thinly sliced raw, but chances are you'll prefer it, cooked. How about deep fried, stir-fried, parboiled, or stuffed? Season bitter melon slices with salt, turmeric, and a little chili and then deep fry or remove the central pith and stuff
Based on its recent analysis of the thin film batteries market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Cymbet Corporation, Inc. with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation of the Year for its contributions to innovative technology development
This in return creates opportunities for UPS upgrades and unit shipments. UPS manufacturers must also be aware that the affects of a depreciating dollar currency, rising commodity prices for steel and iron, and general inflation all shape market dynamics for
This region is all set to benefit from the increasing need for alternative, sustainable, and environment-friendly fuels, since rising oil prices and stringent environmental regulations have made the use of biofuels imperative.
PARIS (Thomson Financial): France and Brazil are expected to sign a 1.2 billion euro helicopter deal on Monday, Les Echos reported. Brazil is set to announce it will buy around 60 Cougar military transport helicopters. The extent of industrial cooperation
CHICAGO: Boeing has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for exceeding value limits on the purchases of parts from foreign suppliers for its military products. Boeing (nyse: BA) spokesman Tim Neale says the Chicago-based company discovered the violations and
Cirrus Design is putting its very light jet program in motion. The company has been developing The-Jet, a single-engine, V-tail airplane, and now the first test version, V1, is being readied for taxi tests. Assuming all goes well, the next
Numerous media reports, today, focus on a single sentence in the 67-page GAO analysis reached yesterday supporting its decision to sustain the Boeing tanker protest. "But for these errors," the GAO stated, "we believe Boeing would have had a substantial
Vandals at the weekend compounded the problem of epileptic power supply to Ilorin, Kwara State, as they vandalised and carted away the Power Holding Company of Nigeria's (PHCN) equipment at Oko Olowo, along Eyienkorin-Jebba Road.
The northern Nigeria socio-cultural apex group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has warned militants of the Niger Delta area to desist from their activities and take to dialogue as a way out of their predicament. Speaking in an exclusive interview with
Militants have again attacked Shell Petroleum Devel-opment Company (SPDC) facilty - Oloma flow Station in Bonny - and allegedly killed four naval personnel and three civilians.
Professor Anthony Afejuku is an Itsekiri activist and the Head of Department (HOD) English and Literature, University of Benin (UNIBEN). In this interview with Sunday Vanguard, he bares his mind on the reasons the crisis in the Niger Delta had
MOVEMENT for Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND) spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, in this brief electronic mail to an enquiry by Sunday Vanguard, speaks on the comments by some people that the group was blowing hot and cold by declaring a cease fire
SPOKESPERSON of the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), which comprises the fighting units of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), the Reformed Niger -Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (R-NDPVF) and some other militia groups in the Niger-Delta, Cynthia Whyte, says
DIRECTOR general ofthe Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), Babatunde Shamshideen Elegba, has disclosed that the only obstacle hindering the installation of nuclear plant in Nigeria is fear of its security and safety.
Before Shell Bonga Oil Field was attacked recently, the United States strategists held the view that militancy is no longer threat to oil exploration and production in the Niger Delta. This is premised on the recent development of off-shore oil
A delegation led by the Oil minister, Desidério Costa, represents Angola since this Sunday, in Madrid, at the 19th World Congress on Petroleum that will, among other issues, debate about the product's price increase and environmental protection due to the
The governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan, took 90 minutes off last Tuesday to share his thoughts with our reporter on the past one year of his administration in Delta, the second largest oil producing state in Nigeria.
The creation of the Excess Crude Account during the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was quite a noble idea. The logic behind it was equally very sound. Not many Nigerians faulted the idea at the time. For a country like
