Are you Prepared For Sunday’s Solar Eclipse?

As people all over the world prepare with great excitement for the solar eclipse, which will occur this Sunday, November 3, 2013, it is necessary to alert our people of the significance of the cosmic event and prepare them on how to safely observe it.

This very event is a solar eclipse, otherwise known as eclipse of the sun, which occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth thus casting the moon’s shadow either partially or wholly on the surface of the sun. It is essentially a natural phenomenon already demystified by science, even though religious and traditional believers often attribute supernatural significance to it.

UNN graduate wins Gulder Ultimate Search, gets N10m

Okike

Twenty-year old graduate of Electronics Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Daniel Okike, has emerged winner of the 10th edition of the Gulder Ultimate Reality Show.

With the victory, the Abia State native has won N10m and a brand new Mitsubishi Pajero.

The guy that had initially said he intended to establish a successful international import and export business outsmarted Edmund Umeabuani and Ifunanya Onike in the waters of the Usaka River, where the battle for the ultimate symbol held.

Wizkid is not a threat – Davido

    Davido

Davido is one artiste who sure knows how to blow his own trumpet. But, who won’t, when one has certain things going on well for oneself or when ‘the lines have fallen unto pleasant places’ as the Psalmist says. A rich father, a successful career which is barely three years old, a multi-million naira endorsement deal, sold-out concerts, a string of hits, a personal home, an enviable fleet of cars and a growing fan base – Davido boast all at the moment.

At 20, he has no doubt garnered what has taken many artistes years to achieve, that is, if God and mother-luck shines generously on them.

Dangers of using sleeping pills

It’s the middle of the night and you are staring at the bedroom ceiling, thinking about work, expenses, or the kids. Sleep just won’t come. Before you reach for that sleeping pill, you may want to think again. Do you know that relying on them may put your life at risk?

Sleeping pills help us to have a decent night sleep, especially when we cannot seem to do it on our own. But a new research by scientists in Pennsylvania, USA, has revealed that these pills doing more than knocking you out.

The study, which involved over 10,000 patients who took sleeping pills and 20,000 matched patients who did not, shows that users are four times likely to die from it than non-users.

According to the lead scientist, Dr. Daniel Kripke, patients who took sleeping pills died 4.6 times as often during follow-ups averaging 2.5 years.