The Registrar of the University of Ilorin, Mr Emmanuel Obafemi, has said that the institution would, from January 2014, be fully digitalised. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ilorin, Obafemi said that the development would make it possible for lecturers to be able to send assignments to their students
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A Michigan high school (USA) robotics team just changed 4-year-old Harmony Taylor’s life by giving her a new hand. The robotics team at West Catholic High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., built a robohand for the local preschooler over the course of the past six weeks using a 3D printer, according to Michigan news outlet
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A non-governmental organisation, VirginsBride Network, unveiled about 150 maidens on Friday in Lagos to encourage the virtue of sexual purity among females in the country. The girls, who were dressed in white gowns as evidence of their chastity, also took a pledge to remain undefiled till marriage. Parents were encouraged to safeguard their daughters
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Police say at least 10 of the 17 people reported injured at the primary school in Guilin, Guangxi province, were school children. Witnesses told Xinhua news agency they saw a three-wheeled vehicle pull up to the school before the explosion. The cause of the explosion remains unclear. “First, the motorcycle caught on fire and then
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A Dutch teenager has invented a device that he claims could clean up some 20 billion tonnes of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. Boyan Slat, 19, came up with the idea of a series of floating booms and processing platforms designed to collect floating plastic rubbish. The ‘ocean cleanup’ concept is designed to capture
Colleges of education lecturers have issued a final strike notice to the Federal Government, urging it to address the problems in the sector or risk an industrial action. The teachers, under the auspices of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, stated this on Monday as they began a seven-day sensitisation of their members across
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Although the internet is often seen as a dangerous place for teenagers, their mobile phone and specifically their text messages could be just as damaging and influential. Research from the University of Texas have found a ‘strong link’ between those teenagers who send and receive texts about antisocial behaviour, such as rule breaking, drugs and
(By Yushau Shuaib) This missive is to appeal to members of Academic Staffs Union of Universities, ASUU, individually and collectively, to consider the plight of innocent students and their helpless parents and return to work. Since July 2, 2013 when they declared a “total and indefinite strike” over issues they claim have remained unresolved pertaining
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A school principal and his deputy and seven other senior teachers in the Lagos State Ministry of Education have been sacked by the state government for their involvement in examination malpractice during the last May/June West African School Certificate Examination, WASCE. They are; Mr. S. O. Amure, School Principal on Grade Level 17; Mr. V.
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President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has sacked nine serving ministers. In a reshuffle that was carried out on Wednesday and announced to the ministers at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Jonathan dropped six senior and three junior ministers. They are: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru; the Minister