Asset manager, bourse launch Nigeria Islamic index

 Islamic wealth manager Lotus Capital and Nigeria's bourse (NSE) on Monday launched a debut index of Nigerian Stock Exchange-listed companies that comply with centuries-old Islamic investment principles. The NSE Lotus Islamic index, which covers 15 equities with combined...

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India suffers massive power outage

 India failed for the fiMore than 300 million people were left without electricity early Monday when the power grid across northern rst time in a decade—a development said to have highlighted the country's inability to meet its people's growing energy needs. The power...

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Third Mainland Bridge repair may soon end

The Federal Ministry of Works, on Monday, said that if the weather and other factors remained friendly, the nightmare of Lagos residents following the closure of the bridge would soon end. Work on one of the eight faulty expansion joints of the Third Mainland Bridge was...

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Texting worsens grammar skills: Study shows

Text messaging gives young people a quick way to send notes to friends and family but could lead to declining language and grammar skills, U.S. researchers say. Researchers said they found children aged 8-12 who frequently use language adaptations, or techspeak, when they text...

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Seven Walmarts hit by bomb threats

At least seven Walmart stores in Missouri were evacuated after receiving bomb threats, authorities said. No explosives were found in any of the stores following the Friday evening scares, KCTV-TV reported. Two of the threats were in the suburban Kansas City communities of Gladstone...

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Chinese driver overloaded truck collapsed a bridge

A Chinese driver whose truck was so heavy the bridge he drove on collapsed has been sent the nearly £16m bill for the repair work. The driver, named by Chinese media only as Mr Zhang, was driving a truck filled with sand which was so overloaded that the concrete bridge collapsed...

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Smoking Orangutan Forced To quit Habit

At Indonesia's Taru Jurug Zoo, a popular orangutan named Tori is being forced to butt out her filthy addiction to cigarettes.So how exactly does a 15-year-old orangutan gain access to nicotine sticks, one might ask? From the visitors, of course. The Jakarta Globe reports...

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The 20-year odyssey of Eva Peron's body

                                               Three years after Eva Peron's death 60 years ago, her embalmed corpse disappeared, removed by the Argentinian...

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Mandela plot: South African convicted of treason

The mastermind of a white supremacist plot to kill Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, has been convicted of treason. A Pretoria court ruled that Boeremag group leader Mike du Toit was behind the nine bombings in Johannesburg's Soweto township in 2002. He...

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Motorists to pay tolls on 10-lane Lagos-Badagry expressway

A ride on the 10-lane Lagos-Badagry expressway will not be free as Lagos State government plans to erect two toll gates to generate money from motorists for the road maintenance.  Concerns of late have been growing over slow pace of work on the road which is undergoing...

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US seizes James Ibori’s mansion, $3m two bank accounts

Through an application to register and enforce two orders from United Kingdom courts, the Department of Justice has secured a restraining order against more than $3 million in corruption proceeds located in the United States related to James Onanefe Ibori, the former governor...

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Sacked Mainstreet Bank workers storm Government House

Some of the 800 recently sacked workers of Mainstreet Bank (former Afribank), on Tuesday stormed the Lagos State Government House in Ikeja, to protest what they called wrongful termination of their appointments. The placard-carrying protesters, numbering 200, demanded full...

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Student sues IG for loss of eye

The Inspector-General of Police M.D.Abubakar, Mukailu Gujuba, a policeman and three others have been sued for N100 million by student of  Osun State College of Education,  Mr. Adebayo Olaide. The suit which was filled at an Oyo State High Court, has been fixed for...

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Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 10 in Beijing

 The heaviest rain storm in six decades to hit the Chinese capital killed at least 10 people and caused widespread chaos, flooding streets and stranding 80,000 people at the city's main airport, state media reported on Sunday. The storm, which started on Saturday...

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Madonna puts gun to her head in on-stage stunt

The Material Girl keeps pulling out the props on stage. While Rome caught an eyeful of her backside, and Paris was treated to a nipple the other night, Madonna and her dancers flashed big shiny guns on stage in London's Hyde Park, during Monday's stop on her increasingly...

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Syria: Assad 'facing the end' after Damascus bomb attacks

Syria’s opposition proclaimed “the beginning of the end” for Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Wednesday night after a bomb attack in the heart of Damascus killed three of the president’s closest lieutenants, including his powerful brother-in-law. Striking the very core...

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ABOMINATION: 2 Top Nollywood Actresses In Lesbianism Act Revealed

In 2011, the Senate passed an anti gay bill kicking against same s*x marriage. The bill called for a 14-year sentence for anyone convicted of homos*xuality. The bill also stipulated a 10-year imprisonment for anyone who aids or "abets" same-s*x unions.  For these two top...

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Think you’re pregnant but still having your period?

Bleeding in early pregnancy is a common occurrence, but this does not signal a true menstrual cycle. Experts say that women who say they had a period while pregnant either have a different definition of “period”, or honestly think any vaginal bleeding can be termed as “menstruation”  Everyone...

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