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The brain is responsible for a wide range of behaviors and experiences throughout adolescence – both positive and negative. During the teen years, structural and functional changes in the brain may contribute to many negative characteristics such as: difficulty planning organizing and setting priorities inability to foresee consequences difficulty postponing gratification poor impulse control […]
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For most of us, there is always that one subject in school that we just can’t master. The most common is math! While it may not be easy, there is a way to do well in that subject.. depending on how hard you try. Prepare yourself for the subject. Buy all the supplies you
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There is a saying that nobody is completely complete – we are all constantly moving towards perfection. Excellent goals can be achieved if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical and expect more than others think is possible. Rather than
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An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered 20-year-old Oluyi Oba remanded over alleged rape of a five-year-old girl. The police prosecutor, Mr. Emmanuel David, told the court that the accused committed the offence on October 22 at 1p.m. in Iyin-Ekiti. He said the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code Cap C 16, Laws of
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Sixteen months ago a car accident forever changed Mackenzie Gorden’s life. Doctors told her parents their 18-year-old daughter would never walk again. But Mackenzie was determined to prove them wrong, especially since she was asked to be the maid of honor at her sister Brittany’s wedding. “I never accepted that I couldn’t walk again,”
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Irene Myangoh, a personal assistant working at a law firm, went to a renowned hair salon along Kenyatta Avenue, in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi, and spent more than N5,500 on a human hair weave. Two weeks later she started suffering from severe headache that would not go away. She even could not sleep
“A girl who is pregnant at 14 is a girl whose rights have been violated and whose future is derailed. Childhood must never be derailed by motherhood…” Teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a
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Facebook wants to get inside users heads with new capabilities to track and analyse their behaviour across the social network. Not content with collecting huge troves of data about users’ lives outside of Facebook, executives want new capabilities to track users’ minute interactions with the service itself. New technology would allow them to start collecting
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The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Dakuku Peterside, has said the country should be worried about its rising illiterate population. Peterside, in a statement yesterday, said a World Bank report on the situation should be taken seriously. Nigerians, the report said, “are relatively poor, with about 46 per cent of
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The Old Boys’ Association of Loyola College, Ibadan, has urged the Oyo State government to return missionary schools to their original owners. It said this would tackle the falling standard of education. The association’s National President, Dr. Benedictus Ajayi, spoke with reporters yesterday on the state of facilities at the college. He said the
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