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  A world champion typist has set a new speed record – with his nose. Mohammed Khurshid Hussain, 23, wrote a 103-character sentence in just 47 seconds after practicing his technique for six hours a day, the International Business Times reported. If confirmed it will smash the previous time of a minute and 33 seconds, […]

It is often said that music is a universal language. However, a new report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on March 6 finds that music doesn’t speak to everyone. There are people who are perfectly able to experience pleasure in other ways who simply don’t get music in the way the rest of

Pedro Anegbe, a 42-year-old man has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court for raping his 15-year-old daughter. The defendant who committed the crime at their home on Ifelodun Street, Fatolu Ipaja, Lagos State was arraigned on two counts for raping his daughter. According to the father of three who confessed to the court

A 400-level Law student of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Ige Dipo, has committed suicide at his residence outside the campus of the university few days after his lover broke up with him. It was authoritatively gathered that Dipo, said to be above average academically by his colleagues, was found dead in his apartment at

A member of the Boko Haram sect has said that they are against Western education because it challenges the supremacy of Allah and most aspects of Geography, Biology and Sociology contradict the divine order which sees God as the source of all being. While being paraded at the headquarters of the Department of State Service,

Despite the Federal Government’s plea to chairmen of Governing Councils of Federal polytechnics to prevail on striking polytechnic staff to accept government’s offer to pay the outstanding CONTISS 15 arrears in two instalments for the immediate resolution of the ongoing strike, students in the over 20 federal polytechnics and several other state polytechnics would have

A primary school teacher has been suspended for Sellotaping over the mouths of her 10-year-old pupils after they refused to stop giggling and talking. Priscila Davo Ortega, 27, allegedly lined up more than 20 children during her art lesson and put layers of sticky tape across their lips because they were being too noisy. Parents

Bill Gates has returned to the top of Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s richest people, as rising stock markets swelled the ranks of billionaires, which included a record number of women. With a net worth of $76 billion, the Microsoft Corp co-founder reclaimed the top spot after a four-year hiatus, toppling Mexico’s telecommunications

The Northern States Governors’ Forum has resolved to abolish payment of fees in secondary schools in the region in a bid to boost enrolment of students. Its Chairman, Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger, made this known in Minna on Monday at the National Association of Nigerian Students’ (NANS) award ceremony to distinguished Nigerians. The forum