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November 23, 2013

ASUU, FG meeting reaches a dead end – again!

  The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, has once again ended in a stalemate. Governor Gabriel Suswam announced at the end of the closed-door meeting which lasted for about three hours, that N100billion will be disbursed by September 1, to tackle infrastructure deficit in the country’s universities.

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SHOCKING: Three Teens Gun Down University Student Out Of Sheer Boredom (Video)

  An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighbourhood was shot and killed by three “bored” teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said. Christopher Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying

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US Schools Top World University Ranking As Nigerian Institutions Remain Elusive

  The United States colleges topped the  global higher education ranking with 17 of its universities in the top 20 institutions. Some institutions swapped places in the top 20 but they were all still there except for the University of Tokyo, which slipped a place to make way for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH

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BREAKING NEWS: President Jonathan directs immediate action to end ASUU strike

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed the two Federal Government committees negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate measures at ending the on-going strike. The Chairman of the Universities Needs Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue, made this known after a closed-door meeting of the two committees and

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Texting and Verbal Skills: Will Today’s Teens Be Able to Communicate

  Today more and more teens have cell phones.  Teen texting between friends has now overtaken cell phone communications – and every other common form of interaction.  According to a study byPEW Research: Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month. One in three send more than

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15 Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Silly

It’s perfectly fine to fracture the occasional stuffy grammatical rule (and many times it’s preferable). On the other hand, making some grammatical errors just makes you look bad, and hurts your effectiveness. Sometimes we even misuse words simply because we hear others use them incorrectly. So, we’ve assembled the 15 most egregious grammar goofs into

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