߔdiscovered something special: not 1 but 7 earth-like planets all orbiting a single star. Well, where have we seen that before.... What makes this announcement all the more astonishingߘis that this star system is just 40 light years away from earth and that 3 of the planets discovered are within what we would call the ‘habitable zone. The new star system was found in the constellation Aquarius and is called the TRAPPIST-1

EUROPE(UEFA) • Manchester city - Monaco-------(Draw no bet---1) ENGLAND *CHAMPIONSHIP • Huddersfield - Reading------(Handicap(0:1)---2) *NATIONAL LEAGUE • Tranmare - Borehamwood ------(Draw on bet---1) ASIA(AFC)---AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE • AL-AIN FC - Zob Ahan ------(Draw no bet---1)

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday said the Federal Government would at the appropriate time convert the new official residence being built for the Vice President to another use. Osinbajo said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, amid continued criticism of the project which is expected to gulp over N7b. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye, had disclosed recently that only the security post, also known as gateman's house, in the building will gulp N250m. To read full article - https://goo.gl/HpxgnP

Rolls-Royce has reported £4.6bn ($5.7bn) annual loss largely due to currency depreciation and payment of $808m fine to affected countries where it was involved in corrupt practices. According to a news agency, The Nerve, the motoring company had last month (January) apologised for the corruption case that centred around allegations that the group hired middlemen to broker deals in a number of countries including Nigeria, South Africa and Angola. In 2016, Rolls-Royce and its agent company in Nigeria, PSL Engineering and Control, ordered to supply gas turbines to power plants in the oil states of Bayelsa and Delta, were accused of various projects, especially to Oghareki power plant in Delta that cost $100m but was never completed. To read full article - https:// goo.gl /Ig3Kkw

La Liga’s second-bottom side beat Real Betis 4-1 as they continue to fight against relegation. And, manager, Lucas Alcaraz, has made history by naming an XI made up of players from different countries — an occurrence never before seen in Spain. On-loan Manchester United midfielder, Andreas Pereira, was among the starters in the multicultural side. Granada’s starting XI was: Guillermo Ochoa, Mexico Dimitri Foulquier, France Martin Hongla, Cameroon Sverrir Ingi Ingason, Iceland Hector Hernandez Ortega, Spain Gaston Silva, Uruguay Uche Henry Agbo, Nigeria Mubarak Wakaso, Ghana Andreas Pereira, Brazil Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez, Morocco Adrian Ramos, Colombia. To read full article - https:// goo.gl / MGwBxm