Today’s date 06/06/06 (June 06, 2006) coincides with the alleged number of the devil, and so, whilst some partied the so-called Devil’s Day away, others stayed indoors. The internet became a platform for discussion on the issue around the world. 666, a number religiously and perhaps historically associated with Satan, was today celebrated by Satanists and [...]

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 He is faced with an escalating crisis over allegations that US marines have executed Iraqi civilians, and a more volatile insurgency in Iraq. And there is deepening concern among the Republican Party’s “fiscal hawks” that neither President George Bush nor the Republican-controlled Congress is prepared to tackle record spending which, with Bush’s tax cuts, has [...]

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 Research published Monday offers some of the first strong evidence-based advice on what approach is best at getting a baby to sleep through the night. What some baby experts offer up in opinion and theory, psychologist Ian St. James-Roberts has put to the test. In his latest research, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, he [...]

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U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. Privately, they say, they’d be surprised if it didn’t come by the end of the year. The first of the domestic incidents, all of which [...]

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In the last episode of the fired blogger, I made mention of how I met one of the officials working in the SIWES department and what he said about getting a letter from the ofiice I got fired from. Well, I hope you are staying blogged to this blogsite and this series. Today, I was [...]

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New York City! NYC! Whoops. Do you know that it’s dubbed “the city that never sleeps”. I guess that is because 24/7, the streets of New york are busy, busy, busy.  Let me back up a bit. New York  City is located in the state of New York in the United States of  America. Located on the east coast [...]

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There’s an inherent danger in taking long airplane flights – and it has nothing to do with the food. For more than half a century, long distance air travel has been figured to increase the risk of blood clots in the legs. If the clot forms in your leg and passes into your blood stream, [...]

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What we eat and drink can affect our skin. Your skin is the first thing people see when they look at you. Strangely enough, the skin is the largest organ in the body. It serves many purposes among which the major ones are, namely, to act as a defense against germs and diseases and, converting sunlight to [...]

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Postgraduate medical eduation in Nigeria appears to be on the decline. The view was expressed by Prof. Akin Agboola, a member of the Editorial board in the January 2006 issue of ‘The Practising Doctor’. Postgraduate medical education was inaugurated in this country about 33years ago. The onerous task was first pioneered by the Nigerian Medical [...]

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   “Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunder shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave.”   This is an excerpt from a famous poem written by a famous American writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes. ‘Old Ironsides’ is the title of the poem and it actually saved a [...]

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The U.S. government is worried that women will be forced to become prostitutes and sell themselves at the month-long World Cup event in Germany.As a result, Washington asked Germany on Monday to step up its plans to stop sex workers from crossing into the country to take advantage of the popular games. Prostitution is legal [...]

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I went to the bank yesterday to withdraw N3000. After collecting the money, I was told by the cashier that I had a balance of N60,000. At first, I smiled a knowing smile: knowing fully well that I didn’t  have such an amount in my account. But after the cashier checked again, it was still the same. I wondered who must have made [...]

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1664 – War broke out between England and Holland in the colonies and at sea. 1716 – 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana 1850 – Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans 1882 – Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City 1944 – D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allies to liberate Western Europe [...]

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