In the south, far away from the violence, residents of Lagos and Abuja have become numb to the ongoing tragedy as almost daily headlines report attacks, killings and bombings.
The day's newspaper headlines report: TERROR IN HOTEL BLAST.
While some claim the fiscal crisis in the states is exaggerated, Tuesday's edition of Stateline.org, the Web site that covers the 50 capitals, featured as its top 10 headlines reports from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois and Louisiana, detailing how they are "still struggling" with reduced revenue, lowered credit ratings, employee furloughs and stubborn unemployment.
On February 28 , 2014 a Bloomberg headline reported "Pearson Plunges as Earnings Drop on North America Education".
What these services share is a passion to hang on to every visitor (partly to please their advertisers), so they are increasingly loading up their sites with such attractions as news headlines, weather reports and, to signify cachet, what's cool.
Another headline reported that Ariel Sharon had named a "war crimes suspect" as Israel's new defense minister.
One headline reported on terrible food shortages.
It's the small, unconscious biases like those that effect funding and fundraising that play as much of a role in perpetuating problems in the industry as the headline-grabbing reports.
Rather than those which focus on international issues or world events, Sing Tao always put news about ceremony and activities relative to Chinese language onto headlines or report as highlight.
In recent years, it was the sex scandals that most dominated the headlines, as reports emerged from judicial investigations of tawdry parties at the prime minister's private homes involving scores of young women and even a prostitute who went by the stage name Ruby Heartstealer.
