The Nupe Tribe of Nigeria

The Nupe people are a tribe of people located in the small town of Bida, Niger State, Nigeria. The town of Bida is the world headquarters of all Nupe speaking people and consists of people from different parts of the state.  The town is ruled by a supreme ruler who is the Emir, and known in Read More

Top 10 Best Cities in the World to Photograph

The beauty, creativity, and impact of a photograph are clearly in the hands of the photographer. Photographers understand that the camera plays a relatively small part in the creative process because a great picture can originate from any subject, destination, or city, assuming the photographer has Read More

Wondrous Juneau, Playful Whales, and the Defiant Inside Passage

It was the northernmost journey's end of our Alaska Inside Passage cruise and the 2nd most remarkable destination of the trip: only behind Canada’s Yukon Territory. It was the serene, surprisingly temperate, and nature-filled Juneau Alaska. Juneau is a magnificent panorama of natur Read More

Exif - And What It Is Good For

Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, not EXIF according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded b Read More

How Best to Spend One's Time in Yosemite

One-Day Excursions No. 1. If I were so time-poor as to have only one day to spend in Yosemite I should start at daybreak, say at three o'clock in midsummer, with a pocketful of any sort of dry breakfast stuff, for Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome, the head of Illilouette Fall, Nevada Fall, the t Read More

Barcelona, Spain: Facts, Travel and Points of Interest

Barcelona is a fascinating Spanish city with exceptional diversity of culture, culinary arts, and fabled architecture. In fact, the city’s architectural treasures span an average of 2000 years with various towering temples puncturing the sky and ancient city walls dazzling tourists from all ov Read More

Is Technology Our Friend?

Who is a friend?  A friend according to the Oxford Advanced learners’ dictionary is a person who has the same interests and opinions as yourself, and who will help and support you. This is someone we run to in bad and good times, someone to whom we pour our hearts to, someone who knows th Read More

Why Literature Needs Freedom

In some heavily censored countries, freedom of literature seems surreal, almost unattainable. However, for most writers elsewhere in the world, literature itself, either reading or creating it, always alludes to freedom. Literature is the only known medium used for conveying maintaining and appr Read More

What It Will Take To End Early Child Marriage In Nigeria

It is an honour to be granted this rare opportunity by the World Bank to comment on this topic and I hope that this work will pass the desired message and create a lasting impact in ending early child marriage in Africa. A convenient departure point therefore may be to establish the reasons for t Read More

What are The Benefits of Magnesium oil For The Human Body?

Different food products like milk, eggs, green vegetables and fatty fish which are well known for containing different types of vitamins are readily available — knowing that vitamins are essential for the human body. While working on research had come on the platform with magnesium Oil is an e Read More

War Is A Crime

  Thirty five million people were casualties of the World War 1 (deceased and wounded), sixty million in world war 2; One million in the Korean war and three million in the Vietnam war. In recent times, the Bosnian ethnic cleansing led to more than two hundred thousand casualties , Iraq anot Read More

Twisted History and Political Cannibalism

So many customs typify our distant common tribal heritage pasts. Neither religion nor costume is of my practice, but, ritual, ceremony, and costuming are traditional means of understanding nature's sameness and diversities. Learning to walk in the shoes of Read More