Category: Lifestyle
Microsoft ends Windows 7 support: What should you do?
Cyber-security experts are urging Windows 7 users to upgrade their operating system. Microsoft is going to stop supporting Windows 7 so that it caRead More…
Cheetah smuggling out of Ethiopia ‘fuelled by exotic pets demand’
A growing demand for exotic pets in Saudi Arabia and the UAE is fuelling the smuggling of cheetahs in Ethiopia, a top Ethiopian wildlife official hasRead More…
5 Ways Alcohol Is Affecting Your Body
There are several ways heavy drinking is affecting your body. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), heavy driRead More…
Turkey’s Wikipedia ban ends after almost three years
Turkey is restoring access to Wikipedia after a ban that lasted almost three years. The country’s Constitutional Court ruled that the ban violatedRead More…
Microsoft makes ‘carbon negative’ pledge
Microsoft has pledged to remove “all of the carbon” from the environment that it has emitted since the company was founded in 1975. Chief executivRead More…
China’s economic growth hits 30-year low
China’s economy grew last year at the slowest pace in almost three decades. Official figures show that the world’s second largest economy expandedRead More…
Spanish billionaire guilty of trying to smuggle a Picasso
A Spanish billionaire art collector has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $58m (£44m) for trying to smuggle a Picasso abroad to sell at Read More…
‘First Middle-earth scholar’ Christopher Tolkien dies
Christopher Tolkien, who edited and published the posthumous works of his father, Lord of the Rings writer JRR Tolkien, has died aged 95. The newsRead More…
World’s biggest uncut diamond sold to Louis Vuitton
A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana in April has been sold to French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton for an undisclosed sum. The 1,758-carat Read More…
WAEC blacklists 165 schools in Kwara, fines each N250,000
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has threatened heavy sanctions against school heads or officials caught aiding and abetting examinaRead More…