GIST ME JOOR

For history buffs, the fact that an aspiring artist named Adolf Hitler was, as a young man, rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts is a stark reminder of the tantalizing contingency of historical events. A nascent megalomaniac may wear many hats before donning the service...

As we begin the countdown to the election, I urge us to ponder upon the admonitions of the US President Barack Obama on how we should conduct ourselves during and after the elections. Those who have ears should hear. Obama Address To Nigerians re-echoed the civil war maxim: To keep Nigerian One is a task which must be accomplish...

Last Valentine’s Day, Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after firing four times through a locked bathroom door in the middle of the night. He thought Steenkamp was still in bed next to him. He thought she was an intruder, he said, offering up the flimsiest of defences...

First of all, it’s not in your head. Mosquitoes really doprefer some people to others, says Dr. Jonathan Day, a medical entomologist and mosquito expert at the University of Florida. And that time your grandmother told you your skin was just sweeter? There’s some truth to that,...

There is no gainsaying the fact that joblessness or call it unemployment is usually the nightmare of most graduates across the globe. In a bid to disentangle oneself from the biting grips of this ugly situation, most jobless folks have adopted different approaches from the conventional...

A British soldier who spotted a boy with a terrible deformity while on patrol in Bosnia has spent ten years fundraising to finally deliver his promise of giving him - a new FACE. Staff Sergeant Wayne Ingram, 44, met four-year-old Stefan Savic a decade ago while on peacekeeping duties...

No Kidding! Baby Goat Has Eight Legs A goat born in Croatia this week had one befuddled farmer questioning his own eyes when he counted eight legs on the kid. Nicknamed "octogoat," the baby also had both male and female reproductive organs, leading local vets to believe that the...