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Parents are damaging their children’s literacy by abandoning reading with them too soon – typically by the age of seven – according to research. Around two-thirds of six year olds enjoy bedtime stories or other recreational reading with an adult. But that plummets to 44 per cent among children who are just a year older

Scientists in the US claim to have discovered how humans are able to use their imagination to create art, invent tools and think scientifically Scientists claim to have discovered how and where human imagination comes from. Researchers in the US say the ability to create art, invent tools and think scientifically comes from a neural

Screening of candidates, who made University of Ibadan their first and/or second choice institution and are duly registered for the Post-UTME screening exercise will hold on Saturday 28 September, 2013 at 11.00 am. Prospective candidates are advised to log in to the Post-UTME portal using their existing usernames and passwords to check their details from

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday said that the introduction of Computer-Based Test (CBT) in its examinations would curb examination malpractice. Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB’s Registrar, said this in Ondo at the first technical meeting of the board on 2013/2014 admission to Nigeria National Diploma and National Innovative Diploma awarding institutions. The

Benue State governor, Mr Gabriel Suswam, yesterday directed the management of the Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi to reopen the institution and announced the decisions of the state government to suspend payment of salaries to lecturers and sack lecturers that failed to comply. The BSU lecturers joined their counterparts across the country to observe the

  The moon just got younger – by a few hundred million years. Scientists now claim that the moon is around 4.4 and 4.45 billion years old, rather than the 4.56 billion years previously thought. Despite being the nearest body to the Earth, astronomers are still not sure precisely how or when it formed. One

A rift that has torn students of Nigerian institutions of higher learning manifested itself at the University of Lagos when protesters organised by the Joint Campus Committee (JCC) of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) were yesterday barred from gaining entrance into the University of Lagos. The protesters made good on their threat to

Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced that they’ve approved new weights for the elements thanks to more precise measurements and better calculations of the abundance of certain isotopes (atoms of an

A total of twenty graduates of the Redeemer’s University (RUN), Mowe, Ogun State, bagged First Class Honours degree at the recent fifth convocation of the Institution, held at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Youth Centre Camp. The event featured the award of first degrees to a total of 519 graduands across the three

A 17-year-old won a science fair and he may have also changed the way that the flu is treated in the process. California resident Eric Chen took home the grand prize Monday at the Google Science Fair for his work tackling the flu virus, according NBC News. He created a 3-D models and computer simulations