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In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts Dr. Young predicts that it won’t be long before an unscrupulous suitor could ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?_r=1&em | 1,249 | Romance | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
We once watched as this physically challenged man struggled in a motorized wheel chair to get himself into Western Union office in order to send money to relatives in East Africa. He could not be a rich man, probably sharing his little disability payments with someone he considered less fortunate. Everyone paid attenti... | http://www.modernghana.com/news/667324/cash-and-carry-bureaucrats-guzzled-foreign-income-dry.html# | 1,338 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
File: Results from the latest NOI Poll showed that 9 in 10 Nigerians believe the highest abusers of drugs and substance are teenagers and young adults aged between 15 and 29 years old.It has also emerged true from this poll that the most abused substance in Nigeria is marijuana.
By Sola Ogundipe
New research suggests a... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/08/marijuana-smokers-prone-to-head-neck-cancers-study/ | 603 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999933 |
While several young Nigerians are busy complaining their country has not done anything for them, 35- year- old US- based Nigerian born researcher, Yemi Adesokan, has put his country’s name on the map of nations of innovation.
Adesokan’s discovery which has potential to change the way mankind responds to disease pathoge... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/adesokan-scientist-wins-mit%E2%80%99s-world-top-young-innovators-award-2/ | 1,090 | Culture | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
Gender equality is not just about placing both the male and female sexes on the same level biologically or in terms physical strength or religious doctrines but is also achieved both women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of life. It embodies placing the needs of women and men as equal... | https://olatorera.com/top-5-reasons-why-the-nigerian-senate-must-pass-the-gender-equality-bill-into-law/ | 1,046 | Family | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
ON New Year’s Day, in my ancestral hometown of Abba in Anambra State in eastern Nigeria, my family and I woke up to unbelievable news: the price of petrol had doubled. Overnight, the government had removed what it called the subsidy on fuel, and almost immediately, transport fares exploded and food prices rose astronom... | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/opinion/nigerias-latest-frustration.html?_r=3&hpI | 532 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999998 |
Yes, Jesus died for the sins of the people who lived before he was crucified. If he did not, then none of the Old Testament saints could be saved and go to heaven. 1 Peter 2:24 says that Jesus bore our sins in his body on the cross. This means that he bore our sins even though we were in the distant future compared to ... | https://carm.org/did-jesus-die-for-the-sins-of-people-who-lived-before-he-was-crucified | 541 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999998 |
ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Bank has recommended that for more Nigerians to travel by air at affordable fares and for airlines to operate profitably, the average number of domestic carriers should be 25.
For these airlines to operate profitably, it is expected that the Federal Government should assist in reducing the ch... | http://www.eturbonews.com/41333/world-bank-nigeria-should-have-25-domestic-carriers | 744 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
Why private schools pay peanuts
The minimum wage may be N19,000, but teachers, especially those working in low-cost private schools earn far less. The result: high staff turnover. KOFOWOROLA BELO-OSAGIE reports on how teachers struggle to make ends meet, while proprietors fight to keep them.
Last session, Ebunoluwa Mar... | http://thenationonlineng.net/why-private-schools-pay-peanuts/ | 2,816 | Career | 2 | en | 0.999939 |
*For slavery, inhuman, degrading treatments, exploitation of Africans, African resources
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South
A Nigerian policymaker, Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, has demanded $5 trillion as reparations from Britain, and other colonial masters for slavery, inhuman, degrading treatment, and exploitat... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/ned-nwoko-demands-5-trillion-reparations-apology-from-colonial-masters/ | 526 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999814 |
Cattle grazing and the consequences thereof
Why should it get to killing of innocent Ghanaian farmers, raping of farmers’ wives and children and wanton destruction of people's livelihoods, all in the name of finding pasture? Nomads are persons who have no settlements and move from place to place, usually alongside thei... | https://www.graphic.com.gh/features/opinion/cattle-grazing-and-the-consequences-thereof.html | 1,111 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999994 |
The World Health Organisation has identified Nigeria as the country with the highest figure of poliomyelitis cases.
The World Health Organisation Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr. David Okello, disclosed this in Lagos on Saturday, at the installation ceremony of the new District Governor of Rotary International Di... | http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/08/nigeria-is-the-worst-hit-polio-nation-who/ | 273 | Health | 2 | en | 0.99942 |
Says 47m Nigeria currently into practice
As African Water Ministers move to provide direction
open defecationBy Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
With barely five years ahead as a target to end Open Defecation, ODF, in Nigeria, the Federal Government has made it clear that it is not its responsibility to build toilets.
This was di... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/open-defecation-not-our-responsibility-to-build-toilets-fg/ | 1,380 | Health | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
Paul-Henri Nargeolet Has Made More Than 35 Titanic Site Trips
Mr. Nargeolet, a French maritime expert, is one of the five people aboard the missing submersible. He works for RMS Titanic, which owns the salvage rights to the wreck.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French maritime expert who has been on over 35 dives to the Titan... | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/nargeolet-titanic-submarine.html | 495 | Travel | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
(WIAT) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding the requirement for a negative COVID-19 test to all air passengers entering the United States effective January 26.
Testing before and after travel is a critical layer to slow the introduction and spread of COVID-19, the CDC reports. This strategy is ... | https://fox5sandiego.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-negative-covid-19-test-required-to-enter-us-by-air/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR3gfIe2T-8h6Ze5hfoCd9lbMiSFxM5RdMwVfq4mD_lfh6cxuuJHyb9-pzQ | 533 | Travel | 2 | en | 0.999966 |
The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials said Monday.
“The open-label trial will enroll 45 healthy adult volunteers ages 18 to 55 years over approximately 6 weeks,” the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in a statement.
“Th... | https://www.channelstv.com/2020/03/16/us-begins-first-human-trial-of-coronavirus-vaccine/ | 379 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999926 |
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. He was 82.
His agent in London said he had died after a brief illness.... | http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 | 358 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
It matters if Jesus died for us because it is only through the sacrificial death of Christ that we can be saved from the righteous judgment of God the Father. Our sin is rebellion against God. It is lawlessness (1 John 3:4). The consequence of sin is separation from God (Isaiah 59:2) and death (Romans 6:23). This means... | https://carm.org/answers-for-seekers/what-does-it-matter-if-jesus-died-for-me-or-not/ | 250 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
We tend to associate natural with good. A natural lifestyle, eating natural food, and natural remedies are all presented as superior to anything processed and artificial. After all, the word natural comes from nature, and nature is good, isn’t it?
“Natural” and “Transmutation of Species”
There is a term, widely used in... | https://adventistreview.org/magazine-article/2105-28/ | 2,599 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
A ferocious hail and rainstorm hit the city of Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on June 12, 2016, wreaking havoc on the streets and disrupting traffic.
The sudden onslaught congested sewers and turned roads into rivers, forcing drivers and passengers to abandon their vehicles in a bid to e... | https://watchers.news/2019/11/04/storm-amelie-france-november-2019/Ferocious | 213 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999969 |
Are Rats Getting Into Your Car?
Rodents are everywhere, and they can do considerable damage when they invade your vehicle. They might decide your car is a safe place to make a nest and a handy site to store food. If you can discourage them, you may win the battle.
There are dozens of techniques used to prevent mayhem b... | https://axleaddict.com/auto-repair/Mice-in-Your-Motor | 11,623 | Car Talk | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?ex=1307937600&en=d96a72b3c5f91c47&ei=5090More | 1,488 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999937 |
Story at a glance
- While the number of coronavirus cases has surpassed 205,000, more than 82,000 people have recovered.
- The World Health Organization says those who become infected generally experience mild illness and recover in about two weeks.
- The virus is an increased risk to people over the age of 60, and tho... | https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/487280-nearly-70000-people-have-recovered-from | 540 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999962 |
Johannesburg - South Africa's tax revenues jumped by 10.6% in the 2013/2014 fiscal year, helped by more people paying income tax due in part to tax changes, data showed on Tuesday.
Revenue from value-added tax rose more slowly, by 8.7%, curbed by the effects of a sluggish economy.
"Growth in domestic VAT (value-added t... | http://m.news24.com/fin24/Economy/Tax-coffers-swell-to-R900bn-20141104 | 365 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999962 |
WASHINGTON — A HISTORIC change of roles is at the heart of the clamor and turmoil over the collapse of oil prices, which have plummeted by 50 percent since September. For decades, Saudi Arabia, backed by the Persian Gulf emirates, was described as the “swing producer.” With its immense production capacity, it could rai... | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-the-price-of-oil.html?smid=li-share&_r=0 | 529 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999935 |
About 9.5 per cent of all deaths at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) were as a result of sudden death, according to a study conducted at the institution from 2010 2016.
Dr Francis Faduyile, a consultant anatomist and pathologist at LASUTH, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, said that the figur... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/24/to-be-led-by-the-blind/one | 747 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
By Eddie Mbadiwe
For one to appreciate the present and plan for the future, it is necessary that we understand the past. Let us look at Nigeria in silhouette pre 1 October 1960.
Flora Shaw who later became wife to Lord Lugard gave the name. Nigeria is pure and simple a creation of the British colonial administration. T... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/nigeria50-lugard-keeps-shaping-nigeria/ | 2,036 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.995946 |
High transportation cost responsible for inflation, says FG
By Nduka Chiejina (Assistant Editor)
The Federal Government has attributed the recent spike in inflation to the rising costs of moving goods across the country.
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, made this disclosure on Friday... | https://thenationonlineng.net/high-transportation-cost-responsible-for-inflation-says-fg/ | 264 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999889 |
‘90 % of teachers do not know about dyslexia’
By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie
With a prevalence rate of 20 per cent of any population dyslexic, an expert, Dr Adrienne Tikolo, has expressed concern that up to 90- 95 per cent of Nigerian teachers do not know about dyslexia – a neurological condition that makes it difficult for... | https://thenationonlineng.net/90-of-teachers-do-not-know-about-dyslexia/ | 772 | Education | 2 | en | 0.999969 |
Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?
This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about “failure to launch” and “boomerang kids.” Two new sitcoms feature grown children moving back in with their parents — “$#*! My Dad Says,” starring William Shatner as a divorced curmudgeon whose 20-s... | http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=meOne | 995 | Family | 2 | en | 0.999975 |
It’s one of the most famous chapters in evolution, so familiar that it regularly inspires New Yorker cartoons: Some 375 million years ago, our ancestors emerged from the sea, evolving from swimming fish to vertebrates that walked on land.
Scientists still puzzle over exactly how the transition from sea to land took pla... | http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/science/researchers-find-fish-that-walks-the-way-land-vertebrates-do.html | 269 | Religion | 4 | en | 0.99992 |
Here is a version of my lecture “Misquoting Jesus.” Some of you have seen a different version of the lecture (I’m sure I’ve posted one!); I’m particularly fond of this particular one, both because of its setting in the Washington National Cathedral and because, well, I just think I was on better form than usual. The le... | https://ehrmanblog.org/the-messages-of-jesus-and-paul-basically-the-same-or-fundamentally-different/Na | 633 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999983 |
WEDNESDAY, March 8, 2023 was celebrated all over the world as the International Women’s Day, IWD. Some romantically refer to the female gender as “the better half” of mankind. This is mere flatter because in practice, most cultures abnegate the position of women in society.
From human antiquity, societies grew on the p... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/avengers-strikes-agip-crude-pipeline-bayelsa/Their | 605 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999998 |
Muslims routinely claim that the Bible has been corrupted. They try and provide contradictions in God’s word to weaken its truth so that they can justify their support of the Quran. These ‘contradictions’ are usually differences in the numbers of populations, or ages, with occasional citations of differences in the bib... | http://ow.ly/IJAS50MhW61 | 1,129 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
By Shina Abubakar
OSOGBO—THE National Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday, pledged to establish mechanisms to control the use of internet to protect the nation’s cyberspace against attack.
The commission said the move is aimed at protecting children against dangerous online contents, ensure consumer privacy and d... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/cybercrime-ncc-to-regulate-use-of-internet/ | 357 | Phones | 2 | en | 0.9997 |
Astonishing figures that show the true scale of our online activity have been revealed. The new study, by chipmaker Intel, found that more than 204 million emails are sent every minute, while 47,000 apps are downloaded and retail giant Amazon rings up around $83,000 in sales.
Around 20 million photos and 6 million Face... | https://www.channelstv.com/2023/02/28/apc-national-assembly-candidates-in-rivers-east-demand-election-cancellation/Guess | 433 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
Who are we and where did we come from? With different kinds of people, languages, customs, cultures etc, many questions about creation remain unanswered.
What about death? That is more complicated than creation because many have different theories and opinions about death. Some say that the soul goes back to God after ... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/880926/the-mystery-surrounding-creation-and-life-after-death.html | 687 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
NPC puts Nigeria’s life expectancy at 52 years
The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that the current overall life expectancy of Nigeria stands at 52.2 years.
The Acting Chairman of NPC, Alhaji Hassan Bashir, stated this in New York while delivering Nigeria’s statement at the 52nd Session of the United Nati... | http://thenationonlineng.net/npc-puts-nigerias-life-expectancy-at-52-years/ | 762 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999897 |
Twenty-five years ago Abdullahi Tijjani had a vision for Kuki, a village in the north of Nigeria he became chief of at age 14: "Hunger will become a thing of the past once we marry modern technologies and traditional farming," he told reporter David Hecht when they met in 1984 in the mud-brick structure he called his p... | http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/nigeria-oil-rich-hungry | 318 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
Embrace Yoruba Itutu philosophy for inner peace by cultivating mindfulness and gratitude, and connecting with Orishas for divine guidance, focusing on composure, silence, and vitality. Engage in meditation and tapo chanting to enhance mental health and spiritual growth.
- Core Philosophy: Itutu, translating to coolness... | https://eightify.app/summary/personal-development-and-mindset/west-african-philosophy-of-calm-discover-inner-peace#:~:text=%F0%9F%98%8C- | 583 | Culture | 2 | en | 0.999389 |
Many atheists and scientists assert that morality is derived from our genetic makeup. In other words, morality is a product of genetic encoding. They sometimes reason that individuals who behave in a way that aids survival will pass on their genes. For example, if a person were to kill another person, the natural react... | http://carm.org/can-morality-be-genetically-based | 545 | Religion | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
VATICAN CITY (AFP) – The Vatican on Monday said late popes John Paul II and John XXIII would be made saints at an unprecedented joint ceremony on April 27, 2014 in a bid to unite Catholic conservatives and liberals.
Pope Francis made the historic announcement at a meeting of cardinals known as a consistory.
The canonis... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/vatican-sets-make-late-popes-john-paul-ii-john-xxiii-saints/ | 813 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999964 |
By Sunny Ikhioya
WHO would have imagined that, in less than six years, people will be slaughtered like rams in the South east region of Nigeria, the way Boko Haram terrorists and “bandits” operate in the North? Who would have imagined this? What is this telling us?
Every human being or society has the natural propensit... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/2023-challenges-of-the-south-east/ | 1,484 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999924 |
The warrior is noble and strong. His resolve is firm and his commitment is total. His is to kill, to shed blood and to be killed.
His is to die for his king and for a worthy cause. His is to protect and lay down his life for his faith, his nation, his people and his loved ones.
What manner of men are these whose spirit... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/of-warriors-and-heroes-by-fani-kayode/ | 1,681 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999762 |
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a developing nation in possession of a large population must be in want of a robust transport system. (Forgive me Jane Austen).
THERE is at least one concerted-effort activity that every free, hale and hearty Nigerian does every day and that is, move. From home to school, to ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/nigeria-rail-lines-commerce/ | 1,335 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
Church where Oba of Benin is General Overseer
On Akpakpava Road in the heart of Benin City, the Edo State capital, is a church founded over 500 years ago. The architectural design of the building tells its story. It does not advertise itself; yet has a large following. The Oba of Benin is its spiritual head, reports Os... | http://thenationonlineng.net/church-where-oba-of-benin-is-general-overseer/ | 945 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
The New World Translation (the Bible version produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses) has a number of problems. Among these is the fact that they frequently insert the name “Jehovah” into the New Testament where the original authors used the word “Lord.” This matters, in part, because it often obscures or even alters the other... | http://ow.ly/ypJF50MjGao | 1,390 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
BY EMEKA MAMAH
A Professor of Biotechnology, James Ogbonna has said “the future of man on earth depends to a great extent on Biotechnology because it potentially has solutions to all our problems,’’ including creating “human spare parts’’. Ogbonna spoke while delivering the 61 annual lecture of the University of Nigeri... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/biotech-can-create-human-spare-parts-%E2%80%94-don/ | 528 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999943 |
By Adefokun Tomiwa Michael
Open Source Software (OSS) has played very important roles in the growth of software technologies. Nigeria being a developing country that faces various socio-economic challenges; access to freely distributed solutions that have no restriction on selling the software as a component of an aggr... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/19/challenges-for-open-source-software-in-nigeria/ | 881 | Programming | 2 | en | 0.999985 |
Paris - Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal civil war that left about one million people dead.
On May 30, 1967, the military head of Nigeria's eastern region, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, declares "the independent Republic of Biafra"... | http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/biafra-a-painful-chapter-in-nigerias-history-20170528 | 963 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999922 |
‘To stop Ebola, we must end the virus called fear’
Dr. Marc Siegel, a practising internist, joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as a contributor in 2008. In this piece on the international news medium’s website, Siegel says the fear of Ebola is a bigger problem, which should be given more attention if the disease is to be st... | http://thenationonlineng.net/new/to-stop-ebola-we-must-end-the-virus-called-fear/ | 858 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
- A Cape Town history teacher will undergo sensitivity training after giving Grade 7 pupils the "fun" task of making a poster to advertise slaves.
- "We regret what has happened," says principal of Parklands College secondary faculty Sylvia Steyn.
- The assignment reads: "Fun Activity - Advertisements were placed in ne... | https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/cape-town-school-apologises-after-grade-7s-asked-to-make-slave-auction-poster-as-fun-activity-20200609 | 1,298 | Education | 2 | en | 0.999987 |
A supporter of Liberian opposition presidential candidate Winston Tubman shows her Tubman’s CDC party tattoo AFP PHOTO
What is tattoo?
Tattoo, according to Wikipedia, is a form of body modification made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.
The word “tattoo’’ reportedly has... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/people-wear-tattoo/ | 1,410 | Culture | 3 | en | 0.999907 |
MOST of us, including those too young to have lived a single day through it, associate the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) of the 1980s with the darkest period in Nigeria’s economic history. The popular narrative generally considers SAP to have both caused the problems and failed to fix them, laying the blame squar... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/theres-a-lot-more-to-learn-from-ibbs-sap-than-meets-the-eye/ | 1,911 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999996 |
An organisation, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP-Nigeria), has urged Nigerians to take deliberate actions to reduce the impact of cancer on individuals and communities.
The organisation made this call in a statement made available through email on Saturday by its Executive Secretary, Dr Abia Nzelu.
T... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/world-cancer-day-group-calls-for-deliberate-action-to-reduce-burden/ | 634 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
For Tom Kiefer, they were symbols of humanity.
Half-used bars of soap. Bibles with pages earmarked and worn from prayer. Wallets with credit cards and driver’s licenses. And lots of unopened cans of tuna.
For more than a decade, Mr. Kiefer worked as a janitor at the Customs and Border Protection center in Why, Ariz., b... | https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/arts/immigrant-belongings-border-photos.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=curLalasticlalaDominique | 315 | Travel | 2 | en | 0.999956 |
ONE week from today, the United Nations estimates, the world’s population will reach seven billion. Because censuses are infrequent and incomplete, no one knows the precise date — the Census Bureau puts it somewhere next March — but there can be no doubt that humanity is approaching a milestone.
The first billion peopl... | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/opinion/seven-billion.html | 2,117 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.99999 |
A sign warning of the dangers of ebola outside a government hospital in Freetown on August 13, 2014. The World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that the latest death toll from the Ebola virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria had claimed more than1000 lives. Health Organisations are looking into the possib... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/liberia-issues-shoot-sight-order-sierra-leonean-immigrants/ | 1,537 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999908 |
Brittany is a licensed attorney who specializes in criminal law, legal writing, and appellate practice and procedure.
Did you know that the state and federal government can take your stuff without charging you with a crime? Through a legal process called civil forfeiture, the government can seize your personal property... | https://study.com/academy/lesson/civil-forfeiture-definition-laws-abuse.html | 1,471 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999989 |
People often dismiss the Bible out of hand by saying that it is full of contradictions. I typically reply with, “Really. Do you know of any? Could you quote me one or two?” Usually, they come up short. What they think is a contradiction is not really a contradiction. Let me illustrate. Let’s say that you and I are acro... | https://carm.org/answers-for-seekers/the-bible-is-full-of-contradictions/ | 502 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
File: Children affected by poverty
European states warned the United Nations that more than 800,000 people are cut off from aid and may be starving in northeast Nigeria, contradicting government assertions that a crisis has abated and rebuking the world body for failing to secure access.
Nigeria’s government has said t... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/nigerians-at-risk-of-starvation-european-states-say/ | 640 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999977 |
Excess Crude Account…and the controversy lingers
It was created to save funds for the rainy day. But, the Excess Crude Account (ECA) has been a conduit pipe to siphon cash by ECA’s managers, writes Assistant Editor Nduka Chiejina.
Those who created the Excess Crude Account (ECA) in 2004 meant well. It was opened during... | http://thenationonlineng.net/excess-crude-account-and-the-controversy-lingers/ | 4,751 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
WASHINGTON — THE indictment last week of the N.F.L. player Adrian Peterson by a Texas grand jury for reckless or negligent injury to a child has set into relief the harmful disciplinary practices of some black families. Mr. Peterson used a “switch,” a slim, leafless tree branch, to beat his 4-year-old son, raising welt... | http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0 | 617 | Family | 2 | en | 0.999962 |
By Amaka Abayomi & Laju Arenyeka
As Nigerian children celebrate 2012 Children’s Day on Sunday, it is sad to note that over 40 per cent of them will celebrate on the street; without access to basic education as economic and socio-cultural factors keep over 10.1 million of the 35.6 million children aged between six and 1... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/childrens-day-10m-children-out-of-school-nationwide/ | 973 | Education | 2 | en | 0.999886 |
The quest for every scientific endeavour is to collect data and make sense out of it. Engineering was born from understanding the behaviour of systems and materials through analyzing data and mapping patterns from it.
Civil engineering is a branch of engineering, with its principles always relying on empirical methods,... | https://vocal.media/education/areas-machine-learning-is-utilized-in-the-field-of-civil-engineering-research | 755 | Education | 3 | en | 0.999891 |
Who did Moses see when he saw the backside of God? He was seeing the pre-incarnate Christ. Let’s take a look.
“Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen,” (Exodus 33:23).
Jesus said in John 6:46, “Not that any man has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has s... | https://carm.org/verses-examined-ot/who-did-moses-see-in-exodus-3323/#who | 536 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999964 |
Avoid using your smartphone any how…
By Sola Ogundipe
A bra may not be the safest place to keep your smartphone. Neither is a pants or trousers pocket. As a woman, there is a very good reason why you should never put your smartphone in your bra. There is increasing evidence linking radiation from smartphones and breast... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/s-not-smart-put-smartphone-bra-trousers/ | 1,173 | Phones | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
There are African countries breeding more hungry and angry Youths than any other Continent in the world. We already know they are the face of poverty that has moved from Asia to Africa and sadly increasing. What is obvious in most African countries is the impunity, indifference, and arrogance of the minority Nouveau ri... | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1039427/hungry-angry-youths-can-only-be-temporarily-subd.html | 1,357 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
LAGOS, Nigeria — Forty-six years ago this month, Nigeria’s civil war came to an end with the surrender of the secessionist Republic of Biafra. The two and a half years of fighting took some two million lives, but when the bitter conflict ended the triumphant Nigerian government proclaimed, “No Victor, No Vanquished.” N... | https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/opinion/nigerians-are-better-together.html#click=https:///AhmGSGevWh | 678 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999962 |
By Kunle Ajibade
Bill Clinton, in an article he wrote for TIME magazine in 1999 titled “Captain Courageous,” described one of the best American presidents, F.D. Roosevelt, as an architect of grand political designs. Obafemi Awolowo could also be described as an architect of grand political designs. He was a great polit... | https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/04/24/the- | 2,797 | Romance | 2 | en | 0.999954 |
Too big to fail or too big to succeed?
It is not clear why Rwandan President Paul Kagame thinks Nigeria is too big to fail, or whether in fact that was the idea he sought to convey when he surveyed Nigeria’s problems and proffered solutions. At any rate, a newspaper gave that headline to the Kagame prognosis on Nigeria... | https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-fg-declares-tuesday-wednesday-public-holidays/Too | 811 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999887 |
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how Russia helped Nigeria defeat the Biafra warlords during the nation’s civil war between 1967 and 1970.
Buhari spoke in his speech at the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia on Thursday.
Buhari said Nigeria’s relationship with Russia began in 1960 with the old Sovi... | https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/10/24/how-russia-helped-nigeria-defeat-biafra-during-civil-war-buhari/ | 969 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999975 |
The passionate, sometimes rhythmic, language-like patter that pours forth from religious people who “speak in tongues” reflects a state of mental possession, many of them say. Now they have some neuroscience to back them up.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took brain images of five women while they spoke ... | http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/health/07brain.html?_r=0By | 746 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
The Nigerian scam may seem like a scourge of the Internet age, but it actually predates email. Before we started getting all-caps proposals in our inboxes, con men in West Africa plied their trade by fax and paper letter. Some of the first scams to make their way to Western Europe arrived by telex in 1989 and 1990, whe... | http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/magazine/who-made-that-nigerian-scam.html?smid=tw-nytimesBy | 624 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999989 |
By Femi Aribisala
If God were to inspire me to write a book, the words in my book would still be my words. They would not be the word of God.
Ask a Christian a question about Jesus, and he might answer with a quotation from Paul. But who tells us Paul speaks for Jesus? Why do we need Paul to speak for Jesus when Jesus ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/the-word-of-paul-is-not-the-word-of-god-1/ | 1,631 | Religion | 2 | en | 0.999916 |
The World Bank data on ease of doing business released this year ranked Nigeria 169 out of 190 countries. Ten sub-indices were used for this ranking such as starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, tra... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/5-ways-power-shortage-affecting-nigerian-businesses/ | 446 | Business | 2 | en | 0.999977 |
By Afe Babalola
The 1999 Constitution:
It is beyond comprehension that 20 years after Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, we have retained the 1999 military Constitution as our supreme law. The 1999 constitution continues to limit the capabilities of states and local governments to sustain developmental ... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/05/awoism-and-the-unending-search-for-transformational-leadership-in-nigeria-challenges-2/ | 1,555 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999987 |
A new report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that access to relevant malaria prevention and treatment interventions has increased significantly, leading to a 33% decline in malaria-related deaths in Africa.
In the 2011 World Malaria Report, which the world body released in Geneva and New Yo... | http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/06/12/i-reported-otedolas-bribe-to-police-and-efcc-in-april-farouk-lawan/Who | 634 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999975 |
By Taye Obateru
Jos — A health centre in Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State is almost turning into a snake bite treatment centre, recording over 300 cases of snake bites monthly.
According to statistics from Comprehensive Health Centre Zamko owned by the Jos University Teaching Hospital, over half ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/30/plateau-lg-records-300-snake-bites-monthly/ | 380 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999981 |
UPDATE: 29-6-2016 10:00 EDT: Facebook responded to the fake status on Wednesday, saying: “You may have seen a post telling you to copy and paste a notice to retain control over things you share on Facebook. Don’t believe it. You own your content and can control how it is shared through your privacy settings.”
Facebook ... | http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/06/facebook-posts-public-note/ | 408 | Phones | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
When was the first time you saw that bumper sticker: Spending My Children Inheritance? It was supposed to be a joke on flashy expensive sport cars. Nowhere can that be real than in African countries, the richest Continent potentially, in the world. It is not the number of millionaires; as Africa deserves to have ours. ... | http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/159292/50/orphans-inheritance-looted-despite-man-made-natura.html | 1,378 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999996 |
Harare - Zimbabwean government critics on Thursday slammed a decision to award the Chinese equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize to the southern African country’s controversial leader of 35 years, Robert Mugabe.
The decision is “an attack on the people of Zimbabwe,” said Luke Tamborinyoka, spokesman for the main oppositi... | http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/mugabe-awarded-confucius-peace-prize-1.1934537#.Vin7quGevIUWonders | 412 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999627 |
China must close down ‘wet markets’ now
As the world gets smaller and populations travel with speed around the world, it is time that the world focus on the domestic food laws in countries like China and others that are not up to the standards of health, safety and welfare — for their own populations and those beyond t... | https://thehill.com/opinion/international/490528-china-must-close-down-wet-markets-now | 1,052 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999916 |
A rally to mark HIV/Aids Day.
By Ebele Orakpo, with Agency Reports
Scientists have discovered that apart from pollinating crops, producing honey, beeswax , propolis, pollen and royal jelly, bees could also be the solution to the deadly Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and cancer.
Recently, a team of scientists at the... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/hiv-cancer-bee-venom-to-the-rescue/ | 617 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999937 |
Review the 'Possible Causes' mentioned above and visually examine the corresponding wiring harness and connectors. Ensure to check for any damaged components and inspect the connector pins for signs of being broken, bent, pushed out, or corroded.
To diagnose the P1157 Honda code, it typically requires 1.0 hour of labor... | https://www.autocodes.com/p1157_honda.html | 646 | Car Talk | 2 | en | 0.99999 |
By Sola Ogundipe
Castrated men tend to live much longer than fully endowed men, according to a new study published in Current Biology, that could offer clues on how to extend the male lifespan.
Experts say possible negative consequences of castration include “decreased libido,depression and loss of physical strength.
R... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/castrated-men-live-longer/ | 223 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999958 |
Scientists discover cure for diabetes
There is good news for diabetic patients. They will no longer need to inject insulin – thanks to a treatment involving the use of insulin-producing cells which Harvard University scientists discovered how to make.
The cure could, therefore, be imminent as the scientists have produc... | http://thenationonlineng.net/new/scientists-discover-cure-for-diabetes/ | 797 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999952 |
Around the globe, people will be coming together to mark World Kidney Day. How will you be celebrating? Let us know by posting information about your activity on our activity map!
Take our quick fun-quiz and test your kidney health knowledge!
While kidney disease can affect people of all ages and races, women tend to f... | http://www.worldkidneyday.org | 366 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999992 |
Why Nigerians hate Igbo, by Chinua Achebe
Nigeria’s foremost novelist Chinua Achebe has claimed that Nigerians, especially of the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba stocks, do not like his Igbo ethnic group because of the southeast’s cultural advantage.
He made this claim in his new book, There was a Country, which has genera... | https://thenationonlineng.net/why-nigerians-hate-igbo-by-chinua-achebe/ | 817 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999918 |
Could a swing state halt the vote count?
If the certification of votes is blocked, our next president could be selected by the next U.S. House of Representatives.
- By Megan Bellamy and Natalie Crawford
Yet again, the outcome of our presidential election this November may come down to one swing state where the vote is ... | http://thenationonlineng.net/2019-plan-for-consensus-candidate-unsettles-pdp/Could | 1,042 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.99987 |
By Sola Ogundipe , Chioma Obinna & Ebele Onuorah
LAGOS – Nigeria will be the first African country to access the benefit of a new protective vaccine that will stop people from developing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS as indication yesterday emerged that Cornell Micheal Nelson, one of the scientists who ... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/nigeria-to-benefit-from-new-hivaids-vaccine/ | 646 | Health | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
SEOUL (AFP) – An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Maryam Mirzakhani, a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at Stanford University in California, was one of four winners announced by the International Congre... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/iranian-first-woman-win-nobel-prize-maths/ | 800 | Education | 2 | en | 0.999987 |
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in Guéckédou, in southeastern Guinea. Bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, Guéckédou is at the intersection of three nations, where the disease found an easy entry point to the... | http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/world/africa/tracing-ebolas-breakout-to-an-african-2-year-old.html?_r=0 | 413 | Health | 3 | en | 0.999975 |
Maturing is a characteristic cycle that everybody encounters, except specific propensities can either speed up or decelerate the indications of untimely maturing. While many individuals know about way of life decisions that assist with keeping up with energetic skin, for example, wearing sunscreen and eating a decent e... | https://vocal.media/lifehack/habits-that-do-not-prevent-premature-aging | 1,201 | Phones | 2 | en | 0.999949 |
Women need men. Society and culture has been telling us for the longest time. A fairly new concept is that women can be independent, but there seems to be conflicting views. The idea of dependence versus independence can cause internal conflict, according to Colette Dowling's book, ''The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hid... | http://www.empowher.com/mental-health/content/why-are-women-still-dependent-men?page=0 | 2,873 | Family | 2 | en | 0.999992 |
Grace and Sunday Otoide’s house is the last one standing on Bata Road in Benin City, southern Nigeria. All the neighbours have left and the retired couple hope to do the same.
With the money their two children send from Italy, they want to build a new house.
Dozens of lorries used to pass along the road to get to the l... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/edo-state-surviving-on-money-sent-from-europe/ | 1,120 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999947 |
A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus, and help in the fight against the disease.
China employs some of the world’s most sophisticated systems of electronic survei... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/china-firm-develops-system-to-recognize-faces-behind-coronavirus-masks/ | 442 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999994 |
By Efosa Taiwo
Famous phrases of Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
The two coaches are considered two of the greatest managers to have graced English football.
In the latest addition to the Oxford English Dictionary, Ferguson’s ‘squeaky bum time’ and Mourinho’s ‘park ... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/10/mourinho-ferguson-phrases-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary/ | 249 | Sports | 2 | en | 0.999979 |
By Prince Osuagwu
Nigeria recently kicked off a quest to replace the plastic identity cards it issued to citizens from 2013 with a digital identity.
Although the process of obtaining the identity is froth with several inconsistencies and has elicited criticisms, the digital identity is expected to save the country some... | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/12/how-nigeria-can-leverage-500bn-cloud-market-to-push-national-e-id-card/ | 1,127 | Politics | 2 | en | 0.999857 |
By Sebastine Obasi
Nigeria and other countries of the Sub-Sahara African region have the world’s worst access to electricity, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its latest report.
The report said that the sub-region has 13 percent of the world’s population, but 48 percent of the share of the global populatio... | http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/nigeria-others-have-worlds-worst-energy-access-report/ | 647 | Politics | 3 | en | 0.999981 |
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