Tuesday 30 July 2013

Girl Kicked Out Of Camp Over Kiss: Lawsuit


The parents of a 15-year-old Connecticut girl sued a summer camp in Massachusetts on Monday, saying their daughter was kicked out of camp last month after a boy kissed her.

Boko Haram Weekend Killing Spree Leaves At Least 40 Dead In Borno Villages

MEDICAL PERSONNEL OF THE MULTINATIONAL JOINT TASK FORCE (MNJTF) TREATING CIVILIANS INJURED BY BOKO HARAM IN DAWASHI VILLAGE, KUKAWA LGA OF BORNO STATE
MEDICAL PERSONNEL OF THE MULTINATIONAL JOINT TASK FORCE (MNJTF) TREATING CIVILIANS INJURED BY BOKO HARAM IN DAWASHI VILLAGE, KUKAWA LGA OF BORNO STATE

Ex- Appeal Court justice donates wheelchairs to physically challenged


Former Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Justice Mustapha Akanbi (retd)
The Founder, Ma-Assalam Islamic Foundation and Mustapha Akanbi Foundation, Justice Mustapha Akanbi (retd), has urged all tiers of government, corporate bodies and wealthy individuals to invest more in programmes that will alleviate the sufferings of the physically challenged and elder people in the society.
Akanbi spoke in Ilorin on Sunday when the two foundations donated wheelchairs to some physically challenged people.

The mystery of monogamy: scientists claim to have the answer

Study says some species have become monogamous through evolution and, for primates, infanticide is at its root

Couple by fire
Study shows how monogamy has risen and fallen for different species over 75m years. Photograph: Alamy
As an enduring mystery of the human condition, it has been praised and damned in equal measure. It is a bridge over the abyss of isolation but can be a bit like croquet: easy enough to grasp the rules but a hard game to enjoy.
Now scientists in Britain have taken the puzzle of monogamy and boiled it down to one big question: how did it come about in the first place? A new study claims finally to have an answer.
"Humans have ended up monogamous to some extent, it's the predominant way we live," said Christopher Opie, an anthropologist at University College London. "What we have now is an evolutionary pathway for the emergence of monogamy."