You are home alone and your friend comes visiting. You had to get to the kitchen to grab small chops and drinks to show you are hospitable. Returning to the living room, your friend, already on the floor, unable to speak, begins to wheeze and hack, using all energy to inhale and exhale. It’s like
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Facebook has rolled out a new system to try and identify and help users having suicidal thoughts. It allows concerned friends to report content for review. After reviewing a report and confirming that it may indicate suicidal feelings in a user, Facebook will send that user notifications stating that a friend has attempted to help
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There’s a reason why telling your dog off for bad behaviour doesn’t always work. Compared to humans, animals don’t remember specific events, but instead tend to retain useful information that could help them survive. Dogs forget an event within two minutes, while chimpanzees will forget at around 20 seconds. Baboons, pig-tailed macaques, and squirrel monkeys,
The Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has expressed the Federal Government ‘s commitment to ensuring quality teaching and learning, stressing that education was critical to Nigeria’s future. Shekarau was quoted as saying this in the National Universities Commission weekly bulletin, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in
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On February 16, Passnownow shared news about a teacher who uses choreography to teach biology. Well, his creative method of teaching is paying off quite well for him. Dr. Richard Spencer from north-east England who sings and dances his way around the classroom is among 10 finalists in a world teaching contest. Dr Spencer is the only
The Lagos State Government, has refunded N209 million to the students of the Lagos State University, LASU, following the reversal of the school fees by the state government. The refund is the money earlier paid in excess by the students in the wake of the hike in the tuition fees before the reversal as directed
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The excerpt of the book YES I CAN continues today. Last week, we did an excerpt from Chapter 2. Today, PassNowNow is giving its readers an excerption from Chapter 3. The author, in this chapter provides her shoulder (by narrating a practical story) for you to stand on as she reveals what you need to
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Ten-year-old Esther Okade, one of UK’s youngest students from Nigeria, has been accepted to start her maths degree at the Open University. Esther, who enrolled three weeks ago, is already top of her class, scoring 100 per cent in a recent test, Vanguard reports. Esther’s mother, Efe, said the process of applying to the university
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Spending too much time using electronic devices during the day harms teens’ sleep, a new study suggests. The research included nearly 10,000 teenagers, aged 16 to 19, who were asked how much screen time (computer, smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, MP3 player) they got during the day outside of school, and about the
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Enugu — A middle-aged man narrowly escaped death in Enugu, yesterday, following an attack by angry teachers of Metropolitan Girls Secondary School located at Ogui New Layout. The man, an Enugu-based contractor (names withheld), was beaten and stripped naked for allegedly impregnating a Senior Secondary, SS1, student of the school (names withheld). The culprit has been
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