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Scientists in California yesterday reported a major discovery that supports the emerging theory that life on earth began in clay rather than the sea.
The discovery, announced at a symposium, showed that ordinary clay contains two basic properties essential to life: the capacities to store and transfer energy. With such... | https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/03/us/new-finding-backs-idea-that-life-started-in-clay-rather-than-sea.html | 403 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999985 |
London – The WHO says one in 10 drugs sold in developing countries is fake or substandard, leading to tens of thousands of deaths, many of them of African children given ineffective treatments for pneumonia and malaria.
In a major review of the problem, the WHO said that bogus drugs are a growing threat as increased ph... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/01/corrupt-governance-responsible-for-insecurity-banditry-in-north-shettima/amp/Says | 511 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999933 |
The Federal Government in a bid to curtail the epileptic power situation in the country has spent about N5 trillion ($31.45 billion) from 1999 till date. But it has only been able to increase the country’s electricity generating capacity by about 2,500 mega watts over the last 14 years.
This is a far cry compared to it... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/fg-invests-n5trn-in-2500mw-power/ | 2,184 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
In recent years, the fashion industry has faced increasing scrutiny due to its negative environmental and social impacts. However, a new movement has emerged, championing eco-friendly and ethical fashion practices. Sustainable fashion aims to create clothing and accessories that have a reduced carbon footprint, are mad... | https://vocal.media/styled/sustainable-fashion-exploring-the-rise-of-eco-friendly-and-ethical-fashion-practices | 1,007 | Fashion | 4 | en | 0.999929 |
By Sola Ogundipe
Who is stronger, a man or a woman? If you say a man is stronger you are correct. If you say a woman is stronger, you are also correct. Both answers are right, depending, of course on the perspective of your reasoning. Being a man symbolises authority, firmness and toughness. The presence of a man evoke... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/im-stronger-man/ | 2,589 | Romance | 3 | en | 0.999933 |
U.S. health officials issued a travel warning Thursday for three West African nations as the death toll soared from an Ebola outbreak, while Obama administration officials downplayed the possibility that travelers could bring the virus to a U.S.-Africa summit President Obama will attend in Washington next week.
The Cen... | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/31/african-leader-cancels-trip-us-over-ebola-outbreak/ | 935 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999908 |
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook have been taking steps to curb the number of false news articles propagated across their sites. On Wednesday, the Silicon Valley companies showed that they were still in the early stages of their battle to limit misinformation online.
In a blog post, Google said it had permanently ba... | https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/technology/google-facebook-fake-news.html?_r=0&referer= | 373 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999952 |
Pandora Papers only confirmed what Africans knew all along. Political leaders, Pastors, Business cronies have always hidden under their believers to steal and launder money outside. While most of us at home demand accountability, those infuriated abroad have taken the law into their hands by assaulting looters. There w... | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/302874/failed-leaders-wrapped-in-past-glories-shamed-abroad.html | 1,039 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
How do humans explain in this century, that we still elect and rally round leaders with a killer instinct sending our Youths to wars over crude suzerainty to fight those that want to decide their own political economic survival? The worst friends we have are those enemies that claim they love us by force, Africans call... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1158369/brutality-suzerainty-wars-signs-of-killer-insti.html | 1,270 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99996 |
Hoping against Hopelessness
Party Regeneration in Tropical Africa
Nothing lasts in the tropics. It is the iron law of nature. In the sweltering and sultry heat, things grow fast and die fast. Living organisms procreate and proliferate quickly rising to their greatest potential before noon only to perish with the same s... | https://thenationonlineng.net/were-committed-to-one-united-nigeria-s-east-governors/Hoping | 2,413 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999949 |
Full text of Tinubu’s Independence speech
Today, we mark our independence as a nation. On this day 62 years ago, we set forth to determine our own way, to shape our own destiny.
The path we walk has not always been an easy or smooth one, but we walk it nonetheless because it is the road hewn by our own hands, ingenuity... | https://thenationonlineng.net/full-text-of-tinubus-independence-speech/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1664605613 | 794 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
RIVERS State has the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS with a total of 145,236 adults and 15,000 children affected.
Priscillia Shu, Co-ordinator, Rhema Care Integrated Development Centre stated this when the HIV/AIDS awareness center facilitated a sensitisation programme among staff of the Rivers State Mini... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/rivers-has-highest-hivaids-cases/ | 248 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999809 |
Most families always want a son. Women have been encouraged to continue to have babies until the first son is born. You can tell from the face of the father after each birth by his wife if it is another girl or finally a boy. The celebration after the birth of that son is grander. But different from the Indian culture ... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1053800/women-love-their-son-than-daughter-until-he-become.html | 1,417 | Family | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
BY EMEKA AGINAM
To achieve the expected results in the fight against Ebola Virus Disease , (EVD) spreading like wild fire globally, the Africa Emergency Technology Response Forum (AETRF), called for more concerted efforts to bring robust technological responses to the crisis.
AETRF is an informal network of African tec... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/lasuth-has-measures-to-stem-recurrence-of-ebola-virus-outbreak/EVD | 550 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999886 |
The Federal Government has announced plans to accelerate contraceptive prevalence rate in Nigeria to 36 per cent by 2018.
This according to the Minister Of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, will help control the imminent population explosion and also improve the quality of life for women and children.
Prof Adewole, who was s... | http://www.channelstv.com/2016/08/11/fg-announces-plans-accelerate-contraceptive-prevalence-36-per-cent/ | 218 | Romance | 2 | en | 0.999901 |
The New World Translation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses frequently inserts the name Jehovah into the New Testament. They justify this by claiming that the original New Testament contained that name. They insist that all of our manuscripts, translations, and quotations of the New Testament through all of Church history goi... | http://ow.ly/qf9W50MjFM4 | 1,684 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
Of Nigeria’s 180 million people, the number of illiterate Nigerians is estimated at 54 million, revealed the Federal Government yesterday.
The Acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Hindatu Abdullahi, presented the figures at the flag-off of the 2015 International Literacy Day celebration, and calle... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/54-million-nigerians-are-illiterates/ | 431 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999857 |
Ghana learnt it lesson during the 1980s and 1970s when its citizens were a disgrace all over west Africa and it economy was a basket case and it had many numerious military coup and military Government that wiped out its leadership and almost half of Ghana left for other countries like Nigeria, Ivory coast, Togo etc.
G... | http://www.modernghana.com/news/325853/1/ghana-best-in-the-region-but-ghana-too-poor-and-no.html | 874 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999964 |
NATAL, Brazil — From her crumbling house with the leaky roof, across a new highway from a new World Cup stadium, Maria Ivanilde Oliveira heard everything.
Notes of the national anthems floated through the humid air into her living room, where her black vinyl couch was losing its stuffing and a metal bookshelf was secur... | http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/sports/worldcup/world-cup-2014-residents-wonder-how-new-stadiums-will-benefit-region-after-cup.html?rref=sports/worldcup&_r=0 | 310 | Sports | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
As two Titans of the Yoruba nation celebrate epochal natal days
In the latest of his series of very seminal lectures, (The 1886 Peace Treaty and Imperative Lessons of the Unity of Yoruba Nation),the Yoruba Leader, Professor (Senator) Banji Akintoye, recently said as follows: ”As we gather here to celebrate, my humble t... | https://thenationonlineng.net/as-two-titans-of-the-yoruba-nation-celebrate-epochal-natal-days/ | 2,354 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
JOHANNESBURG — As Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Eswatini chooses his country’s prime minister and cabinet, and possesses the power to dissolve Parliament. His grip on the nation’s limited economic resources has underwritten a lavish lifestyle of luxury cars and palaces, and his children flaunt thei... | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/us/africa-monarchy-eswatini-protests-swaziland.html#click=https:///1ki64F93bB | 315 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999943 |
Angels were created by God. Therefore, they had a beginning. They are not eternal in the past tense. However, they will exist forever after their creation (Luke 20:36). There are no such things as eternal angels who have always existed (not from the biblical perspective). The only being who is eternal is God himself. H... | http://ow.ly/v7vR50MCLZZ | 686 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999998 |
Disclaimer: How biblical chronology relates to archaeological periods in the ancient Near East (e.g., Paleolithic, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, Iron Age, etc.) is a complex subject. For many years, Creation Ministries International (CMI) has published a range of views by various authors in its publications (CREATION... | http://creation.mobi/egyptian-history-and-the-biblical-record-a-perfect-match | 5,907 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999979 |
The food we eat is at the heart of many cancers. In fact, up to 70% of cancers are thought to be preventable through diet. The other 30% has to do with genetics and environmental factors that you can’t control.
Here is a list of foods you must avoid to steer clear of cancer as shared by www.nutritionexp.com
Canned food... | https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/10/15/awo-the-best-president-nigeria-never-had-ojukwu/http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/OjukwuConfirmed.htmlhttp://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/anambra-2017-ojukwu-left-biafra-apga-ndigbo/Read | 1,385 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
Social media rules the world. It is the new tech addiction that many young people cannot do without as they spend hours viewing, reading and posting content via the internet. This underscores the importance of social media in today’s world.
As the use of social media rises, there are others out there who are using it t... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/ohanezes-endorsement-of-atiku-anti-igbo-says-apc-2/amp/h | 451 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
A cesspool of fraud and lies in the banking industry has come to light since the financial crisis of 2008, raising questions about how such rogue behaviour could have happened.
What caused traders, asset managers and others in the money business to behave dishonestly?
And how can dodgy behaviour be curbed?
Scientists a... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/banking-culture-creates-crooks-study/#sthash.sY6btlKT.dpuf | 838 | Business | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
President Trump unleashed a tirade against the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing it of acting too slowly to sound the alarm about the coronavirus. It was not the first time in this pandemic that the global health body has faced such criticism.
Government officials, health experts and analysts have in recen... | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/asia/trump-who-coronavirus-china.html | 335 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
African countries are certainly doing more than preventive medicine to ward off the predicted numbers of death from the devastating effects of Covid-19. It is not a fluke, luck, or by accident but by herbal and proactive Primary Care.
While it is true that Covid-19 could have produced more deaths in Africa than anywher... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1028572/africa-leads-in-low-covid-19-cases-by-early-treatm.html | 1,828 | Health | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
Off the main road in this unassuming town, a footpath that snakes through the thick bush and trees of the Nigerian rain forest leads to the remains of what is certainly one of the largest monuments in sub-Saharan Africa: a 100-mile-long wall and moat whose construction began a millennium ago.
The monument, called Sungb... | http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/20/world/eredo-journal-a-wall-a-moat-behold-a-lost-yoruba-kingdom.html | 323 | Culture | 3 | en | 0.999966 |
For most people, witnessing a highway crash means stopping what they're doing and assisting however way they can, whether that means calling authorities, helping to push disabled vehicles off the road, warning and diverting oncoming traffic, or providing lifesaving measures.
The rewards for those helping distressed and... | http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/01/car-crash-witness/ | 982 | Car Talk | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
STUDIES confirm Nigeria as one of the world’s poorest countries. Nigeria has one-fifth of Africa’s population, more than 80 million Nigerians live on less than $1 per day, the standard international bar for poverty.
The intensity of poverty in Nigeria was reported in a 2005 study, which states, “80 to 90 million Nigeri... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/wanted-a-president-for-nigerias-poor/ | 655 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999971 |
Of 33% out-of-school children, 60% lack teachers
One out of every three school-age Nigerian children being out of school (OOS) and six out of 10 schools which the ‘lucky’ ones attend do not have enough qualified teachers.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated these and more of the persisting ills of Nigeri... | https://thenationonlineng.net/buhari-killed-plot-extend-oyeguns-tenure/Of | 1,361 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99996 |
When I say that suffering entered into the world when Adam and Eve acted like atheists, I’m saying that they acted in a manner that is independent of God, not that they denied God’s existence. Atheists, of course, operate in their world without considering God as either existing or as an explanation for knowledge, rati... | https://carm.org/suffering-entered-the-world-when-adam-and-eve-acted-like-atheists?fbclid=IwAR143tFLab2dlVVahA4ZiojwtwdEzFu8t_f5wt7BmF5vkd0W98JnpgRpkic | 908 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999987 |
Yams were first domesticated by African farmers 7,000 years ago. Today, 48.1 million tons of yams are produced annually across 4.4 million hectares of land in West Africa’s “Yam Belt”—which extends from Cote D’Ivoire to Nigeria, representing over 90 percent of the global production.
Yam provides the most important sour... | https://www.channelstv.com/2020/05/04/covid-19-mysterious-deaths-rock-jigawa-local-council/Things | 132 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999983 |
What is the difference between African and African American women in Diaspora? After a while, not much. If the same proportion of white women call police on their husbands and accuse their men of sexual harassment, there would be shallow depth of powerful or rich white men as there are of black men now. African men in ... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/916498/payback-time-to-prominent-black-men-some-black-ladies-lost.html# | 1,617 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999973 |
While European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough refugees, Saudi Arabia – which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents that can house over 3 million people sitting empty.
The sprawling network of high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, sprea... | http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-arabia-100000-empty-tents-ac-3-million-people-refugees/ | 507 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
The Jehovah’s Witnesses frequently insert the name “Jehovah” into the New Testament in places that the Greek manuscripts contain the word “kurios” (which actually means “master” or “Lord”). They justify this practice by claiming that the original New Testament contained the Hebrew name YHWH (which they translate as Jeh... | http://ow.ly/HRlG50MjEU2 | 1,367 | Religion | 3 | en | 1 |
By Uche Onyebadi
SAME-SEX marriages in the US are not a novelty. What is new is that last week, the U.S. Supreme Court affixed a stamp of legitimacy on such marriages anywhere in the country. Now, Mary can marry Maria, from New York to California, and from Arizona to Montana. In the same vein, James can take his lovely... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/now-mary-can-marry-maria-anywhere-in-us/ | 1,412 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
Either for hobby or as a real opportunity to find a job, with countless resources on the internet (most of them free), learning a new programming language has never been as easy as it is today. But even with the overwhelming information that’s out there, choosing a programming language to learn can be a daunting task. ... | http://www.slant.co/topics/25/~what-is-the-best-programming-language-to-learn-first | 186 | Programming | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
Life expectancy in South Africa dropped by 4.3 years between 1990 and 2013, according to a research coordinated by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of University of Washington.
The report states: “The average life expectancy for women was 63 years in 2013, with men living 57.7 years.” It goes furth... | http://www.health24.com/News/Public-Health/SAs-life-expectancy-Why-new-report-is-misleading-20150107 | 2,712 | Culture | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
There are leaders, and then there are good leaders. A good leader is someone people follow because they trust the path he or she has chosen to walk on. A good leader inspires and encourages others to become their best version and, in becoming thus, contributes towards making the corporation a force to reckon with. Need... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/kogi-on-red-alert-as-dss-arrests-faleke-audu/According | 681 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999998 |
People take cover from a stun grenade and tear gas after a skirmish between locals and foreign nationals as thousands of people take part in the “peace march” against xenophobia in Durban, South Africa, on April 16, 2015. South African President Jacob Zuma on April 16 appealed for the end of attacks on immigrants as a ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/south-africans-attack-nigerians/ | 699 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
Can grow up to 4ft long!
Glass Lizard Scientific Classification
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Glass Lizard Conservation Status
Glass Lizard Facts
“The glass lizard has no legs but is not a snake, making it a unique and interesting member of the reptile kingdom.”
The glass lizar... | https://a-z-animals.com/animals/glass-lizard/ | 3,168 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999989 |
FIRST, let me say that the plan of the Fulanis to subtly take over Nigeria has been an old plan. Let me also say that, the cattle Fulanis are one ethnic group in Nigeria. Not all the Fulanis are cattle rearers. Only the cattle Fulani are. There are other Fulanis in the Fulani ethnic group who are not cattle rearers.
Th... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/design-take-nigeria-fulanis/ | 2,182 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
An abode in Lagos
More than 40 percent of extremely poor people in the world will be living in Nigeria and DR Congo by 2050, a report by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed.
In the 2018 goalkeepers report released, yesterday, the foundation said by 2050, Nigeria will have 152 million people in extreme povert... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/over-40-of-worlds-poorest-will-live-in-nigeria-congo-by-2050-report/ | 455 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999962 |
Dental caries or tooth decay is a very common problem for adults and children these days. Our food habits are such that they include a wide variety of junk food and super-rich carbohydrates.
Coconut oil has been in use since ancient times for a wide variety of reasons, primarily for good hair growth. However, this oil ... | https://www.icliniq.com/health-articles/health-topics/dental-oral-health/prevent-tooth-decay-with-coconut-oil?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C9588096909 | 1,217 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999987 |
Migration Information Source
Whether as migrant-sending or migrant-receiving locations—or both—many countries have rich, complex international and internal migration histories. MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source, offers resources on more than 100 nations. Written by leading scholars, these articles ... | http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=7885 | 315 | Politics | 2 | es | 0.825381 |
By Patrick Dele Cole
Nearly fifty years ago, it is said that people in Enugu, Nsukka, Ngwo, and Abakaliki had little clothes to cover themselves. In 1947, the District Officer prohibited nude people coming to the Ogbete Market in Enugu. Yet, in 20 short years the Igbo were the number one traders in textile. The Onitsha... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/the-igbo-giant-strides-against-all-odds/ | 5,973 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
Gerald A. Lawson, a largely self-taught engineer who became a pioneer in electronic video entertainment, creating the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges, died on Saturday in Mountain View, Calif. He was 70 and lived in Santa Clara, Calif.
The cause was complications of diabetes, said his ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/technology/personaltech/14lawson.html?_r=1 | 1,128 | Culture | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
By Theodore Ihenetu
THERE is a growing movement in some parts of the world to make neighbourhoods, cities, and communities better for the increasing ageing population. Whether these initiatives are called liveable communities, senior- and- child-friendly cities or intergenerational communities for ageing-in-place, this... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/tinubu-sets-up-constitutional-review-cttee-on-police-reforms/amp/Hands | 2,167 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
LITERATURE AND ETHNICITY: Is literature shaped by the cultural contexts of the authors?
Being keynote address presented in Port Harcourt , Rivers State by CHINUA ACHEBE at the 2011 Garden City Literary Festival
ETHNICITY is a somewhat problematic word. The great American anthropologist and poet, Stanley Diamond, used s... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/achebes-last-keynote-address/ | 4,289 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
Panic over Ebola has the makers of dietary supplements aggressively targeting Africans, claiming to have a cure for the lethal virus.
Late this week, both the World Health Organization and the United States Food and Drug Administration issued strong warnings about false Ebola cures. The latter threatened American compa... | http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/science/agencies-issue-warnings-over-bogus-ebola-cures.html?_r=0this | 327 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
“No To Racism” campaign backlash
How can people be so blind?
Sadly, it seems that racism is rife in Italian football (soccer). The highest football division (Serie A) is in the news fairly regularly as one after another reported incidents of abuse are added to the long list of prior instances. Those within the main foo... | https://creation.com/racism-campaign-backlash | 1,643 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
Lockdowns were imposed in parts of Beijing on Saturday to try to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus cluster, highlighting the challenges that lie ahead even for places where outbreaks are under control.
There are fears of a resurgence in local transmissions in China, where the outbreak curve has been months ahead ... | https://www.channelstv.com/2020/06/13/china-imposes-fresh-lockdown-on-beijing-as-new-covid-19-cases-emerge/amp/ | 986 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999884 |
Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world, preserved until now. It is this state that helped to establish Islam by adopting its territory and providing protection to the first Muslims who resettled there because of the oppression of the pagans of Mecca. How is Islam in Ethiopia today?
Its story reflected ten... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/895800/how-islam-gain-roots-in-ethiopia-the-historical-symbol-of.html | 1,388 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
Scientists have long known what causes sickle-cell disease and its devastating effects: a single mutation in one errant gene. But for decades, there has been only modest progress against an inherited condition that mainly afflicts people of African descent.
With advances in gene therapy, that is quickly changing — so m... | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/health/sickle-cell-gene-therapy.html?emc=edit_na_20190127&nl=breaking-news&nlid=54795170ing-news&ref=cta | 293 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999958 |
Why would alien countries name present day Ghana Gold Coast, then abandon gold standard to back their promissory notes with mere printed paper? African currencies used to have some value under their rule before Independence. While they gave Independence, they would not relinquish economic independence. They have been a... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/775839/five-hundred-african-currency-to-one-is-illogical-by-gold-st.html | 1,271 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
By Ola Ajayi
Ibadan — OVER five million sickle cell patients in Nigeria and other African countries can now heave a sigh of relief as the University of Ibadan in partnership with the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and University of Loyola, Chicago have discovered a permanent cure for the terminal disease.
The cur... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/uch-usa-varsities-discover-cure-for-sickle-cell-anaemia/ | 714 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999977 |
Desperately seeking asylum in the United States
On behalf of Eric Benal
Recently, a 26-year-old Nigerian man named Oliver won his asylum case. Officially granted asylee status, he is now free to live as a legal United States resident.
In the U.S., Oliver would seem rather unremarkable – a normal young man trying to bui... | http://www.ericmbernallaw.com/Articles/Desperately-seeking-asylum-in-the-United-States.shtml | 581 | Travel | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
A child under 15 dies every five seconds around the world – UN report
Children from the highest mortality countries are up to 60 times more likely to die in the first five years of life than those from the lowest mortality countries, report also says.
NEW YORK/ GENEVA/ WASHINGTON D.C., 18 September 2018 – An estimated ... | https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/child-under-15-dies-every-five-seconds-around-world-un-report | 1,544 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999922 |
MODERN Babylon, also known in Revelation 17:5, as Mystery, Babylon the great, the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, inherited all her ungodly festivities, from Ancient Babylon, one of which is Easter festivity.
Easter is a Chaldean word, pronounced as ISHTAR. It is also called Ashtaroth. It is a goddess ... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/easter-an-ungodly-festivity-of-ancient-babylon/ | 758 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999952 |
By Babajide Komolafe
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday reported that economic activities declined faster in June, confirming that the nation’s economy formally entered into recession in the second quarter of the year. Economic recession is a period of general decline in economic activities and it is typically... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/nigerias-economy-slides-recession-q2/ | 1,143 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999937 |
Okonjo-Iweala: Begs for time
By Emeka Anaeto, Economy Editor
Emerging economies of Nigeria, Indonesia and Mexico could push the UK and France out of the top ten economies of the world by 2050 provided they are able to build their institutions to global standards, diversify their economies and sustain growth friendly po... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nigeria-indonesia-mexico-to-displace-uk-france-out-of-top-10-largest-economies/#sthash.fJnUTZPD.dpuf | 1,439 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
Don’t fall for the bait and switch
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thinking
YES and NO
We observe variation, mutation and natural selection in living things.
Evolutionists call this ‘evolution’, and this is why they claim that evolution is true.
We see how the environment affects the survival of these different animals... | https://creation.com/don-t-fall-for-the-bait-and-switch | 880 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
How stress, poor nutrition causes baldness
A consultant dermatologist, Dr Glory Iwuchukwu, on Monday identified genetic factors, stress and poor nutrition as the major causes of baldness in middle aged men.
Dr Iwuchukwu, who works at the Lagos University teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, made the disclosure to the N... | http://thenationonlineng.net/new/how-stress-poor-nutrition-causes-baldness/ | 525 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999899 |
© Spirit Science and Metaphysics
A book titled
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Rob... | http://www.sott.net/article/271933-Scientists-claim-that-Quantum-Theory-proves-consciousness-moves-to-another-universe-at-deathSo | 1,875 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999956 |
INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation, ILO’s Director-General, Guy Ryder has warned that there are still 152 million victims of child labour worldwide, and called on the international community to work together to achieve the total eradication of child labour by 2025.
In his opening address to the IV Global Conference on t... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/04/breaking-nafdac-approves-pfizer-biotech-covid-19-vaccine-for-use-in-nigeria/amp/Stil | 357 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999969 |
The United Kingdom (Britain) ended nearly 50 years (47 years) of integration with Europe, making a historic exit from the EU after years of bitter arguments to chart its own uncertain path. PM Boris Johnson said the country had “taken back control.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised a “new era of friendly c... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/breaking-britain-officially-exits-european-union/ | 619 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaafi who ruled the country from 1969 till his death in 2011 was killed during the Libyan civilian war that broke out as a result of protests against the Gaddafi government which was causing continued hunger and poverty across the nation. Muammar Gaddafi was said to have fled to Sirte on the o... | https://olatorera.com/who-killed-muammar-gaddafi-why/ | 830 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999971 |
Foreign Loan Borrowers Used As Indebted Farm Workers & Serfs
Loan owners usually encourage and push borrowers into more debts at comparatively low teaser interest rate. On the premise that the richest countries are also the world's biggest debtors. After all, they tell us Africa's loans compared to GDP are still low un... | https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/292269/foreign-loan-borrowers-used-as-indebted-farm-workers-serfs.html | 1,480 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999973 |
Dr Chibawanye Ene, a US-based Nigerian Doctor, has won the 2019 Ronald L. Bittner Award on Brain Tumor Research.
A statement from the Clinical Department, Applied Radiation Oncology U.S., said Ene received the award at the 2019 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting held from Apr... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/05/nigerian-doctor-wins-brain-tumor-research-award-in-u-s/ | 470 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999926 |
India has surpassed Nigeria as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people.
The World Poverty Clock, WPC, said this in its recent update, considering the COVID-19 pandemic economic effect.
The World Poverty Clock is an online tool that monitors the progress against poverty globally and regionally and pr... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/india-overtakes-nigeria-as-worlds-poverty-capital/amp/ | 240 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999933 |
By Kolawole Olaniyan
WHAT does corruption look like? The short answer is: not what you think it does, at least according to President Goodluck Jonathan who while recently “rethinking corruption” said that: “Over 70% of what are called corruption [offences], even by the EFCC [Economic and Financial Crimes Commission] an... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/corruption-really-mean/#sthash.ELhDIUKU.OXbdLHnm.dpuf | 2,059 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999973 |
WASHINGTON — As a teenager, Keoni Gandall already was operating a cutting-edge research laboratory in his bedroom in Huntington Beach, Calif. While his friends were buying video games, he acquired more than a dozen pieces of equipment — a transilluminator, a centrifuge, two thermocyclers — in pursuit of a hobby that on... | https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/biohackers-gene-editing-virus.html | 312 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999956 |
Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world's poorest places, according to a report to be issued today by an environmental organizati... | http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/technology/24junk.html?ex=1287806400&en=59b8642bb6f7fc16&ei=5088http://www.dancewithshadows.com/computer_recycle.aspThe | 486 | Business | 3 | en | 0.999979 |
Warn govts against reduced funding for HIV
By Joseph Erunke
THE Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS, has raised the alarm that the disruptions in HIV treatment following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic could cause more than 500,000 additional HIV related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in the next one... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/covid-19-may-cost-africa-500000-additional-hiv-deaths-in-1-year-%e2%80%95-unaids/ | 922 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
More widows than widowers
Sex hormones, social factors play a role
Why the gap will keep widening
By Sola Ogundipe
Unlike in biblical times when men lived to be hundreds of years old and the women were left far behind in the biogical age race, the tables have been turned today as the men are now trailing the women.
In ... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/why-women-live-longer-than-men-2/ | 1,986 | Family | 3 | en | 0.999979 |
SINCE the pogrom against Ndigbo of 1966, that led to the the declaration of the Republic of Biafra among the South Easterners of Nigeria , and the subsequent civil war, from 1967 to 1970, in which Biafrans were defeated, many do not know what to do with the name Biafra, which was drawn from the Bight of Biafra at the S... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/which-way-for-biafra/#sthash.dj80oS70.dpuf | 1,342 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
Yoruba Must Reestablish Its Values System Earlier To Curb Prodigals
Nigerians have turned into a case study of how money could turn a rich country into abject poverty. The worship of money and greed for more without knowing what to do with it has made Nigerians the laughingstock of fellow Africans. Yet, we glorify ours... | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/325268/yoruba-must-reestablish-its-values-system-earlier-to-curb-pr.html | 1,467 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
As twelve-year-old Marlee starts middle school in 1958 Little Rock, it feels like her whole world is falling apart. The Governor of Arkansas has ordered all high schools shut in Marlee's hometown of Little Rock in response to a federal order to integrate schools, and her older sister has been sent away to live with the... | http://www.amightygirl.com/the-lions-of-little-rock | 248 | Education | 3 | en | 0.99996 |
By Michael Eboh
Nigeria, over the last seventeen years, has recorded huge earnings from the petroleum industry, but had been unable to utilize the funds to improve the lives of its citizens, neither has the country used it to develop the economy.
Specifically, data compiled from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/nigeria-earned-squandered-n77trn-oil-revenue-17-years/ | 1,398 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999935 |
Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) says no African country is silent on racism and xenophobia, as all nations on the continent condemned such actions.
He said this in a special interview with NAN in Abuja, during his first official visit to the country as President of the ... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/no-african-country-is-silent-on-racism-xenophobia-unga-president/amp/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&__twitter_impression=trueCc | 577 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
LONDON — Facing the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, with almost 1,000 fatalities in West Africa, the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency on Friday, demanding an extraordinary response — only the third such declaration of its kind since regulations permitting such alarms ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/world/europe/who-declares-ebola-in-west-africa-a-health-emergency.html?_r=0http://news.yahoo.com/benin-waiting-test-results-two-possible-ebola-cases-220918393.html | 264 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999939 |
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, a founding father of Nigerian nationalism, died Saturday in his hometown of Ikenne in Ogun state. He was 78 years old.
Chief Awolowo, a lawyer, publisher and politician, served as Premier of the self-governing Western region from 1954 until Nigeria achieved full independence from Britain in 1960.... | http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/11/obituaries/chief-obafemi-awolowo-dies-a-nigeria-nationalist-leader.html | 211 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999912 |
A profile on the Black Hebrew Israelite movement:
Founder: Various leaders for different sects. There is no primary leader today. First started in the United States before the Civil War.
Headquarters: Various major cities across the United States with state chapters. There does not appear to be a central headquarter of... | https://carm.org/black-hebrew-israelites | 5,639 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999922 |
By Sola Ogundipe
NIGERIANS seeking medical treatment from health facilities in India and Pakistan may be at risk of contracting a new superbug infection that is said to be resistant to virtually all known antibiotics.
The infection which makes an enzyme called the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM-1), was first d... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/health-workers-shut-nafdac/http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=90573The | 492 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999901 |
According to the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, Nigeria has about 19.8 million children who are malnourished, giving Nigeria the highest burden of stunting in Africa and the second highest in the world.
About 70 percent of children under five are anaemic as child nutrition is core to human capital development i... | https://www.channelstv.com/2023/07/23/kano-battles-malnutrition-as-1-5m-children-under-five-at-risk/ | 523 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999962 |
The Bible does not specifically state what happened to Jesus after He died on the cross. Because of this, there is debate surrounding the answer to the question of where He went and what He did. So, I will present differing views so you might know the scope of the answer and decide for yourself which position is prefer... | http://ow.ly/eWFE50NEuz8 | 1,092 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
WHERE TO BUY SOLAR PANELS IN NIGERIA?
The heart of a Solar electric system and power solution is the Solar Panel itself. There are various types of Solar Panel to generate electricity from the sun.Solar Panel refers to a panel designed to absorb the sun's rays as a source of energy for generating electricity or heating... | http://www.kara.com.ng/solar-power | 1,468 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
Withholding Tax is an advance payment of income tax. In principle, WHT is a payment on account of the ultimate income tax liability of the taxpayer or company.
Withholding tax is not a separate tax on its own and does not confer an exemption from the filing of annual tax returns by the company which had suffered WHT. T... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/04/covid-19-rivers-confirmed-case-tests-negative-under-treatment/Admin | 1,613 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999998 |
Former President Jonathan giving his speech at Oxford
BEING A SPEECH BY DR. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, FORMER PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT:
“A CONVERSATION TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE ISSUES RELATING TO THE PROMOTION OF YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP” AT THE OXFORD UNION
24TH OCTOBER 2016.
- It is my pleasure and a great... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/full-speech-ex-president-goodluck-jonathan-oxford-union/ | 2,506 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999918 |
•Says civil war took Igbo several years back
•States traditional rites for New Yam Festival
By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka
EZE Obidiegbwu Onyesoh, the traditional ruler of Nri, Anambra State which is regarded as the ancestral abode of Igbo people, has said that the loss of the three-year Nigeria-Biafra war took the Igbo nati... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/no-war-igbo-eze-nri-warns/ | 775 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
By Brian Pinto
On the 20th of February 2016, Nigeria’s President Buhari hardened his stance against devaluing the Nigerian Naira because he believes devaluation will not help the country “as it had few exports apart from oil and depended on imports whose cost would rise with such a move.” This view is shared by Governo... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/naira-devaluation-doom-nigerias-economic-history-repeating/ | 2,251 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999962 |
Updated: Wednesday, Feb. 4.
The oil industry, with its history of booms and busts, is in a new downturn.
Earnings are down for companies that have made record profits in recent years, forcing them to decommission rigs and sharply cut investments in exploration and production.
The cause is the plunging price of a barrel... | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/business/energy-environment/oil-prices.html?_r=0 | 173 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
Health workers fumigating.
The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.
More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countrie... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/coronavirus-enigma-experts-ask-why-africa-seems-to-have-few-cases/ | 1,065 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
In a rare public display, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta strongly disagreed with President Obama’s call for the African nation to prioritize gay rights, saying it is currently a “non-issue.”
Obama arrived in Kenya Friday, his first visit to his ancestral homeland since becoming president. While the visit was mostly in... | http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/25/kenyan-president-publicly-rejects-president-obamas-gay-rights-message-video/Video | 499 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999977 |
Buddhism and Christianity make mutually exclusive truth claims at nearly every essential point. There is simply no way to combine these two systems without completely redefining one or both of them. Since the 1960s, however, as Buddhism has made increasing inroads into western life and as American culture has become mo... | http://ow.ly/YUJs50JXJj8 | 2,487 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999998 |
One of the greatest computer programmers of all time grew up near Seattle. He saw an upstart company, Intel, making computers on a chip and was among the first people to see the potential of these so-called microcomputers. He dedicated himself to writing software for the new device and, by one account, “wrote the softw... | https://www.fastcompany.com/3002729/facts-luck | 690 | Career | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
By Esther Onyegbula
Global Environmental and Climate Conservation Initiative (GECCI) has called on the government through the Ministry of Education to restructure the curriculum to ensure that the third term school curriculum emphasises crop production.
The organisation gave the charge during its sensitisation and advo... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/428-federal-ministries-depts-agencies-cant-pay-salaries/Restructure | 651 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999975 |
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has stated that Nigeria is not one of the African countries recording remarkable improvement in its human development index.
The agency in its 2013 Human Development Index (HDI) Report listed Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali, ... | http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/03/19/nigeria-is-not-improving-its-human-development-index-undp/ | 239 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999928 |
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