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The fear of bad luck really can be reversed by carrying out rituals like touching wood and throwing salt, according to a new study. Touching wood is the most common superstition in Western culture used to reverse bad fortune or undo a ‘jinx’, while other cultures maintain similar practices, like spitting or throwing salt, after

With millions of people across the world living in urban slums and an ongoing food shortage in poor countries, students from Montreal have come up with a novel and sustainable food source – flour made from insects. Dubbed Flour Power, the team from McGill University plan to farm grasshoppers in poor areas of countries including

  Federal Government, yesterday, appealed to Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to shelve its proposed solidarity strike with Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, made the appeal in Abuja, at a meeting with the members of NUT on the proposed industrial action. It will be recalled that

The Osun State government yesterday inaugurated the Salvation Army Middle School in Osogbo, the state capital. The school is one of the 100 elementary, 50 middle and 20 high schools being built under the O’School initiative. Governor Rauf Aregbesola said the inauguration was a reaffirmation that Osun’s education policy is headed for success. According to

Baba Umar, the Chairman of Kano state task force, revealed on Wednesday the shutting of 69 private schools due to their inability to meet the educational standards and functioning under bad conditions. “The 69 illegal schools were also operating under disturbing conditions and this is against the laws governing the establishment of schools in the

The Special Adviser to the President on Nigeria Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Committee, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has directed the withdrawal of six students under sponsorship of the Amnesty Programme over a violent attack on the Nigerian Mission in Russia on Monday. Kuku took the decision to withdraw the scholarship of the affected students after

For those unfamiliar with Jack Andraka, you should know one thing: He’s kind of a big deal. You may know him as the whiz kid who developed an early detection pancreatic cancer test, but before the 15-year-old became a superstar in the science community, he faced some bumps in the road. In an awesome two-minute

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has said it will go on a solidarity strike with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), if the Federal Government does not comply with the agreement it signed with the lecturers’ union. NUPENG accused the government of being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians.

A mother has said she is pulling her teenage son out of the Al-Madinah Muslim free school (USA) after claiming he was forced to cover his head and banned from looking at female students. Jacqueline Crossley, 53, has said her son, who she does not want to be identified, was the only non-religious pupil at