Have you ever heard or read messages from banks telling customers not to give their account information or debit and credit card PIN to anyone over the internet, via text message or other means as they would never request such information? And even while at an ATM, you are encouraged to protect your PIN from
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This Friday morning started like all other days: the sky was clear, the birds were chirping in the trees that dotted the front yard; and Pa Tswane was seated on the old, wooden recliner in his front yard listening to the radio in Swahili and chewing – even at that time of the morning –
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Did you know that having a robust life outside academics is one of the requirements for admission into the best universities in the world? A lot of Straight A students with zero life outside academics have been known to be turned down! Why are hobbies and extra-curricula activities such an important part of life? Are
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Meet Richard Ogundiya and Tolu Yussuff, two 19 year-old entrepreneurs whose company, Jangilova, is set to change the way you watch TV and entertain yourself. Richard is a 300-level student of the University of Lagos, while Tolu is a student of the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) Lagos. Their proposed service will connect people to
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You must have studied in school how to write letters, whether formal or informal. But in this age, most letters are not written with ink on paper, but electronically. It is not unusual nowadays to submit your essays, resumes, application letters, class presentations and assignments, and all such matters using your email address. Now the
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Genghis Khan lived between 1162 and 1227, and was a leader of the Mongols. He rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history, which reached as far as Poland, Vietnam, Syria and Korea. At their peak, the Mongols controlled an area about the size of Africa. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left
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The onset of puberty—the stage of life in which you become physically mature—is a period when you enter one of life’s greatest transitions. In a sense, you’re moving to a whole new “neighborhood.” The name of which is called Adulthood But the move to adulthood can bring about mixed feelings, and it may not be
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Do you ever feel like nobody takes you seriously? Could it be something you are doing or not doing right? Below are seven things you can do to increase your credibility, get people to take you more seriously and ensure you get treated with the respect you deserve. 1. Don’t Make Your Statements Sound Like Questions It’s
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Back in the day, all cheating involved was spying at a neighbor’s paper or copying your friend’s homework. The really hardened ones wrote the answers to a test or examination on little scraps of papers called chips, wrote on their thighs, on desks, or mathematical sets. But in today’s world, cheating has taken a new dimension
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A writer once said: “Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language”. That being said, how should you act when someone pronounces yours wrongly? You may feel a strong need to correct the person, and this is in order. But you also don’t want to offend or
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