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Too much time sitting and watching TV is taking years off your life expectancy, a study says. Researchers arrived at the conclusion from the results of five studies that explored the effects on nearly 167,000 people of sitting and watching television.
Peter Katzmarzyk, the study’s lead author and a professor at the Pen... | http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/10/the-more-you-sit-the-shorter-your-life-span-study/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitterAbeg | 233 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999937 |
Ogbeosowe mass ground
By S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli
“I looked around and I saw machine guns all around us. Some of them were also carrying automatic rifles. One of them shouted an order, and they started shooting.”
With these chilling words, Ify Uraih describes how the massacre of hundreds of innocent ci... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/revisiting-1967-asaba-massacre/ | 2,492 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999975 |
By Mary Adeoye
Folu is one of the beneficiaries of our advocacy training. Her only sister, Pelu, died from an abortion in her final year in the university. She was a bright student, 95th percentile in her class, a student union executive but she lacked basic information about safe sex or contraceptives. Her sister’s st... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/olu-falae-borrowing-not-bad-but-what-for-from-who-on-what-terms/amp/@op | 1,626 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
6 Reasons Why Python Is Suddenly Super Popular
Python is a general-purpose language — sometimes referred to as utilitarian — which is designed to be simple to read and write. The point that it’s not a complex language is important.
You may or may not know, but the Python programming language is not young by any means. ... | http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/07/6-reasons-python-suddenly-super-popular.html | 1,496 | Programming | 2 | en | 0.999987 |
Wireless networking technology is the most innovative and in-demand form of networking and communications technology across places these days. Owing to the growing needs of the organizations adopting wireless infrastructures to accommodate mobility of their employees and customers, CCNA Wireless skills for networking p... | http://www.storeboard.com/blogs/education/ccna-wireless-training-courses-increase-your-employability-with-enhanced-wireless-skill-set/119682 | 618 | Education | 2 | en | 0.999973 |
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, at St Peter’s Square Rome, during their visit to Pope Francis at theVatican.
By Obi Nwakanma
Sam Omatseye’s piece in the Nation, “The Ghost of Biafra,” this past week adds to the growing discussion on the inevitable impact of the new secessionist movement in important w... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/biafrexit/ | 1,626 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999952 |
By Aare Afe Babalola SAN,
The origin of Nigeria’s external debt dates back to 1958 when a loan of US$28 million was obtained from the World Bank.
The fund, which was made available to the Nigerian Railway Corporation, was for a five-year tenor to improve Nigeria’s rail system and to build a new line into the North-east... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/nigerias-increasing-debt-worrisome-use-recovered-loot-as-alternative/ | 1,728 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999956 |
File: Malnurished children Photo used to illustrate the story
By Luminous Jannamike
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday said about 2.5 million children under the age of five in Nigeria are suffering severe acute malnutrition.
UNICEF’s nutrition specialist, Ms. Abigail Nyukuri, stated this at a two-day m... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/2-5m-children-in-nigeria-suffering-severe-acute-malnutrition-unicef/ | 674 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999939 |
Once, experts feared that young children exposed to more than one language would suffer “language confusion,” which might delay their speech development. Today, parents often are urged to capitalize on that early knack for acquiring language. Upscale schools market themselves with promises of deep immersion in Spanish ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/health/views/11klass.html?ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=print | 476 | Family | 4 | en | 0.999872 |
List of Africa’s highest minimum wages per month
Nigeria‘s minimum wage of N30,000 ($39.04) was approved in 2019 following the passage of the Minimum Wage Bill by the National Assembly.
President Tinubu during a meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), promised that the upward ... | https://thenationonlineng.net/list-of-africas-highest-minimum-wages-per-month/ | 1,022 | Career | 2 | en | 0.999954 |
Africans & Americans Are Not The Only Ones Stuck On Efficacy Of Chloroquine
Most high school science students are familiar with the functions of red and white blood cells. The white cells help fight off infections and other foreign invaders of our bodies. But sometimes, white cell cells overdo it, killing its own cells... | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/290678/africans-americans-are-not-the-only-ones-stuck-on-efficacy.html | 1,443 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999865 |
By Sola Ogundipe
RECENTLY, in effort to eliminate Ebola at the source, through use of innovative disinfection technology, two “germ-killing robots” were deployed from the US to the JFK Hospital and ELWA Hospital both in Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, both hotspots of the Ebola disease outbreak.
The robots, technically ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/scientist-invents-robot-kills-ebola-virus/#sthash.usJec00U.dpuf | 1,026 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999945 |
Jos – A medical expert, Dr Elizabeth Uzorji, has said that users of second hand clothes risk contracting candidiasis and hepatitis A, B and C.
Uzorji in Jos on Tuesday said that such diseases were air borne and could be contracted easily through the constant use of second hand clothes.
“Those that patronises second clo... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/second-hand-clothes-cause-candidiasis-hepatitis-expert/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter | 273 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
British experts, on Thursday in London, warned that the growing online craze of buying and drinking human breast milk, among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers, poses serious health implications. The human breast milk was being traded via websites in a lucrative market for adult buyers.
... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/human-breast-milk-on-sale-via-website-the-hazards-involved/#sthash.IOARKD1p.dpufA | 360 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999789 |
Imagine-A-Nation, Nigeria @ 64: Where Do We Go from Here?
As Nigeria celebrates its Independence Day after 64 years, it is time for us, as a people, to reflect on the journey ahead. Beyond the colourful parades and commemorative speeches, there is the need to imagine a nation we can all be proud of—a Nigeria shaped not... | https://thenationonlineng.net/fg-explains-new-conditions-for-passport-acquisition/Imagine | 2,263 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the developed world could learn lessons from the preventative measures taken by many African countries to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
“COVID-19 has made much slower progress (in Africa) than the predictions that were made at the beginning” of the crisis,... | https://www.channelstv.com/2020/05/20/un-chief-antonio-guterres-praises-africas-efforts-to-stem-covid-19/ | 345 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s northwest is growing, according to health officials, sounding the alarm weeks after the country officially declared an end to a separate Ebola epidemic which claimed over 2,000 lives.
There have been 54 confirmed cases since June 1 in Mbandaka, a transport hub in Equateur province, incl... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/ebola-cases-rise-in-new-dr-congo-outbreak/ | 849 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
Return To Our Character & Morality Or Perish For Money: Iwa Rere Lere
There Is no other way to put it, it all boils down to African values, integrity, discipline, order and standard without which, chaos reigns. We were reminded by a childhood friend of Tunde Nightingale's old song that: Iwa Rere Lere! No better time th... | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/311133/return-to-our-character-morality-or-perish-for-money-iwa.html | 1,256 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
MONROVIA (AFP) – Liberia is bracing for an upsurge in Ebola cases, following a grim World Health Organization assessment on Tuesday that the worst is yet to come in the fight against the killer virus.
While the WHO predicted an “exponential increase” in infections across West Africa, it warned that Liberia, which has r... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/liberia-braces-worst-ebola-death-toll-jumps/ | 936 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999952 |
A US man died of a rare African virus in New Jersey after returning from West Africa but the risk of contagion is very low, US health authorities said Tuesday.
The man died of Lassa fever, New Jersey health authorities and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
Although the virus triggers hemorrh... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/us-man-dies-from-lassa-fever/ | 409 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999985 |
By Eric Teniola
I HAVE just finished reading a book: What Britain Did To Nigeria by Max Siollun, who is an authority on issues that affect Nigeria. Mr Siollun has written several books on Nigeria, including Soldiers Of Fortune, Nigeria Politics from Buhari to Babangida and Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune-The Abacha and O... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/the-mistake-of-1914/ | 1,305 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99996 |
Steve Jobs: An ‘Unwanted’ Child
Adopted as an infant, he was grateful for the gift of life.
He died a devoted family man, with his wife and children at his bedside. But Steve Jobs didn’t come into the world as the object of his parents’ devotion. His birth was complicated and all too human in its details, and yet his s... | http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/steve-jobs-an-unwanted-child | 1,844 | Education | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
More than 97,000 children were reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) within two weeks in the United States (US).
This was contained in a joint report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
The report which summarized what was available on 30th Ju... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/97000-american-children-test-positive-for-covid-19-in-2-weeks/ | 670 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999943 |
File: In this image released by the US Navy, migrants are gathered on the deck of a Malta Armed Forced ship as they depart the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio on October 17, 2013. The San Antonio rescued 128 men adrift from an inflatable raft that was threatening to capsize in rough seas in the Mediterra... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/us-navy-rescues128-african-migrants-from-mali-nigeria-senegal-in-rough-seas/#sthash.2BNBKYTV.dpuf | 467 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99988 |
Birds of a feather don’t breed together
The fascinating phenomenon known as ‘ring species’ is sometimes quite incorrectly used to ‘prove’ evolution. The classic example is as follows.
In Britain, the herring gull is clearly a different species from the lesser black-backed gull. Not only can they be easily told apart, b... | https://creation.com/birds-of-a-feather-don-t-breed-together | 1,615 | Religion | 4 | en | 0.999989 |
By Femi Aribisala
While the world is rich in money, it is poor in mercy.
Jesus says to his disciples: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” (John 15:16).
For what cause... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/enugu-international-airport-reopens/amp/God | 1,566 | Travel | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
File: Palm oil
There has been notion among Nigerians that Malaysia came to Nigeria some years ago to get seedlings for oil palm which has placed the country as number one oil palm producing country while Nigeria lags behind in ranking.
But this assertion was debunked recently by crop scientists when some select journal... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/malaysia-never-took-oil-palm-seed-from-nigeria-dr-okwuagwu/ | 1,761 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999973 |
…Poor compliance, lack of funds limit progress
…48m still defecate in open spaces
By Chioma Obinna
Using the toilet and washing hands with soap has become a great experience for me. I grew up to see my family members defecate in the bush, but our fortunes turned around early this year when my father was able to constru... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/open-defecation-doubts-over-nigerias-attainment-of-2025-target-experts/amp/ | 1,952 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999515 |
RECENTLY, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’ Allah, called on the Federal Government to establish a mechanism for assessing Nigerian university professors to determine their contributions to the industry and national development.
Professor Na’Allah compared being a university professo... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/01/why-government-should-encourage-nigerian-inventors-2/ | 821 | Education | 2 | en | 0.9998 |
Abuja – Dr Kema Onu, a reproductive health expert, has warned that the practice of oral sex increases the risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
Onu, who is the Site Coordinator of Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an international NGO, gave the warning in an interview in Abuja on Friday.
According to him, ora... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/oral-sex-increases-risk-stis-expert-warns/ | 648 | Romance | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
GFP Hull Classifications:
GlobalFirepower.com (GFP) takes a rather conventional approach to hull classifications regarding per-country naval assets. Below are descriptions of each type considered:
These are either conventional- or nuclear-powered forms showcasing an expansive flight deck with hangar elevators for acces... | http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=nigeria | 652 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999977 |
World Water Day: Six side effects of not drinking enough water
Drinking water often helps to maintain a healthy balance. Mild dehydration can decrease one’s energy level and mental functioning and increase stress on the body while severe dehydration can have far more damaging effects.
To avoid dehydration drink at leas... | https://thenationonlineng.net/six-side-effects-of-not-drinking-enough-water/ | 375 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999968 |
Kingsley Oneyebuchie sits in a Nsukka hospital room on May 5, 2016, after surviving a Fulani herdsmen machete attack in Nsukka, southeast Nigeria. Over the past year Biafran independence protests have erupted across Nigeria’s south-east where many protesters where injured or killed during clashes with the Nigerian Poli... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/how-2/ | 1,204 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999971 |
A deserted road following the sit at home order in South East, Nigeria
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, sparking a brutal civil war.
In Onitsha, the economic hub of Anambra state on the banks of the River N... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/rigging-pdp-targeting-inec-security-officials-observers-for-inducement-says-apc/Shut | 607 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999931 |
By Chekwube Nzomiwu
THE United States of America often prides itself as the bastion of democracy in the world. A few days ago, President Joe Biden stressed the importance of the right to vote in his remarks at the 58th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama. In his words: “The right to vo... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/us-nigerias-faulty-election-and-africas-progress/ | 1,852 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999943 |
By Douglas Anele
To ensure continuous economic exploitation of the country,British colonial officials had always wanted the insular, undereducated and pliant Fulani to dominate post-independent Nigeria in line with Frantz Fanon’s perceptive observation that colonialists prefer as their successors stooges of the colonia... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/the-possible-impossibility-of-nigeria-4/ | 1,803 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the proportion of children under five years of age “chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV)” dropped to just under one per cent in 2019.
WHO in a statement on Monday, said this was down from around five per cent in the pre-vaccine era, between the 1980s and the early 2000s.
... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/faan-begins-palliative-repair-enugu-runway/Chronic | 513 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999907 |
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says more than 300,000 women die annually during pregnancy and childbirth.
Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director, disclosed this at the occasion of International Day of the Midwife, which honoured midwives as family ‘partners for life’.
He urged governments and ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/unfpa-says-300000-women-die-annually-pregnancy-childbirth/ | 540 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999987 |
Flood and mudslide bury over 300 in Sierra-Leone
The Federal Government has commenced the construction of dykes to protect the nation’s river bodies and minimise risks that could arise from flooding.
Dr Elijah Aderibigbe, Director, Irrigation and Drainage, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, made this known in an inte... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/fg-begins-construction-of-dykes-to-prevent-flooding-official/ | 550 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999987 |
BY OBICHERE IWUAGWU
From time immemorial, the worship at the shrine of Chileke Oriukwu has been the singular identity of the common ancestry of the teeming people of Ezinihitte Mbaise who originally camped and resided around Oriukwu. It was their belief that Orieukwu Oboama-na-Umunama was the seat of the creation of th... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/oji-ezinihitte-festival/ | 1,411 | Culture | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
File photo: Surgeons at work
By Sola Ogundipe
A lump on the testicleTesticular cancer is the most common cancer in men aged 20 to 35. Nearly 2,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer each year in the UK, and regular self-examination is recommended.
If you notice a lump or abnormality in your testicles, first thing... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/edo-confirms-eight-cases-of-monkeypox/Symptoms | 575 | Food | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
By Dada Olusegun
The Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most ambitious transport infrastructure project since independence. In terms of scope, distance covered, and connectivity, not even the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos, the 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha/Asaba, or the Abuja-Kano expressway comes... | https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/06/lagos-calabar-coastal-road-leave-the-talk-lets-face-the-business/ | 2,453 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999947 |
Public health officials for years have urged Americans to limit consumption of red meat and processed meats because of concerns that these foods are linked to heart disease, cancer and other ills.
But on Monday, in a remarkable turnabout, an international collaboration of researchers produced a series of analyses concl... | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/health/red-meat-heart-cancer.html#click=https:///G6WcAr8vzn | 284 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999987 |
NHS urges men to masturbate after study says it can help ward off cancer
The findings, published in the journal European Urology, were the result of researchers from Harvard and Boston medical schools and universities studying 31,925 healthy men, who completed a questionnaire about their ejaculation frequency back in 1... | https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/health/nhs-urges-men-to-masturbate-after-study-says-it-can-help-ward-off-cancer-845949 | 471 | Romance | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
June 12… Heroes, heroine of the people’s struggle
The ‘June 12’ battle was not for men of frail will. On the battle field were great fighters who dared the military. These democratic forces were scattered at home and abroad. Many lost their lives and property. When the fight became hotter, some developed cold feet, bet... | http://thenationonlineng.net/june-12-heroes-heroine-of-the-peoples-struggle/ | 4,187 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999553 |
The human body—God’s masterpiece
The human brain is ‘ … the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe’. Isaac Asimov
‘I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well’ (Psalm 139:14).
A new twist on blood vessels
Blood vessel... | https://creation.com/the-human-body-gods-masterpiece | 1,454 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999981 |
Collateral Victims Of Diseases & Economic Hardships Are Black & Poor
Sometimes most people of Goodwill, regardless of color, wonder how rugged and durable Africans survived all the impediments and odds they face daily. Even in their own Continent, not to talk about Diaspora. Yet, Africans disrespect one another more th... | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/287589/collateral-victims-of-diseases-economic-hardships-are-blac.html | 1,101 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
When we hear the statement “Things fall apart”, what comes to mind? Right! we all know it’s Chinua Achebe’s book.
The book “Things fall apart”, is one of the first recognised novel, which was written by an African writer. Achebe wrote the book from an absolute African perspective, though there are elements of British c... | https://olatorera.com/chinua-achebes-greatest-book-of-all-time/ | 372 | Literature | 3 | en | 0.999989 |
SCIENTISTS say they have found how the lethal Ebola virus blocks and disables the body’s ability to battle infections in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines.
A group of scientists in the United States found that Ebola carries a protein called VP24 that interferes with a molecule cal... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/scientists-discover-ebola-virus-disables-immune-response/#sthash.ru5HhPBG.dpuf | 423 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999983 |
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotions are present in everything you think, do, and say each day on the job, in your career, and throughout your life. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is how you handle yourself and others. Your EQ taps into a fundamental element of human behavior that is distinct from your intellect and p... | http://www.talentsmart.com/about/emotional-intelligence.php | 634 | Education | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
Towards a functional education curriculum
Education is crucial in any society for the preservation of lives of its members and the maintenance of social structure. In the history of our pre-colonial existence, we are told from folk tales that our ancient people had unique ways of documenting events, such that they coul... | http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/166882/1/towards-a-functional-education-curriculum.html | 2,905 | Education | 3 | en | 0.999973 |
Greetings, fellow manipulators and deceivers, and welcome to our course on how to create a fake pandemic! As you know from our previous courses, the first thing you need for an undertaking of this kind is to own some mainstream media. As experienced mass manipulators, we're sure you own a medium outlet or two, so let's... | https://www.sott.net/article/431860-How-to-Create-a-Fake-Pandemic | 10,652 | Health | 2 | en | 1 |
By Francis Ewherido
I am not sure which word I became conscious of first, but I suspect “Afghanistan” as a country. In my secondary school days, I studied geography at a point and also followed international affairs. I probably became conscious of “Afghanistanism” (“the practice, as by a journalist, of concentrating on... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/fg-inaugurates-91-housing-units-enugu/amp/Keeping | 1,454 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
UnHeard: Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the worldâs most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the W... | https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/18/swedish_epidemiologist_johan_giesecke_why_lockdowns_are_the_wrong_policy.html | 312 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999964 |
Failed state†is a term popularised by Bill Clinton following the coinage in 1993 in an essay in Foreign Policy by two American political scientists to describe countries whose governments do not enjoy legitimacy or control over all their territories, and do not provide the people with security, and do not fulfil prim... | https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/08/24/how-peter-obi-rules-anambra-state-%E2%80%94don-adinuba/ | 1,705 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999765 |
After 22 years as a dictator, Yahya Jammeh was ready to relinquish power but not without a deal to protect him and his political allies from political harassment by the incoming administration.
Immediately, it was announced that he had lost elections to the opposition candidate, Adama Barrow, Jammeh called Barrow in a ... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/kogi-govt-debunks-allegations-of-diverting-n20bn-bailout-funds/amp/Yahya | 805 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
Africans lost their wealth while pursuing riches. You can be wealthy without necessarily being rich as long as you have enough to feed your family or country without handouts and outside income to survive. Riches means more income above and beyond necessities. You can still be wealthy beyond basic need for food, shelte... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/914599/economic-environmental-justice-for-africa.html#Another | 1,385 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
IT is leadership that defines a nation. Essentially, it builds or destroys a nation. General Charles de Gaulle relevantly stated that “nothing great can be done without great (leaders)”.
In other words, national greatness can only result from great leadership, and corollary, national decline is an inescapable consequen... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/new-standards-for-igbo-leaders/ | 1,148 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
By Prince Okafor
A medical expert has linked frequent use of tissue paper popularly known as toilet roll to one of the root cause of cervical cancer in women.
Disclosing this during the 2019 Beauty West Africa Exhibition in Lagos, an Indonesian traditional health specialist, at Tirta Ayu Spa, recalled that toilet tissu... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/12/why-nigerians-should-avoid-use-of-tissue/ | 481 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999981 |
For a little more than four years, Nigeria was the great African exception: it was democratic and had money.
After years of military rule, Nigeria adopted a constitution in 1978 and held federal, state and presidential elections in 1979. And as the price of oil skyrocketed, the country began to enjoy economic prosperit... | https://mobile.nytimes.com/1984/01/30/business/nigeria-s-search-for-recovery.html | 297 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999977 |
ISTANBUL — Billions of Christians around the world are excited to celebrate Christmas this weekend. Those in the world’s second-largest religious community, Muslims, don’t share quite the same excitement. In a few Muslim-majority countries, like Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Somalia, Christmas celebrations are banned. In Tu... | http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/opinion/why-its-not-wrong-to-wish-muslims-merry-christmas.html?ref=todayspaper&referer= | 387 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999914 |
By Clifford Ndujihe
Section 69 of the 1999 Constitution provides 10 clear but tortuous steps on how a senator can be recalled from the Senate.
The steps are:
More than half of the registered voters in the Senator’s senatorial district write, sign and send a petition to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/10-steps-recall-senator-nigeria | 388 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999977 |
Love gone broken
Men with numerous lovers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer-because they have more sex, scientists say.
Lotharios who have had more than 20 partners have a 28 per cent reduced risk compared with men who have had only one sexual partner in their lifetime, they claim.
But it is the amount of... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/having-more-than-20-partners-reduces-prostate-cancer-risk/ | 330 | Romance | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
William Shakespeare said, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Had Shakespeare encountered your political godfather, he might have advised you not to take a crown from him. Not because your head is too small for the crown but Shakespeare had warned in The Tempest, “What is past is prologue.” In other words, his... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/a-letter-to-gov-sim-fubara-by-ugoji-egbujo/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0t9JETjT6WNhdtUGBqoHFU5MAdeTDQita-rANfchTKgkkCbBZQzTrV2D4 | 1,719 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999922 |
Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer. Eight of the victims died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made.
The cause of the outbreak is unknown, and there is as yet no evidence of contagion. But the doctors who have made ... | https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in-41-homosexuals.html | 350 | Romance | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
What London School Of Economics Did Not Teach Africans
Why African goldcannot back African currencies? What African scholars did not learn in London School of Economics, Wharton School and others is that politics of western privileges comes before economics or Gold Standard. Politics dictates which economic theories th... | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/265353/what-london-school-of-economics-did-not-teach-africans.html# | 1,314 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999926 |
Toothpick is one of the effected items.
Ilorin – Dr Alatishe Muhammad, an expert in Dentistry in Ilorin, has warned that using toothpick to remove food remnant from teeth could harm the teeth and gums.
Muhammad said on Thursday in Ilorin that what was medically recommended was cleaning between the teeth at least once a... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/use-toothpick-causes-harm-teeth-gums-dentist-warns/ | 426 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999924 |
The myth of altruism and generosity surrounding Mother Teresa is dispelled in a paper by Serge Larivée and Genevieve Chenard of University of Montreal’s Department of Psychoeducation and Carole Sénéchal of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education.
The paper will be published in the March issue of the journal Stu... | http://scienceblog.com/60730/mother-teresa-anything-but-a-saint/#GJctCAUj7u0Ms4xW.99 | 2,902 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999962 |
By Arogbonlo Israel
Democracy Day in Nigeria is being celebrated on the 12th of June of every year. All thanks to President Muhammadu Buhari who, in his solidarity with the late Moshood Abiola popularly called MKO, changed the date from May 29 to June 12.
This day marks the transition of power from the military to a de... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/june-12-democracy-in-undemocratic-regime-what-next/ | 762 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
Iran is one of the leading executioners of juvenile offenders, despite its improved legal protections for children and a pledge more than two decades ago to end the death penalty for convicts younger than 18, Amnesty International said Monday.
In a new report, Amnesty International said that it had documented the execu... | http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/world/middleeast/iran-still-a-leading-executioner-of-minors-report-says.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/m?q=Iran+executes+minors | 301 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999971 |
By Sola Ogundipe with Agency Reports
Nigerian-born Dr. Bennet Omalu, currently the Chief Medical Examiner, San Joaquin County, California, and President/Medical Director of Bennet Omalu Pathology, was the first to identify, describe and name a new disorder known as, as a disease entity in American football players and ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/how-nigerian-doctor-bennet-omalu-changed-american-football/#sthash.OXx2uuyW.dpuf | 1,053 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
In recent weeks, one of the hottest questions about the coronavirus has been focused around, quite literally, temperature.
President Trump has suggested that the coronavirus outbreak will be gone by April because “the heat generally speaking kills this kind of virus,” as reported by USA Today. He has appointed Vice Pre... | https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/485052-trump-says-coronavirus-will-die-off-in-warmer | 353 | Health | 4 | en | 0.999962 |
The Federal Government of Nigeria has is planning to establish the National Council on Power to achieve the goal of providing sustainable power supply.
When established, the National Council on Power would assist in formulating useful policies and providing the much needed manpower in the power sector.
Speaking at a me... | http://www.channelstv.com/2014/08/12/fg-set-national-council-power/ | 177 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999975 |
A theme is a collection of files that define the presentation layer. You can also create one or more "sub-themes" or variations on a theme.
The .info file is a static text file for defining and configuring a theme. Each line in the .info file is a key-value pair with the key on
The following are the assumed defaults. W... | http://www.drupal.org/documentation/theme | 1,177 | Programming | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
The Jehovah’s Witnesses were begun by Charles Taze Russell in 1872. He was born on February 16, 1852, the son of Joseph L. and Anna Eliza Russell. He had great difficulty in dealing with the doctrine of eternal hellfire, and in his studies came to deny not only eternal punishment but also the Trinity, the deity of Chri... | https://carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses-beliefs | 571 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
Do you know that the role of Nigeria’s national electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), goes beyond just organizing elections into various political offices in the country?
INEC summarizes its mission this way: “to serve as an independent and effective Electoral Management Body (EMB) com... | https://www.channelstv.com/2019/02/07/eight-functions-of-inec-every-nigerian-should-know/?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=ChannelsTV-+AutoPoster&utm_campaign=SNAP%2Bfrom%2BChannels+TelevisionCc | 501 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
By Sola Ogundipe
Lassa virus is a member of the arenavirus family. The disease was first described in the 1950s, and the virus was identified in 1969, when two missionary nurses died from it in the town of Lassa in Nigeria.
During 2012 and 2013, more than 2900 cases were reported in widespread outbreaks that occurred a... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/what-you-should-know-about-lassa-fever/ | 723 | Health | 4 | en | 0.999992 |
I recently received an infographic entitled "10 Common Jobs Which Won't Exist in 20 Years Time." I've reproduced the infographic, which was originally posted on LottoLand, a U.K.-based company that has something to do with gambling, at the end of this post.
The conventional wisdom about jobs that are becoming obsolete.... | https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/10-jobs-that-maybe-wont-exist-in-20-years.html?cid=sf01001&sr_share=twitterLottola | 1,444 | Career | 2 | en | 0.999998 |
Archaeologists find gates of Hell
When researchers are searching for remnants of structures and settlements constructed by ancient peoples they typically focus on areas that are hospitable to human life.
This discovery in Saudi Arabia, according to BGR.com, goes firmly against that notion, with archaeologists revealing... | http://thenationonlineng.net/archaeologists-find-gates-hell/ | 431 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
The blue light from digital devices like smartphones could accelerate blindness, researchers found.
According to a research by the University of Toledo in the U.S., exposure to blue light continuously might cause poisonous molecules to be generated in the eye’s light-sensitive cells and lead to macular degeneration.
Re... | https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2018/08/13/blue-light-from-smartphones-could-accelerate-blindness-study/ | 352 | Phones | 4 | en | 0.999834 |
Prof. Ben Nwabueze
By Professor Ben Nwabueze
To us here in Nigeria, a colony is nothing new. The colony of Lagos established by the British in 1861 has familiarised us to it. But our acquaintance with it goes much further back to the ancient colonies established in 7th century B. C by the Greeks on the Mediterranean co... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/cattle-colony-buhari-lures-us-deadly-trap/ | 3,600 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
Rwanda is being offered a sweet deal that is supposed to end up in a win-win deal for the United Kingdom and Rwanda. If you believe it, we have a beautiful Trojan Horse to sell you. Africans are weary of superpowers' sweet promises of subsidy or aid to the developing countries. When you negotiate in an adverse disadvan... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1311959/rwanda-uk-refugees-will-take-over-your-land-with.html | 1,235 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
More than one and a half centuries after the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, a new study shows how the brutal treatment of enslaved people has shaped the DNA of their descendants.
The report, which included more than 50,000 people, 30,000 of them with African ancestry, agrees with the historical record about where pe... | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/science/23andme-african-ancestry.html | 279 | Culture | 4 | en | 0.999985 |
Accra – Ghana’s first satellite, dubbed Ghansat-1, was released and deployed into orbit at an altitude of 420 km, local media reported on Friday.
“This followed the successful launch on June 10 into the International Space Station (ISS) by SpaceX, Flight 11 from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, the United States,’’ loc... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/ghana-launches-first-satellite-60-years-independence/ | 244 | Education | 3 | en | 0.99987 |
Professor Chidi Odinkalu
“The judiciary has immense power. In the nature of things, judges cannot be democratically accountable for their decisions. It therefore matters very much that their role should be regarded as legitimate by the public at large.”— Jonathan Sumption, Law in a Time of Crisis, 121 (2021)
FOR a cumu... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/un-working-group-tells-nigeria-to-unconditionally-release-compensate-nnamdi-kanu/Rule | 1,441 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
Coronavirus vaccine may be ready by September, says Oxford scientist
A vaccine against the novel coronavirus may be ready as soon as September, according to a British vaccinologist from Oxford University who is leading one of the most advanced efforts for immunization.
Dr. Sarah Gilbert, a professor of vaccinology at O... | https://thenationonlineng.net/coronavirus-vaccine-may-be-ready-by-september-says-oxford-scientist/amp/ | 1,190 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999987 |
One of the consequences of the global pandemic that arrived in the United States last March is that vehicular traffic declined sharply for several months. People either thought twice about traveling or began to work from home as their employers locked the doors to their existing brick-and-mortar locations.
While a vehi... | http://www.underhoodservice.com/video-fuel-pump-filters-current/In | 971 | Car Talk | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti- The 156 years old Riemann Hypothesis, the most important problem in Mathematics has been successfully solved by Nigeria Scholar, Dr Opeyemi Enoch.
With this breakthrough, Dr Enoch, who teaches at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), has become the fourth egghead to resolve one of th... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/nigerian-scholar-solves-156-year-old-problem-in-maths-gets-one-million-dollars-reward/ | 444 | Education | 3 | en | 0.999937 |
Importance of Making the Right Choice
Just like coding is important in the mobile app development process so is the choice to be made about which platform is to be used. Due to the growth in the mobile market today there are numerous platforms available thus making the decision making process longer and difficult. Espe... | http://www.sooperarticles.com/communications-articles/mobile-applications-articles/choosing-os-your-mobile-app-development-1479444.html | 500 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
,The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are now 600 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa in 34 countries.
The UN health agency disclosed this in its regional official twitter account @WHOAFRO.
According to WHO, there has been 17 COVID-19-related d... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/34-countries-in-africa-report-covid-19-cases-who/ | 240 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
People who are the happiest don’t have the most money or aren’t the most attractive, but they all share one thing in common:
Happy people practice gratitude every day.
While this may seem simple enough, our minds tend to focus on what we’re missing out on instead of being grateful for everything we already have. Our ge... | http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/08/01/icpc-docks-alleged-operator-of-fake-university/http://greenbiro.com/icpc-arraigns-operator-of-illegal-university-commonwealth-university-belize-in-abuja/The | 882 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999998 |
United Nations – Africa’s population is expected to rise from the current 1 billion people to 3.6 billion by 2100, a report released on Wednesday by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) says.
The report, which relied on recent estimates by UN Population Division, states that Nigeria’s population will increase from 390 millio... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/nigerias-population-moves-to-390m-in-2050-as-africa-population-gets-to-3-6-bn/ | 617 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
Obiano acknowledging cheers from his supporters at a recent function in the state
By Clifford Ndujihe
ALTHOUGH old Anambra, as a state, was created in 1976 from the then East Central State by General Murtala Mohammed, the current geographical area known as Anambra State was created on August 27, 1991 by the General Ibr... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/anambra-25-challenges-gains-tasks-anambra-people/ | 1,873 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99962 |
A VIN decoder service provides detailed information about a vehicle's history, specifications, and ownership based on its unique 17-character identifier. This service is often utilized by individuals looking to purchase a used car, as it can offer insights into potential issues such as previous accidents, odometer roll... | https://www.vindecoderz.com/ | 825 | Car Talk | 2 | en | 0.999912 |
By Naomi Uzor
Vice Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Prof. Ibrahim Garba, has said that there are about 40 different kinds of solid minerals and precious metals buried in Nigerian soil waiting to be exploited. The commercial value of Nigeria’s solid minerals has been estimated to run into hundreds of trillions of do... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/40-solid-minerals-awaiting-development-says-abu-v-c/ | 557 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
Nobody provided enabling an environment for African billionaires when they establish schools, factories or manufacturing plants in the middle of nowhere and in the face of discrimination against all odds outside Africa. More Africans could have made it at home but for greed, self-hatred, pulling down one another and di... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/945919/go-back-to-fix-your-wretched-communities-if-so-smart-and-ri.html | 1,666 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
Image credit: New York Times
As Christianity continues to be one of the world’s most practiced religions, certain countries stand out for their sheer number of churches
When it comes to the expression of faith and spirituality, few things are as significant as places of worship. Churches, in particular, have played a c... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/09/top-10-countries-with-highest-number-of-churches-2024/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFBbrxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTDDTuF6BWle2lCaywG1NQi6jx8FJl_iBpu1atcOHYYr_xcc5AqQcHZghw_aem_XPX8X7O6eZBDkQvByBzuHQwhat | 1,037 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999969 |
Coronavirus patients in South Korea are now testing positive for the virus a second time, health officials are warning, following similar reports in other countries.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement announcing a formal investigation that do... | https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/491950-Coronavirus-patients-testing-positive-again-after-recovery-report?amp&__twitter_impression=true | 427 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999945 |
EVERY so often someone asks me: “What’s your favorite country, other than your own?”
I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people ask.
Very simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live off of — it even has to import sand and gravel from China ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html?_r=0onatisi:The | 817 | Travel | 2 | en | 0.999954 |
Drought, Locusts, Plagues and the Always-Relevant Bible
How often have you heard the Bible mocked as antiquated and irrelevant? “It’s a bronze age book about a tribal deity,” the critics tell us. “It has nothing to say to us today.” The reality is that the Bible, which is God’s Word, is always relevant and timely. That... | https://stream.org/drought-locusts-plagues-and-the-always-relevant-bible/ | 1,383 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999977 |
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