November 7, 2013

  Laraine Cook, a former girls’ basketball coach at Pocatello High School in Idaho, was fired from her job in October over a Facebook photo in which her fiance, Tom Harrison, holds her breast. “I don’t feel that it’s an immoral photo, and that’s what the termination is based on,” Cook said. The photo shows […]

  Nollywood actors and actresses are really getting it the way they want it with TB joshua’s ministry as apart from now he has delivered the likes of the late Enebeli Elebuwa , Camilla Mgberekpe, Jim Iyke etc; and now its actress Nneoma Ukpabi. Mrs Nneoma Ukpabi is a Nollywood actress who had the problem

  The Group Managing Director of Cool FM, Mr. Amin Moussalli, has urged Nigerian tertiary institutions to expose their students to practical aspects of their chosen courses. Moussalli said such initiative would not only make the students have deeper understanding of their disciplines, it would also prepare them to make useful impact if they decided

  Finalists in this year’s edition of the MTN Football  Scholar Scheme have said that the role of education in sports development can no longer be taken for granted. They said this on Saturday at Airforce Secondary School, Ikeja, Lagos where they sat for their final Scholastic Aptitude Test examination to qualify them for admission

  The 37th General Assembly of the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, kicked off in Paris on Tuesday with Nigeria’s Supervising Minister of Education Ezenwo Nyesom Wike elected as one of the General Assembly’s vice presidents. China’s education minister Hao Ping was elected the president of the General Assembly. Wike led Nigeria’s

The Education Ministry and the US Agency for International Development have proposed a new programme The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) to promote reading habit in school-age children. EGRA is designed to understand the best foundation skills to be used in early-grade literacy programmes, said Bridget Okpa, director for policy, planning, management and research at

Many teens, especially boys, feel pressure to have sex before they are fully grown. According to research released this week, some 63 percent of teens believe that waiting to have sex is a good idea, but few people actually do. One in three boys ages 15-17 say they feel pressure to have sex, often from

It will come as a relief to those who failed to shine when taking an IQ test. After conducting the largest ever study of intelligence, researchers have found that far from indicating how clever you are, IQ testing is actually rather ‘meaningless’. In a bid to investigate the value of IQ, scientists asked more than