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Gabriel Okara answers the call of the River Nun
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Captain Jihad: Ex-terrorist is now comic book hero
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Burying your head in a novel isn’t just a way to escape the world: psychologists are increasingly finding that reading can affect our personalities. A trip into the world of Stephenie Meyer, for example, actually makes us feel like vampires. Researchers from the University at Buffalo gave 140 undergraduates passages from either Meyer’s Twilight or JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to read, with the vampire group delving into an extract in which Edward Cullen tells his teenage love interest Bella what it is like to be a vampire, and the wizardly readers getting a section in which Harry and his cohorts are “sorted” into Hogwarts houses.
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Burying your head in a novel isn’t just a way to escape the world: psychologists are increasingly finding that reading can affect our personalities. A trip into the world of Stephenie Meyer, for example, actually makes us feel like vampires. Researchers from the University at Buffalo gave 140 undergraduates passages from either Meyer’s Twilight or JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to read, with the vampire group delving into an extract in which Edward Cullen tells his teenage love interest Bella what it is like to be a vampire, and the wizardly readers getting a section in which Harry and his cohorts are “sorted” into Hogwarts houses.
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Lifting peril, desperately and eloquently: A review
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The Niger Delta crisis is still stoutly with us and largely characterizes the state of insecurity and, indeed, instability, of our national polity. In spite of the gains of the Amnesty Programme by the Federal Government, as well as several other measures to curtail the crisis, it is evident that we have not heard the last of the crisis. The recently reported oil-spill in Ogoni land and some parts of Delta State and the anger generated by this clearly underscores the presentness of the crisis. The critical indices of the un-abating state of the malaise in the region are, increasing economic exploitation, ecological and environmental spoliation and degradation, intense assault on human rights and social neglect.
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The Niger Delta crisis is still stoutly with us and largely characterizes the state of insecurity and, indeed, instability, of our national polity. In spite of the gains of the Amnesty Programme by the Federal Government, as well as several other measures to curtail the crisis, it is evident that we have not heard the last of the crisis. The recently reported oil-spill in Ogoni land and some parts of Delta State and the anger generated by this clearly underscores the presentness of the crisis. The critical indices of the un-abating state of the malaise in the region are, increasing economic exploitation, ecological and environmental spoliation and degradation, intense assault on human rights and social neglect.