Society Gists

One of the individuals behind the Ice Bucket Challenge to support Lou Gehrig’s disease research has died in a diving accident. Corey Griffin, 27, helped popularize the worldwide trend in which people either pledge $100 to ALS research or record

The deadly Boko Haram sect may have forcefully conscripted 100 persons in Doron Baga, a village in Borno State. It was gathered that about 100 persons were abducted during a Sunday attack on the village where over 10 persons were killed.

The twitter social media site went agog yesterday following a tweet from an Australian, one Andrew Sayer, who claimed he sent $10,000 to a Nigerian suffering from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Simply identifying the Nigerian as Oghenekohwo, a self-acclaimed

The Liberian Government was aware that Patrick Sawyer, its citizen who brought the Ebola virus into Nigeria, had possibly contracted the virus from his late sister, yet cleared him to travel to Nigeria for a conference organised by the Economic

Every rapper competing on the swag playing field can just pack it up and go home, because this Indian businessman just murdered the game. Pankaj Parakh just turned 45, and to celebrate, the living-deity made the most legendary custom cop of all-time:

A Chinese man who chopped up his parents and kept their heads in a fridge has said it was their own fault for not treating him properly. Chau Hoi-leung, 30, had been raised by his loving parents who gave him

A former government minister in Sierra Leone said on Tuesday that he has lost nine members of his family to the Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa. Lansana Nyallah told state television the dead included his brothers and sisters in

The ex wife of the late South African first black President and Human Rights Activist Nelson Mandela is demanding his village home for her children. This triggers the first legal battle dispute since Mandela’s death. BBC reports that Winnie Madikiela-Mandela‘s lawyers say she is

Saudi Arabia is testing a man for suspected Ebola infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It said the man, a Saudi in his 40s, was at a hospital

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, says this was according to the latest Webometric ranking of world universities. Unilorin is also ranked 1,842nd in the world in the 2014 University Web Ranking, which was conducted by