Nigerian offline library opens access to all

An ambitious offline project plans to give millions of students in the developing world access to online resources.

More than 110 million people in Nigeria are still not connected to the internet largely because of poor infrastructure and a lack of fiber and mobile networks make it expensive and unreliable.

Healing With Herbs

For centuries now, traditional Chinese healers have been using herbal remedies and herbal therapy to cure a host of health problems. There has been a resurgence in the use of these herbal treatments in general, and of a herbal plant called the thunder god vine (lei gong teng) in particular. This plant is used to cure many health issues, including rheumatoid arthritis. A new report has been recently published in the Nature Chemical Biology journal, which is written by scientists from the Johns — and they think they now know how it works. Thunder god vine (lei gong teng) contains compounds that help control the "machinery" of genes on the cellular level.

Depression – Symptoms & Types

Depression is believed to be the number one cause of disability in the world. In the United States alone, more than 17% of the population will experience varying degrees of depression at some point in their lives.

How to Develop Your Interests

Are you doing what you love to do with your life, or do you have wishes and fantasies about what you would have done or become if things were different, because things are not different - things are just life. Reality is where and how you live right now. You can't escape that, albeit watching others live their lives on TV, reading to disappear or drowning in various vices. You can do something about your passions right now in your reality however, if you want to.

You don't have to tell anyone what you'd like to do. If you're human, you've probably already confessed about your dreams once or twice, and the responses sent your passions packing deep down in the basement of your heart where they now lie dormant - cold and neatly folded.

It's Time to Make Smart Sexy Again

My friend and mentor Quincy Jones says it takes 20 years to change a culture.

Well, in the last 20 years we have made dumb sexy.  We have dumbed down and celebrated it. And we need to make smart sexy again.

A few years ago a prominent company — Diesel Jeans — launched an extremely successful new advertising campaign called Be Stupid.  And I mean it was extremely successful.  

And even though the company had a Manhattan flagship location with BE STUPID permanently installed on both sides of the store, no one said a word.

‘Call Your Wife to Order’ – Group Warns Ex-President Jonathan

A group, Concerned Bayelsa Elders, has warned former President Goodluck Jonathan to call his wife, Patience, to order or risk political crisis in Bayelsa State.

Ebola Volunteers Return With Sad Tales Of Maltreatment By AU Officials, Nigerian Govt.

Nigerians who volunteered to help fight the deadly Ebola disease in Sierra Leone and Liberia, returned home a fortnight ago, after spending about six months on the frontline against a virus that ravaged several countries last year, killing over 20,000.