June 2022
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A top Texas law enforcement official said that there were enough armed police officers wearing body armor to stop the late May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas three minutes after it began. But instead, it took about an hour and 14 minutes from when officers arrived at the school towhen they breached…
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Balance test could be included in routine health checks for older adults, say an international team of researchers, led by the Clinimex exercise medicine clinic in Rio de Janeiro and including the Bristol Medical School. The inability to stand on one leg for 10 seconds in mid to later life is linked to a near…
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The head of the Kremlin’s security council has threatened the “population of Lithuania” in an escalation of the row over Lithuanian railway’s refusal to allow some goods to cross to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. After a meeting in the region, which is wedged between Lithuania and Poland, 800 miles from Moscow, Nikolai Patrushev, a…
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Hello and welcome to the Get a Grip prize, which I just invented. The GAG award is given on an ad hoc basis to a country doing a standout job of humiliating itself on the global stage by fixating on something ridiculous while the world burns. The award honours those who seem to have lost…
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It may ask you to spot all the traffic lights in a picture, or type out some wobbly looking letters and numbers. If you get it wrong, it may ask you to start again, leading you to wonder if you really know what a traffic light looks like – or if you might be a…
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A man has been arrested after a woman and her five-year-old daughter were stabbed to death in north London on Tuesday. The woman, believed to be 37, and her child were found with stab wounds at a property in Brookside South, Barnet at 1.37pm. Metropolitan police officers, paramedics and the London air ambulance attended but…
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A youth is any person between the age of 15 years and 30 years regardless of the gender. Unfortunately, the youth are the backbone of a society and hence they determine the future of any given society. This is because all other age groups, the kids, teenagers, middle aged and the senior citizens rely on…
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See Sanusi describing the 3 leading presidential candidates One peculiar thing about the top three guys battling it out for the 001 seat, is that neither of them is there for the money. One has milked Nigeria well enough systematically, and just wants to answer President by all means. He lives in Dubai full-time and…
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Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo , the Anambra state governor, announced today that the 20 million dollar Peter Obi invested on behalf of Anambra State in Sabmiller Group is now worth 100 million dollar as at today Recall that this investment is under 10 years and Anambra State owns the highest share in the global company.…
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Neha Ghosh cried tears of joy after a positive pregnancy test in 2020. The business development associate was about to become a mother for the first time at the age of 30. But two years later, she says her experience of motherhood was very different from its portrayal in popular culture and society. After giving…
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As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth month, British troops must prepare “to fight in Europe once again”, the new head of the Army has said. In a letter to his charges earlier in the week, Gen Sir Patrick Sanders outlined the challenges facing the military in the wake of the Russian invasion, stressing the “imperative” to build…
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Every person on this planet is afraid of something, no matter how emotionally, physically, mentally or psychologically balanced we seem to be. Most fears are inherited, some inculcated, while some are identified from close observation within our environment as well. We as humans at one point in our lives, are bound down to an extent…
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As the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State is about rounding up, an election monitoring group under the auspices of Yiaga Africa has revealed some preliminary reports concerning the keenly contested poll. In its findings undertaken by over 300 adhoc staff deplored to monitor the exercise on Saturday witnessed Vote buying in Alowodolu/Ojo – The Apostolic…
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Mr. Paul James, an Election observer in Ekiti State, from YIAGA, has insisted that people sold their votes during Saturday’s governorship election for as low as N500. James told the BBC Hausa Service on Saturday that from March 2022 till date, money and other items were given to people during political occasions. According to him,…
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The comment by Catholic priest, Rev. father Ejike Mbaka describing Presidential candidate Peter Obi as a stingy man has continued to stir reactions. Mbaka had during his latest ministration at the Adoration ministry in Enugu State stated that unless Obi seeks God’s forgiveness he cannot be Nigeria’s president According to him, it’s better to have…
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