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February 27, 2012

Mineseeker Operations management team flew to Johannesburg, South Africa yesterday for a series of important meetings concerning the Memorandum of Understanding signed earlier this month.

Mineseeker has already formed a joint venture company (Mineseeker Southern Africa Ltd) and will be opening negotiations for aerial survey contracts aimed at liberating large sections of land affected by unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Mineseeker CEO, Mike Kendrick and Commercial Director Mark Dorey are visiting the area for four days of meetings, scheduled with governments and stakeholders representing the contaminated areas, with a view to formalizing and scoping the projects, and establishing the commercial structure and pricing of the potential contracts.

Mineseeker will also be meeting representatives of several other Southern African countries to discuss the way in which the company’s unique multi-spectral imaging radar system could bring benefit in helping to combat the problems they face with landmines and unexploded remnants of war.

In keeping with the company’s aims of not just releasing the land affected by mines, but also establishing sustainable futures for the local populations, under its strategy of compassionate capitalism, a meeting has been scheduled with one of South Africa’s largest retail chains to discuss the Aid Free Zone marketing and retail proposition. The company will be looking for further investment partners in order to meet its objectives in the region and will meet with a company that has made a specific proposal for the funding of the coconut factory in Mozambique. Pursuant to this Mineseeker is investigating restructuring the Aid Free Zone business to accommodate the offer, with the benefit of reducing ongoing funding requirements as the business grows.

Chief Executive, Mike Kendrick commented, ‘This is a very important series of meetings for us as a company and this is the culmination of a considerable amount of work by our regional Managing Director, Eric du Plessis, in bringing this through to fruition’.

‘It is clear that the governments in Southern Africa are determined to return as much land to their people as possible and Mineseeker can offer a cost effective means of helping them achieve this humanitarian goal, in a shorter time frame than previously deliverable’.

A report of the outcomes of the meeting will be made available on the return of the management team to the UK.

February 1, 2012

I am pleased to publish a Strategic Overview, outlining the business units that will make up Seeker Technologies Inc., and look forward to completing the filings to enable us to rename NHSH in line with our overall corporate branding.  There is a lot of interest in our business and in the sectors in which we are operating, with substantial opportunities to be pursued and developed during the course of 2012.

We will be making a number of further releases and updates as we anticipate making substantial progress with both Mineseeker Operations and our Aid Free Zone programmes over the forthcoming weeks and months.

Edward Cross – Chief Executive Officer

Click here to view the Strategic Overview

January 26, 2012

Mineseeker’s Operations Director, Richard Trueman, is embarking on a series of important flight training courses in order to further develop his already impressive qualifications on rotary wing aircraft.

Over the next few months, Richard will spend a considerable amount of time completing essential training to comply with the new European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Licence requirements. This will ensure that his test pilot status will be fully recognised when the new regulatory framework comes into place, as well as converting his previous military Instrument Flight Rules qualification into its civil equivalent.

Richard commented, ‘this is a great opportunity for me and will mean that Mineseeker complies with the most up to date pilot qualification requirements in its flying operations’.

‘It will also allow me to take an active role in the certification process of the company’s sensor technology on new aerial platforms’, he added.

In addition Richard will also be undertaking training and operations of unmanned aerial vehicles and evaluating their suitability as an operating platform for Mineseeker in the future.

The company has agreed to release Richard for 2-3 days per week in order for him to concentrate on both manned and unmanned flying over forthcoming months, after which it is anticipated that he will revert to his full time role with the company.  Richard will continue to act as Operations Director during this time, although he will not take a seat on the Board again until he returns to his role in managing, full time, the day to day business of the company.

NHS Health Solutions, Inc. (Pinksheets–NHSH) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Mineseeker Operations Overseas Limited (“Mineseeker” or “Company”), a British Virgin Islands corporation, has made significant advancements toward its target to be under revenue by the second quarter of 2012.

The company has invested in excess of $200,000 during the past five months, in order for the data collected during trials in Croatia to be processed and finalised.  These images, proving the success of the technology, will be presented to the numerous clients with whom Mineseeker is currently in negotiation. Mineseeker will also make available samples of the images to the market in general.   The ground penetrating radar images will be layered with the visual images in a mosaic to create the unique MIR product enabling the Company to undertake effective landmine detection at a fraction of the cost and time used of conventional methods.

The management team have been asked to travel to Mozambique this month in order to present the results of the trials to government ministers responsible for humanitarian demining and the oil and gas sectors.   Mineseeker is extremely confident that it will secure letters of intent for both the humanitarian projects and for the liberation of land in the oil and gas concessions as a result of these meetings.

The results from the Croatia trial and demonstration will be presented to the humanitarian demining community in a key note speech at a leading industry conference in April, 2012.

CEO Mike Kendrick is also pleased to be able to announce an Agreement with Morgan Aircraft LLC, which can be seen in detail on the Mineseeker website (http://www.mineseeker.com).

ALL INQUIRIES REGARDING THIS NOTICE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE FOLLOWING CONTACT:

NHS Health Solutions, Inc.–Investor Relations

IR@nhshinc.com

(843) 410-8499

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This release contains forward-looking statements that relate to future events or performance. These statements reflect the company’s current expectations and are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  The company does not undertake to update or revise these forward-looking statements, even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied in this or other company statements will not be realized. Furthermore, readers are cautioned that these statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company’s control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.  Factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to, the acceptance of our products, lack of revenue growth, failure to realize profitability, inability to raise capital and market conditions that negatively affect the market price of our common stock. The Company disclaims any responsibility to update any forward-looking statements.

Morgan Aircraft and Mineseeker Operations Announce Cooperation Agreement

9th January 2012

Wisconsin USA-based Morgan Aircraft LLC and UK-based Mineseeker Operations announced today that the two organizations have signed a strategic co-operation agreement to jointly develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform that can, in addition to serving many other needs, be customized to meet the mission requirements of Mineseeker Operations.

Morgan Aircraft is developing a unique vertical lift UAV which combines the operational advantages of a helicopter with the range and speed of a fixed-wing aircraft, but with none of the tilting parts which have plagued other such programs in the past.

Mineseeker Operations’ primary focus is the safe and cost effective mapping and clearing of mines and other unexploded ordnance from former and current war-zones. To facilitate this, Mineseeker has developed a unique airborne visual overlay technology which can detect and map surface and sub-surface objects using multi-spectral images and radar (MIR™). The new Morgan Aircraft UAV platform should bring significant advantages by meeting or exceeding the capability of the current Mineseeker aerial platform in a more cost effective manner.

In making the announcement, Mineseeker Executive Chairman Mike Kendrick stated, “The UN estimates there are more than a hundred million landmines buried on the face of the planet. Our proprietary mapping technology can hugely speed the process of locating and charting these. However, to do this we require a sensor platform that is stable, cost efficient, reliable and is capable of deployment in some pretty remote and inhospitable terrain. We currently have a platform that meets our requirements but the potential of the Morgan Aircraft product to allow us to operate even more effectively while reducing costs would allow us to help blighted nations be rid of the landmine menace faster than present technologies permit. When we met Morgan Aircraft it was truly a eureka moment!”

Brian Morgan, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of seven-year-old Morgan Aircraft responded, “We have developed a UAV that is capable of conducting a wide range of missions, but when we were introduced to Mineseeker we realized our platform would be a perfect fit for their humanitarian efforts to map the minefields that plague hundreds of thousands of square miles of the earth’s surface. Compared to the cost of operating helicopters, our powered-lift fixed-wing UAV will greatly reduce Mineseeker’s operating costs with projected savings in excess of 50 percent in both fuel and maintenance expenses.”

When Morgan’s first full-scale aircraft has met or exceeded performance expectations and completed appropriate safety standards checks, the two companies will start working on the development of a MIR sensor-supporting ‘Morgan Mineseeker’ airframe which will be a custom variant of the standard Morgan UAV platform.

November 29, 2011

Responsibly Developing Mine Affected Areas

UNITED KINGDOM—November 29, 2011—Mineseeker Operations and EnerVue Oil & Gas Inc. announced today, an exclusive partnership to work together in oil and gas markets affected by landmines and other unexploded remnants of war.

Mineseeker, a leading aerial mine survey and mapping organisation announced its new partnership with EnerVue, an independent Canadian oil and gas company, for the sustainable development of mine affected lands.  Mineseeker and EnerVue intend to jointly create implementation strategies for the development of oil and gas in mine affected areas.  As each company focuses on its core competencies, the partnership creates the opportunity for rapid development in affected markets.

‘Mineseeker is currently involved in discussions with several governments and other organisations holding oil and gas concessions in both Africa and the Middle East and we are excited about the prospect of working with EnerVue to develop sustainable oil and gas businesses in countries affected by landmines,” commented Mike Kendrick, Executive Chairman of Mineseeker. “EnerVue shares our view on compassionate capitalism, and sees the opportunity to deliver economic growth for the local populations in these countries, as well as value for investors and governments alike. For Mineseeker, it offers the opportunity to create new markets in aerial surveying and share in oil and gas revenues emanating from the introductions we make to EnerVue that result in oil and gas concessions being awarded to the Partnership.”

EnerVue is an independent, highly respected, Canadian oil and gas company led by a team of experienced industry professionals. EnerVue brings appropriate technical and pragmatic expertise to properly implement petroleum development strategies which meet the ongoing needs of a country and its people with regards to its oil and gas industry.

EnerVue President and CEO, Marcel Zowtuk, commented, “What unites us is a common interest to responsibly demine land where petroleum opportunities exist. We recognize that an interdisciplinary partnership benefits all parties involved, including the original stakeholders.   Proper front end framework effectively leads to efficient development and implementation strategies and this partnership makes all of that possible”.   “Together, we have the ability to help each other, help many”, he added.

“I am excited about this partnership with Mineseeker,” expressed Scott Douglas, EnerVue’s Vice President. “We believe the responsible development of natural resources is paramount in propelling a country’s economic sovereignty and are committed to adding value to Mineseeker’s compassionate capitalism projects.”

The two companies are also in discussions regarding an equity investment into Mineseeker, which will further cement the relationship between the two companies.

Mineseeker Chairman Mike Kendrick is due to visit Mozambique imminently where negotiations are scheduled to discuss oil and gas concessions in Mozambique and Angola.

The Mozambique Government is keen to move ahead in the liberation of oil and gas concessions to enable petroleum companies to begin the process of seismological surveys. The government will also discuss awarding selected concessions to Mineseeker, which Enervue will participate in.

Scott Douglas will also sit on the Mineseeker Foundation advisory board which will share in and benefit from the revenues created by the partnership.

EnerVue Oil and Gas – www.enervue.ca

November 27, 2011

Mineseeker is delighted to announce that it has signed a partnership agreement with a leading North American oil and gas company to develop opportunities in mine affected oil and gas markets.

Mineseeker is currently talking to governments and other organisations in Africa and the Middle East to help liberate mine affected land with potential for oil and gas production.

As the office is now closed in the UK, we will be making a more complete statement next week.

November 23, 2011

Published today, Landmine Monitor 2011 has identified three governments laying antipersonnel mines: Israel, Libya, and Myanmar.

•    This is an increase since the previous report, with confirmed new use in Israel and Libya.
•    Use by non-state armed groups was confirmed in four countries—Afghanistan, Colombia, Myanmar, and Pakistan—down from six countries in the last report.

The Monitor identified 12 producers of antipersonnel mines (the same number as reported in 2010 and the lowest total ever): China, Cuba, India, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, the United States (US), and Vietnam.

A total of 4,191 new casualties were recorded in 2010, 5% more than in 2009 when 4,010 casualties were identified.
•    The slight increase in recorded casualties is not yet indicative of a trend, due to poor quality of casualty data in some countries. The 2010 total is, however, lower than the 5,502 casualties recorded for 2008.
•    Due to incomplete data collection, the actual number of casualties was certainly higher than what was recorded.

A total of 72 states, as well as seven disputed areas, were confirmed or suspected to be mine-affected.
•    Emergency risk education is needed in Colombia, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Somalia; Libya, too, became a risk education priority following the outbreak of armed conflict in February 2011.

At least 200km2 of mined areas were cleared by 45 mine action programs in 2010, the highest annual total ever recorded by the Monitor (compared with 198km2 in 2009, the previous record, and 160 km2 in 2008).
•    More than 388,000 antipersonnel mines and over 27,000 anti-vehicle mines were destroyed during this clearance.
•    The largest total clearance of mined areas was achieved by programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Croatia, Iraq, and Sri Lanka, which together accounted for more than 80% of recorded clearance.
•    An additional 460km2 of former battle area was reportedly cleared, destroying in the process more than 1.2 million items of unexploded ordnance. The largest totals were reported in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Lao PDR.

Victim assistance in 2010 benefitted from a reoriented focus on service accessibility and availability, as well as some early efforts in a few states to combine the implementation of various complementary legal instruments.
•    However, these improvements were at least in part offset by increases in armed violence that eroded accessibility and availability of services in several states with significant numbers of survivors.
•    Donors reported providing US$43.6 million to support victim assistance activities, an increase of over $5 million from the previous year. However, this is only 9% of the global total of international assistance for mine action, the same percentage of total funding as in 2009.

Donors and affected states contributed approximately $637 million in international and national support for mine action in 2010.
•    31 donors contributed $480 million in international support for mine action in 57 affected states and areas, an increase of $34 million from 2009.
•    This is the largest amount of donor contributions recorded by the Monitor and the fifth consecutive year that international contributions totalled over $400 million per year.
•    Contributions from the top five mine action donors—the US, European Commission, Japan, Norway, and Canada—accounted for 64% of all donor funding.
•    The top six recipient states—Afghanistan, Angola, Iraq, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia —received 55% of all international mine action contributions in 2010.
•    Twenty-four affected states provided $157 million in national support for mine action towards their own mine action programs, a decrease of $7 million from 2009, with lower contributions from Croatia and Angola accounting for most of the decrease.

The full report can be downloaded here: http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php

BBC coverage of the report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15849477

November 4, 2011

NEW LANDMINE DETECTION TECHNOLOGY TO ASSIST IN LANDMINE CLEARANCE PROGRAMS

LONDON - A leading British firm at the forefront of landmine detection capability has today confirmed that it is to offer humanitarian assistance and to restart negotiations on a major landmine clearance program with Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) and its newly appointed interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib.

The offer of humanitarian assistance was made after Mineseeker CEO Mike Kendrick received an email communication from Libya requesting the company’s assistance to help clear landmines laid during the Libyan revolution. Mineseeker is to receive an invitation to visit to Libya in the coming weeks.

Mineseeker Operations Overseas Ltd (Mineseeker), founded by former Virgin Airship & Balloon company CEO Mike Kendrick, a long time friend and former business associate of Sir Richard Branson, confirmed that it is to offer its Multi Spectral Imaging Radar (MIR)™ technology, in a humanitarian capacity to assist the NTC in its landmine clearance program that will need to be undertaken as Libya moves towards a democracy as a post conflict Arab nation.

Dozens of civilians including women and children have been killed or injured in recent weeks during the Civil uprising in Libya leading to the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi. Troops loyal to Gaddafi had planted indiscriminate metal and plastic landmines in the strategic towns and cities of Zlitan, Ajdabiya, Bani Walid, Misrata and Tripoli as the former dictator struggled to hold onto power.

Mike Kendrick has previously visited Tripoli, accompanied, on one occasion by Sir Richard Branson for discussions with the Gaddafi led Libyan Government. The discussions outlined a landmine clearance program to survey areas of land in Libya where landmines and unexploded ordnance have been left over from World War 2 and which continue to prevent the exploration of oil and gas fields.

Now the British firm is to seeking to re-start talks with the newly appointed Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib and board members of the National Transitional Council of Libya to assist in providing a landmine clearance program using its landmine detection radar capability.  It is also seeking a meeting with Andrew Mitchell the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development, with a view to discussing how Mineseeker’s landmine detection technology can be deployed in other UK development aid projects.

Mike Kendrick said; “We look forward to and welcome early discussions with the National Transitional Council, the Prime Minister and its board members. We expect to visit Libya in the coming weeks to assess how Mineseeker can assist the NTC in their landmine clearance program. We have previously dealt with the Libyan Government under the Gaddafi regime, so we have an understanding of the scale and magnitude of the problem but this has been greatly impacted by the recent revolution. The immediate priority for the NTC will be to make safe the newly laid mines in the towns and cities and then to liberate the land in and around the oil exploration fields and key road infrastructures to restore the country’s economy and wealth generation. The NTC have a lot of issues to consider as they move towards a democracy in a post conflict state and we expect this process and discussions to take some time.”

Kendrick’s company, Mineseeker, an aerial survey and mapping company, has developed the unique landmine detection technology in conjunction with the British Ministry of Defence and American defence contractors for humanitarian aid. The groundbreaking technology has been extensively trialled in Kosovo, Croatia and the USA and was first deployed using airships. It has now been miniaturised and successfully trialled on helicopters, which can currently survey up to five square kilometres per day. It’s advancement in locating landmines has life changing ramifications.

Mineseeker’s CEO Mike Kendrick believes that the overthrow of Gaddafi and the Civil War has led to a new crisis in the country.  “Many innocent men, women and children have been killed or injured as a result of landmines, many cannot go about their normal daily lives  or return to their homes for fear of unexploded landmines and ordnance (UXO).  One of the greatest risks of death also comes from the danger of children playing with landmines left exposed in the ground which they mistake for toys or objects to play with.

He added; “The process of landmine clearance has also been hampered as many of their military personnel have a very limited knowledge and experience in the deadly task of landmine clearance, some are using primitive methods with little more than a metal garden rake to find landmines. The process of landmine detection is ever more complicated by the fact that there are also both metal and plastic landmines buried beneath the surface making their detection even more difficult.”

Mineseeker’s innovative and advanced lightweight technology uses ground penetrating synthetic aperture radar (GPSAR) and photo mosaic technology to produce a fusion of “Multi-Spectral and Imaging Radar” (MIR)™ of both surface and sub-surface targets, designed specifically to locate landmines and unexploded remnants of war.  The company has also developed other detection applications and will be looking to launch “Aquaseeker”, “Airseeker”, “Threatseeker” and “Landseeker” in due course. Mineseeker remains the only company to have demonstrated MIR™ technology in an operational environment to date.

Kendrick continued; “It is vital that the towns and cities of Libya are made safe and that a rapid landmine clearance program is undertaken. Men, women and children need to be able to go about their daily lives, return to their homes without fear of treading on or touching a landmine. There are also much wider ramifications in restoring Libya’s infrastructure its energy reserves, water supply and electricity. Many of the oil fields are now littered with landmines, these will need to be identified and cleared before the country can resume its production and supply of oil and in turn restore its economic wealth and prosperity.  Previous conflicts in that area has left landmines in the ground for the past 60 years, killing and injuring civilians on a daily basis and inhibiting growth and economic recovery particularly in the oil and gas fields of the eastern dessert. We must not let this happen again..”

It is estimated by the United Nations that there are more than 100 million landmines located in over 70 countries around the world which have maimed or killed more than 1 million people across the world to date. Every nineteen minutes someone is affected by a landmine. With current detection methods it will take, according to the UN, up to 600 years to rid the planet of landmines and cost in the region of $50 Billion. Utilising Mineseeker technology and mobilising a fleet of twenty-five aircraft the current estimated timeframe could be reduced to approximately 30 years and the cost reduced by a factor of ten. These figures do not take into account the many millions of landmines laid in recent areas of conflict including Iraq and Afghanistan.