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[ad_1] People across the globe celebrated the turn of the new year Sunday night and into Monday morning as they watched the ball drop and kissed loved ones under confetti that showered onto city streets marking the start of 2024. In New York City’s Times Square, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” was heard from […]

[ad_1] Gunmen suspected to be terrorists have reportedly invaded Shere village in the Jos East Local Government Area of the Plateau State. The attack which was reportedly going on as of Sunday morning came barely one week after similar attacks by jihadists. The jihadists attacked up to 15 communities, killed about 200 people and burnt […]

[ad_1] A vibrating pill has shown promise in early studies as a possible obesity treatment. Developed by engineers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the capsule is intended to be swallowed prior to eating in order to “trick” the brain into thinking the body is full — thereby reducing the amount of calories consumed. The […]

[ad_1] U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, one of the most prominent Democrats from the Dallas area, died on Sunday at the age of 88.  The Dallas Morning News also confirmed her death with an unnamed source close to the family. No cause of death was given. Johnson was born in Waco and grew up in […]

[ad_1] Iran-backed Houthi rebels operating in Yemen are showing no signs of scaling back attacks on commercial ships traversing the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said.  Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East, told The Associated Press that these attacks have continued despite the formation of an […]

[ad_1] Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq over alleged fraud. Umar-Farouq, who was appointed Minister by former President Muhammadu Buhari is currently under probe over the N37,170,855,753.44 reportedly laundered under her watch through a contractor, James Okwete. […]

[ad_1] The duration and quality of sleep are both essential to overall health, experts agree — but when does a focus on getting a good night’s sleep turn into a harmful fixation? For some people, checking the data on their wearable sleep trackers can lead to a condition called “orthosomnia,” a name the Journal of […]

[ad_1] An undergraduate member of Harvard’s Honor Council believes university president Claudine Gay is “getting off easy” from her recent plagiarism allegations. The student, who remained anonymous, wrote an op-ed published in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper on Sunday. Gay is facing widespread accusations of antisemitism and plagiarism, but the university’s board has declared it […]

[ad_1] A German cardinal in the Catholic Church remarked that Pope Benedict would never have approved Pope Francis’ recent edict allowing priests to bless people in same-sex relationships. Cardinal Gerhard Mueller made the comment to Reuters while attending an event marking the one-year anniversary of Pope Benedict’s death on Sunday.  “It never would have happened […]

[ad_1] President Bola Tinubu has sought Senate approval to convert N7.3trillion balance of ways and means of revenue in Nigeria’s Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) into federal assets. The president’s request is strikingly against the recommendation of his special investigator on the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, who had said the balance was dubiously and […]