To be an astronaut who will live and work for six months on board the International Space Station, you will have to make the grade, after you must have gone through a gruelling selection process and coped with […]

In an incredible BBCiWonder series, you are taken on a timeline of the various actions that came together to form you.
How one out of 250 million of your father’s sperm cells got the treasured prize – your […]

What if I told you that January was not always the first month of the year? That the ancient Romans used a different calendar system and their year began in March and ended in December? That traditionally, the […]

If you are wondering what it is about that guy that makes him the toast of girls, yet you are struggling to even have someone say hello, you are in luck. There are several concrete, easy things you can do right […]

It would be great if we only dealt with people we got along with easily, but in reality it doesn’t work that way. Many of the folks we encounter on a daily basis are probably ones we don’t really care for, and the […]

With the addition of four new elements to the periodic table, hence completing the seventh row, a big decision now lies ahead – elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 need to be given their official names and […]

At times you may want to talk about general stressful things that are going on in your life, especially with someone outside your family. Talking to a counsellor would have been just nice, only that some schools  […]

It’s a new year, and this means that for those sitting the UTME this year, the day is fast getting closer. Before the examination day arrives, you will have gone through most, if not all of the prescribed […]

You must have it heard said that laughing and it’s first cousin, smiling require very little facial muscles to form, and that when laughter is genuine, it has the power to break down barriers.
Genuine laughter is […]

You know that feeling when you start humming (or even singing along!) to that song you hate so much? And what takes the cake in all this is that you did not consciously learn it: perhaps, you heard it played on […]

The ancient Babylonians are said to have been the first people to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also the first to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the new year—though for the […]

There has been much talk about climate change – greenhouse gases, rising sea levels, adverse weather conditions, melting ice caps. But beyond the obvious and much talked about, what are the details and statistics […]

Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, finally completing the table’s seventh row and rendering science textbooks around the world instantly out of date.

Elements 113, 115, 117 and 1 […]

A popular quote by Edna Buchanan says:

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

And unlike the family we are born into, the choice of which we had no say; we get to choose our family of friends. […]