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(FRANKS..) Actress Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against cancer. Writing in the New York Times , Jolie said she had the surgery last week as she carries a gene that gave her a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer. Two years ago, Jolie, whose mother died from cancer, had a double mastectomy. "It is not easy to make these decisions," she said. "But it is possible to take control and tackle head-on any health issue." Jolie, who is married to Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, elected to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed after a check-up two weeks ago. Media caption Angelina Jolie spoke to BBC Breakfast in 2014 about her plans for further surgery In the article, titled Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery, she said a blood test revealed "a number" of elevated inflammatory markers that could be a sign of early cancer, and was told to see a surgeon immediately. "I wen...

(FRANKS..) An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne, French aviation officials and police have said. The jet belongs to the German airline Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa. The plane, flight 4U 9525, had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and six crew. French President Francois Hollande said: "The conditions of the accident, which have not yet been clarified, lead us to think there are no survivors." Mr Hollande said the crash was a tragedy, adding that the area was very difficult to access. French Alps crash: Live updates Mr Hollande later called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express his sympathy, the French presidency said. The plane issued a distress call at 10:47 (09:47 GMT), the French interior ministry said, although details have not been released. Search-and-rescue teams are headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels, said regional council head Eric Ciotti. Anal...

(FRANKS..)                  MISS PRAYER ONUEGBU  i think she is looking good.   for sponsorship and info call : 08164982239  Recently Miss. Prayer  Onuegbu changed her picture . isn't she beautiful in her outfit. Miss Prayer Onuegbu is an ambitious student of Abia State University Uturu on the verge to be a top model...

(FRANKS..) (CNN) South African doctors have achieved what they call the world's first successful penile transplant operation. The nine-hour operation occurred on December 11, 2014, involving a team of doctors at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town and others from Tygerberg Hospital. The young man, whose identity "is being protected for ethical reasons," has made a full recovery -- a result which the doctors did not expect to occur until about December 2016. The recovery includes, "restoration of all the patient's urinary and reproductive functions," according to a university press release Friday. "It's a massive breakthrough. We've proved that it can be done" said Professor Frank Graewe, head of the division of plastic reconstructive surgery at Stellenbosch University. "We can give someone an organ that is just as good as the one that he had." The patient's penis was amputated after complications ...

(FRANKS..) (CNN) ISIS kidnapped about 20 medical workers with the Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte, Libya, on Monday during an attack on the facility, according to a hospital official. A group of more than 30 gunmen from the Islamic State attacked the hospital while a bus was waiting to take the workers, who are not Libyan, to the capital of Tripoli. Most of the abductees are from the Philippines. Others are from Ukraine, India and Serbia, said the hospital official. The official believes the ISIS gunmen didn't want the staff to leave the city because they are the only medical team there if they needed them for the group's wounded and injured. Sirte lies halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. The city was the final major stronghold of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in the Libyan civil war. Gadhafi was killed there. ISIS abducts foreign oil workers in Libya 02:04 PLAY VIDEO ISIS took control of the city late last year, including the...

(FRANKS..) At least 50 people have been killed and many others wounded in a series of suicide bomb attacks in Nigeria. The attacks were carried out in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state where the militant Islamist group Boko Haram originates from. A total of five explosions went off at two busy markets and a bus terminal near a government security service building, at least two were set off by female bombers and another by a teenage boy. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

(FRANKS..) Zero Freitas has been obsessed with music since he was a little boy growing up in Brazil. Since buying his first record as a teenager, he has steadily built up a collection of vinyl to rival any in the world. Now in his 60s, Freitas owns more than 5 million records, thanks largely to his fortune built operating a bus company in Sao Paulo. He buys discs from all over the world and employs a team to process and catalogue them. Zero's ultimate ambition is to create a vinyl library accessible to the whole world. BBC News went to meet Zero Freitas and find out why he was driven to collect records. Producer: Luis Kawaguti

(FRANKS..) A fatal accident occurred this morning March 17th around 6:50am along General Hospital Road, Ikorodu. The disaster happened when a tanker carrying fuel lost control and ran into a popular cow market known as Odo-eran and burst into flames. One unidentified man was burnt to death while a few were seriously injured and have been taken to the hospital. See more pics from the incident after the cut...  

(FRANKS..) ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS HER NEW FACE. Following the just concluded pageantry competition, MISS ONUEGBU PRAYER won as the new face of ABSU amidst other contestants. Miss prayer who is a student of ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY in the department of political science.     Check out the new face of ABSU…. Isn’t she adorable?                                                                                                                            for sponsorship and inquiry call :08164982239

(FRANKS..) Abia state university celebrated with her newly emered winner of Miss Absu. Miss. Chiadi Esther wins. Heloo Absu,Here is our beauty peagent who won Miss Absu 2014/2015 contest.Miss chiadi Esther beat the two other contestant to win the noble crown,the pretty damsel who was former miss Jass was immediately crowned during the the just held SUG Award night.the pretty queen is a 300level student of the faculty of jass. wooow aint she beautiful?

(FRANKS..) Find the EFCC Press statement below... The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a suspected fraudster, Obiechina Chikeluba for allegedly swindling Kieran Oakes, a UK citizen, the sum of £54,000 (equivalent of N20m) in love scam. Chikeluba, a 21-year-old student of Federal Science and Technical College Yaba, Lagos, met the victim on Facebook sometime in 2013. The suspect, using the assumed profile of an American, Lisa Jackson, entered into a relationship with Oakes, with the pair agreeing to get married. In the course of their relationship, ‘Jackson’ at various times collected money to the tune of £54,000 from Oakes, to enable him travel to the UK to meet her. After an endless wait for her fiancé, it dawned on the Briton that she had been conned, and consequently petitioned the EFCC. Operatives of the Commission arrested Chikeluba in a sting operation on February 24, 2015 in Lagos while attempting to collect a parcel sent to hi...