Articles from the ‘Other Stories’ category
Posted by Contributor on November 2, 2010 at 2:52 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Article By: Lucy Hunt Apparently there are three types of homosexuals. This is the key learning taught to me over a long and protracted road trip with my BGF (best gay friend) across the Karoo over the last week. I don’t know much about gayness. I consider myself to be a very straight female, who [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 29, 2010 at 6:58 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
In line with the provision of the Islamic legal code, the Vice Chancellor of the Niger State government-owned Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Professor Ibrahim Adamu Kolo, has outlawed hugging of female students in the university. Kolo said that anyone caught “embracing or hugging” any female students would be severely dealt with. The vice chancellor [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 28, 2010 at 9:41 am in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
A new study suggests that a decline in religious participation, and an increase in shopping opportunities, could be making us miserable. By Emily Main, Rodale.com Can money buy happiness? No, and neither can spending money, suggest researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Their as-yet-unpublished study took a look at consumer shopping habits over the last [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 21, 2010 at 2:42 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
by Kiplinger staff Wish you were as wealthy as this guy? Credit: Associated Press He’s Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, and his super-geek-to-billionaire story is the basis of the hit movie The Social Network. “Young people are just smarter,” he told a Stanford University audience in 2007. He started Facebook from his Harvard dorm in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 6, 2010 at 9:53 am in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories, Other Top Stories
It’s definitely not easy to predict how your girlfriend’s going to interpret your behavior. Most misunderstandings and arguments arise because one of you has grabbed the wrong end of the stick. If you’ve reacted melodramatically or done something that she has misunderstood, it’s not up to you to change. You can’t always help what she [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 5, 2010 at 2:38 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Posted by Amelia Mularz “A kiss saves the day!”Antennas or caskets? That was the choice this week on The Amazing Race when the teams headed to Accra, Ghana. While they didn’t get to “hold little African babies,” like Mallory (the beauty queen) hoped, they did get a lesson in customer service. We watched them sell, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 22, 2010 at 4:22 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Why Pregnancy Test why not Virginity Test ? What do you think ? And what about the Men how do you test them if they are virgins ? I attend the”Largest Church in Nigeria ” (name witheld) here in lagos. I was surprised when I heard on friday that my friend’s wedding has been canceled [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 9, 2010 at 1:33 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Facebook clocked half a billion users this past month. I know almost everyone reading this, if not all, has an account on Facebook. Today’s debate Tuesday is about connecting with exes on Facebook. I joined Facebook several years ago as a Masters student but only recently started actively using it after publishing A Heart to [...]
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