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Obasanjo could not stop with the open letter last year, he comes back again on Goodluck Jonathan that he (Jonathan) squandered $25 billion USD left by his administration. The former Nigerian president made the allegation while hosting the South-West women leaders at his residence in Abeokuta, describing the administration of President Jonathan as full of impunity. He attributed Jonathan’s squandermania as against saving for the rainy day as what landed Nigeria into this economic quagmire where $1 is exchanged for N195.

A huge coronal hole that is hundred times bigger than the earth is spotted in the sun by NASA camera aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Jan. 1, 2015 . The irregularly shaped hole spans about 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) at its widest point, said Dr. C. Alex Young, associate director for science for the heliophysics division at the space agency's Goddard facility in Greenbelt, Maryland. Its total surface area is about 410 times that of the Earth, he said (see below for size comparison). This is not the first time a hole was spotted in the sun but never of this size and in this sense. According to NASA in Huffington Post, Coronal holes were first seen in photos taken by NASA astronauts in the 1970s. They aren't holes in the usual sense. Rather, they're   colder, cooler regions   where the sun's magnetic field reaches out into space. The holes can remain visible for five years or longer. Americans however took to the social media...

Monday turned deadly as two young but promising US skiers died in an avalanche in the Austrian Alps slopes where they were training for an international competition. Ronnie Berlack, 20, of Franconia, N.H., and Bryce Astle, 19, of Sandy, Utah, died in the incident. Four other skiers who were practicing with them managed to ski out of the bourgeoning mass and emerged unhurt.

It was a wonderful manifestation of God Almighty yesterday as dummies took the hit for human beings in a shop as a BMW saloon car lost control and ran into the shop.  This happened at shop at JK Junction, Agbowo, U.I, Ibadan at exactly 6:50 pm.

Demonstration and counter demonstration sweep through Germany in support and against the islamization of Europe, otherwise known as Pegida. Berlin, Cologne, Dresden and Stuttgart have witnessed various degrees of the rallies. A record 18,000 people turned out on Monday at one rally in Dresden and counter demonstrations have sprung up also.

A giant stride has been made in the study of the age of stars. Astronomers find that the actual age of a star can be calculated by the speed of its spin. It is found that younger stars spin faster than the older stars.