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 Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dead at age 80 Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan has died after a short illness, a UN agency confirmed Saturday. Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within the ranks of the United Nations staff. Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." Credit #instablognaija

This is big and needs all the applause available ... Our Nigerian Daughters have done us proud..atleast some good news to breathe on! Five female students from the Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha, Anambra state who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Challenge which held in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, US, won the Gold Medal in the contest. The girls namely Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye, defeated representatives of other technological giants including the USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to win the gold medal. These young ladies in Junior Secondary School, developed a mobile application called 'FD Detector' to tackle the problems of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria. Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems. 115 countries parti...