Derek Skipper, 92 years old, from Orwell in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, sat for the General Certificate of Secondary Education, GCSE, examination in Mathematics and passed. He scored Grade 5, the highest grade available on the foundation paper he took. He Read More …
A young Nigerian woman, Prosper Oluwafunmibi Babalola, is breaking records locally, for languages by speaking 21 languages fluently. She speaks German, Spanish, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Twi, Zulu, Russian, Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, French, Latin, Italian, English, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, among Read More …
Did the Universe evolve or was created? The opening sentence in the Bible – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” – pre-supposes the existence of an all-powerful and awesome God. If we believe this as true Read More …
The General Debate in the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, from 21 September, 2021 to 30 September, 2021 with the theme: “Building resilience through hope to recover from Covid-19, rebuild sustainably, respond to the needs of Read More …
President Joe Biden, on 25 October, 2021 signed a proclamation requiring inbound travelers to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination as well as a pre-departure negative coronavirus test taken within three days of travel before boarding an airplane to US. Read More …
The International Swimming Federation, FINA, in its Extraordinary Congress on 19 June, 2022 voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women’s elite competitions if they have not completed their transition by the age of 12 years. TRANSGENDER WOMEN IN Read More …
As of May 12, 2022 the United States officially recorded one million confirmed deaths from Covid-19. This is the world’s highest reported death toll from the disease. President Biden marked the milestone of one million US deaths to the coronavirus pandemic with one million Read More …
Did world famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking (8 January, 1942 – 14 March, 2018) change his view on time? Thomas Hertog, cosmologist in KU Leuven University, Belgium, said he did. Hertog worked with Hawking since 2002 till his death in Read More …
Professor Bosede Afolabi, FRCOG, FWACS, has won the Bill and Melinda Gates grant of $2,518,474 (N880,465,900). The grant is to support her work on sickle cell pregnancy and maternal and foetal health. Bosede Afolabi is a Professor of Obstetrics and Read More …
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first cellphone call in New York using a brick-sized device he developed. That was on Sixth Avenue in New York while walking between 53rd and 54th streets with a handset Read More …
