The wait is over for Instagram users who want to change the captions of their retro-style photographs. Since its launch in 2010, users of the photo-sharing app have had to put up typos in their captions because they couldn’t be corrected after publication. But now the California-based company has at last added an editing tool.
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The Yobe Government has closed down all public and private schools in the state, following Monday’s suicide bomb attack on Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum. The attack had claimed 48 lives and injured 79 others. The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Muhammad Lamin, said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria
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Teens are often seen trying to study while listening to music, watching TV and juggling texts and tweets. But new research by two final year school girls, overseen by Stanford University, found that 85 per cent of young people struggle to perform simple tasks when distracted by music, phones or email. For a fortunate 15
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My dear friends, how are you doing today? Sure you had a great weekend. I had an exciting one giving expression to my dreams. I am beginning to write to you now after all-night dedication to meeting a deadline. Yet, I dare not go to bed because I have to be here discussing this interesting
In a sickening development, scores of students have been killed and several others wounded as an explosion occurred at Government Science College, Potiskum, in Yobe state this morning (Monday). The suicide bomber was said to have dressed in the school’s uniform to avoid any suspicion and detonated the explosive during the assembly period of the
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As much as we say relationships won’t change us at all, we’re usually wrong. We see lovey-dovey couples in movies, on TV shows and even in real life on Facebook, and we roll our eyes at them and promise anyone who will listen that we would NEVER do something so corny and lame. And then
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Since Wednesday this week, it’s become harder to avoid WhatsApp messages, or at least claim that you haven’t seen them. The Facebook-owned app has started displaying two blue ticks in the bottom right-hand corner of an individual message to show that it has been read. And clicking on the message will show you the precise
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The button, which will appear at the top of user news feeds, will enable an easy donation to groups such as International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Save the Children. “In times of crisis, people turn to Facebook to learn about what’s happening, share their experiences and
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The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has said that, Nigeria recorded mass failure of secondary school pupils in the 2014 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in Mathematics and English language due to lack of skilled teachers of the subjects . Shekarau stated this yesterday, in his keynote address at the 60th National Council of Education
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Teachers in Osun have given the state government 14-day ultimatum to pay their outstanding allowances, release running grants and provide instructional materials in schools. This was contained in a letter sent to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola by the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. The union warned that failure by the government to meet
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