As parents, educators, and volunteers who work with youth, we probably think that today’s youth live in a complex world—one that may prove to be more challenging than when we were teenagers. Teens may be especially confused and misinformed by media-based myths about sexuality and sex role behaviours. It is not uncommon to see images
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Structure of matter A. Evidence of the particle nature of matter The idea that matter is made up of minute particles called atoms dates back to the ancient Greeks. According to the Greek philosopher Democritus, a given piece of substance, say a piece of yam, can be cut into smaller and smaller bits, until eventually
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Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has urged the 2015 UTME candidates to check its website http://jamb.org.ng/ for the list of universities they have been redistributed to. Speaking this morning on Channels TV, JAMB registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said 2015 UTME candidates are to check JAMB’s website for the list and the universities they have
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Many candidates who sat for the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination may not have their results released in the next two weeks, the West African Examinations Council has announced. No fewer than 19 states of the federation owe the council about N4bn examination registration fees. The WAEC Head of National Office, Lagos, Mr.
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Definition of Electrical Energy Electrical energy is the work done when a quantity of charge moves between two points of potential differences measured in joules. Work done = Quantity of charge x p.d V =w/Q W = QV……………………………………(i) W = Work done, Q = Quantity of charge, V = p.d. across the terminals and we
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ALKENES An alkene also known as olefin is an unsaturated hydrocarbon containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond. The simplest alkenes, with only one double bond, no rings, and no other functional groups, are hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n. The first three are: Ethene C2H4 Propene C3H6 Butene C4H8 Laboratory Preparation of Ethene Dehydration of
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Number bases Most people count in tens. For instance, the place value of the digits in number 4956 in this system Thousands hundreds tens units ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 4 9 5 6 The place values are in powers of ten. It is called the base ten system. 4956 = 4 X
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has announced the adoption of a policy whereby candidates of universities with surplus applicants for the Unified Matriculation Examinations (UTME) are reassigned to other universities with lower number of candidates than their capacities. The decision for the new policy was taking during its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting, held
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