ABUJA: A daughter of late presidential claimant Moshood Abiola was among the early winners in first unofficial results of the Nigerian national elections. Lola Abiola-Eduwor won on Sunday in the Apapa constituency of the commercial capital Lagos where she ran on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party. AD was expected to do well in Lagos and other parts of south-western Nigeria which backed the presidential bid of Moshood Abiola, whose 1993 electoral victory was nullified by the military regime revailing at the time. Senatorial and federal elections were part of a programme to end military rule.

`Men can have babies'

LONDON: Advances in medical technology mean men could now bear children, according to one of Britain's leading fertility experts, the Sunday Times reported.The paper, citing a forthcoming book by Lord Winston, says doctors could implant an embryo into a man's abdomen, allowing him to carry it to full term and give birth by caesarean section.Professor Robert Winston, who head a the fertility clinic says, ``Male pregnancy would certainly be possible, and would be the same as when a woman has an ectopic pregnancy -- outside the uterus -- although to sustain it, you'd Have to give the man lots of female hormones,'' the paper quoted him as saying. He outlines the concept in a book due to be published in April.

Winston said such foetuses could be implanted inside the abdomen with the placenta, through which the baby is fed, attached to an internal organ, such as the bowel.The idea of a man giving birth was the plot of the film `Junior' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.