December 16, 2013

  A 20-year-old boy, Nuru Lateef, was Monday remanded in prison by an Abule-Egba Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for pleading guilty to stealing a BlackBerry phone valued at N62,000. The magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, remanded the accused in prison custody following his plea of being guilty to stealing a Blackberry smart phone. Elias adjourned the […]

Victorious UAE U-17 World Cup, Golden Eaglets revelation, Kelechi Iheanacho, has left the Super Eagles camp for a trip to England for contract talks with EPL side Manchester City. Head Coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi was quoted by team’s spokesman Ben Alaiya, as saying that he had to sanction the departure of the player after his

  A bomb scare on Monday forced Harvard University to evacuate four buildings, call in police and cancel final exams under way at the elite US University in the north-eastern town of Cambridge. An alert on its website announced the evacuations at the Science Centre, the Thayer dormitory, the Sever classroom and lecture hall and

  Not being attractive as a teenager may have consequences far more reaching than a bruised ego and scribing the occasional bad poem. A new study suggests that a pretty face can be a source of lifelong advantage – beginning at secondary school – according to a report. The report, ‘In School, Good Looks Help

Mince pies, pudding and brandy butter, chocolates, – Christmas truly is the season of sugar. And sugar does more than rot your teeth: in recent months many experts have argued that it’s sugar, not fat, that’s to blame for our obesity epidemic. Yet sugar is not just full of calories. Some scientists are claiming that,

As if motherhood wasn’t stressful enough, a competition has been launched in China to find the ‘hottest mum.’ Dozens of photos of potential winners were sent into Weibo after the search started. But some of the mothers look so similar to their daughters it is difficult to tell them apart and instead they look like

  The harmattan is gradually setting in and very soon its effect will start showing on our body. Its numerous adverse effects include, but not limited to, dryness of skin, accompanied by cracking of the lips and sole of the feet and hair breaking. In all of these, people with dry skin are the ones

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU), Dr. Nasir Fagge, told Saharareporters about the decision to suspend 5-month industrial action. The ASUU leader also held a press conference in Minna, after the marathon National Executive Council meeting was over at about 12.50 a.m. on December 17, 2013, Tuesday. In attendance at the