Author: Karleen Pinheiro

Mr Gbenga Edema, a governorship hopeful of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, has urged the state governor to address the accusation of certificate forgery against him. Edema, in a statement by the Gbenga Edema Campaign Organisation’s spokesman, on Sunday, said a police report has indicted Governor Aiyedatiwa of forging a West Africa […]

Cubs trade talk here in March? Why not? If the enthusiasm around Chris Morel as the new third baseman wanes, JD Davis could be an option.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency's operatives caught a 40-year-old businessman, Ejike Chibuke Solomon, with 1.45 kilograms of cocaine hidden in his luggage as he tried to board an Ethiopia Airlines flight 950 to Vietnam via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Ejike was arrested at […]

Air operations conducted by personnel of the Nigerian Air Force have led to the destruction of four unauthorized oil processing sites in Rivers State. While the unauthorized oil processing sites located at Krakama and Temakiri in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers were said to be active, the sites located at Abisse and Omoma […]

A yet-to-be-identified man has been killed in a suspected hit-and-run accident that occurred at the Mile 2 area of Lagos State. The incident happened on Friday night at about 9:30 pm along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway by the Ballet bus stop opposite Pinnacle Filling Station. An eyewitness, identified as Olusegun told our correspondent that the deceased …

This is the great paradox: that human life, lived between the time of starlings and the time of stars, gains significance solely within oneself, yet the self is a creation of the mind, a concept that helps make the disorder and shortness of life bearable. Occasionally, if you are fortunate, something — an experience with nature, a piece of art, a profound love — ignites what Iris Murdoch so beautifully called “an occasion for unselfing,” breaking down the castle of deception and uniting you with everything that ever existed or will exist. Because time… read article

In more ways than one, the tingles seem to be fading. Just a few years ago, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), a puzzling and blissful sensation, became the sudden focal point for a sizable Internet community. Practitioners liken it to a current of electricity running down the scalp and spine. Audiences marveled at online videos, […]

Engineering education.

In his first lecture on physics to freshmen and sophomores at the California Institute of Technology, in 1961-62, Richard Feynman said: If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest […]

There is a church in Argentina called Iglesia Maradona. In this church, God is football—soccer—and its prophet is the renowned player Diego Armando Maradona. Founded in 1998, the year after the star’s retirement, the Church of Iglesia Maradona now has some 120,000 members worldwide, who bear its insignia D10S—a portmanteau of Dios, the Spanish word […]