Security officer killed in IMT students’ election
A security officer attached to the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Mr. Festus Eze, has died after being hit on the head during a student election of the Department of Science Laboratory...
View ArticleLASU killings: SUG makes case for arrested students
The Students’ Union Government of the Lagos State University on Wednesday urged the authorities of the school to make provisions for 34 students who missed some days of the ongoing examinations. In a...
View ArticleYour pet may send you to the hospital
These days, owning a pet for companionship or as status symbol is commonplace. Sometimes, too, in crime-infested neighbourhoods, people own pets for security. Indeed, people and animals have a long...
View ArticleThe doctrine of work-life balance
Medical science has celebrated feats in the last century by reducing the incidence of communicable diseases through attack on pathogenic organisms directly or annihilating the factors that breed them....
View ArticleSome bacteria may protect against disease
Half of the world’s human population is infected with the stomach bacteria called Helicobacter pylori, yet it causes disease in only about 10 percent of those infected. Other bacteria living in the...
View ArticleSingle concussion may cause lasting brain damage
A single concussion may cause lasting structural damage to the brain, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. “This is the first study that shows brain areas undergo...
View ArticleStrengthening your ‘swimmers’
Three key measures for sperm health are sperm count (quantity), sperm motility and sperm morphology. The correct medical name for low sperm count is oligospermia, and there are some key nutritional...
View ArticleFacebook ‘like’ could reveal your secret
Clicking those friendly blue “like” buttons strewn across the Web may be doing more than marking you as a fan of Coca-Cola or Lady Gaga. It could portray you as gay. It might reveal how you vote. It...
View ArticleAs cyber attackers hit Michelle Obama, Biden
When the Google mail accounts of some state officials of the United States were hacked sometimes in 2012, the Defence Department categorised any serious cyber attack, as an act of war. Inspite of this,...
View ArticleConverting online presence to profits
In my last article, I wrote on the importance of building a social capital. I said, “Social capital is the number of people that you have direct relationship and access with via any of the social media...
View ArticleSyria refugees in Greece lack ‘humanitarian’ help
Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International lashed out on Thursday at Greece’s treatment of Syrian refugees fleeing their war-ravaged homeland, with many locked up as illegal immigrants or...
View ArticleI’ Coast attack kills six
At least six people, including two soldiers, were killed when an armed gang attacked a village in strife-prone western Ivory Coast, an officer of the Republican Army (FRCI) said Thursday. “An attack...
View ArticleS’African policeman arrested in fresh dragging assault
A South African police sergeant was arrested for dragging a man by his neck from a vehicle just weeks after a similar assault, the force’s watchdog said Thursday. The latest victim, a court...
View ArticleJapan donates $2.8m to Nigeria for cold chain
The government of Japan on Thursday in Abuja donated $2.8m (about N443m) to the Federal Government for the prevention of infectious diseases and strengthening of routine immunisation including cold...
View ArticleAkpabio seeks economic integration among ECOWAS states
Governor Godswill Akpabio has emphasised the need for the participants of the seventh edition of Joint Retreat between Commission, ECOWAS institutions, permanent representatives and national units...
View ArticleHow pink is social media space?
On first impulse, one will easily relate the colour pink to women. The colour pink is derived from a blend of red and white. It represents compassion, unconditional love, understanding, the giving and...
View ArticleBuzz… social media diary
My oga at the top The clip of the interview that the Lagos State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Obafaiye Shem, granted Lagos based Channels Television, went trending...
View ArticleWhen your iPhone gets wet
Water is the enemy of any electronic device, and the iPhone is no different. If you accidentally drop your iPhone into a puddle, the toilet or a sink, or if you get it drenched in a rainstorm, you may...
View ArticleHave you considered taking an online degree?
Earning academic degrees online is one of the goodies that came with the invention of the Internet, Temitayo Famutimi writes With the improvements in technology and the increasing use of the Internet,...
View ArticleOwnership of oil blocks
If it’s true that 83 per cent of oil blocks are held by northerners as claimed by Senator Ita Enang, then how on earth do we expect that deliberation on PIB will ever scale through the National...
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