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Facebook Testing New Feature That Will Let Your Old Posts Haunt You Forever

If you’ve been on Facebook for a long time, we’ve got some bad news for you: Facebook is reportedly working on a feature that will let your friends search through your old posts … by keyword. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the company is testing a new option for the Facebook app that will allow people

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Students ‘addicted to mobile phones’: Some spending up to ten hours a day texting & using social media

Students spend up to ten hours a day on their mobile phones, a study found. Some even say they feel stressed if their phone is not in sight. A team at Baylor University in Texas found that female students spent an average of ten hours a day texting, emailing and on social media while their

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Lol: UNILAG Students consult dictionaries as Patrick Obahiagbon delivers Speech (Watch)

Nigeria’s No. 1 ‘grammarian’, Patrick Obahiagbon represented the Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole at the 2014 United Nations International Youths Day which was organized by Rise Networks at the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The topic of Patrick’s speech was “Job Creation for Youth in Nigeria”. Patrick delivered the speech with lots of passion and

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#PNN E-Mentoring (Taiwo Akinlami): Personal Safety/Self Protection For Teenagers: Guidelines To Responses (2)

I say a very good morning dear young friends. How are you doing today? Sure you are making the best of your elongated long vacation. I charge you to make a commitment to read and develop yourself. Your mind is an asset too great to waste. Please invest in it. Today, as I promised last

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Ebola Fears: NYSC plans screening centres in orientation camps

THE Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi weekend said the Corps would  set up Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, screening centres in orientation camps across the country to check the spread of the dreaded EVD. He said already, the corps had taken measures to ensure the safety of the corp

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Check Out How Much Time Students Worldwide Spend In Classrooms

When we compare education systems around the world (which we do, quite often) to see what’s working and what isn’t, one of the metrics we often see is ‘school life expectancy’, otherwise known as how many years students go to school. When we talk about schools in developing countries, we hear about children who can’t

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‘Promising’ Ebola vaccine to go into trials – and it could be available by the end of the year

Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus. Altogether 60 healthy volunteers will be given the vaccine next month in a trial led by Oxford University scientists. If the vaccine performs as well in humans as in monkeys, the trial will be extended to

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Ebola Fears: Teachers, parents differ over postponement of schools’ resumption

Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, parents and other stakeholders have expressed divergent views on the decision by the Federal Government to postpone the resumption date of all primary and secondary schools nationwide till October 13 following the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country. While some stakeholders believe that the move

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