Thirteen students of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Ogba, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, fainted as a result of inhaling an unidentified poisonous fumes coming from the nearby cottage factory in Ogba Shopping Arcade. This incident took place just a few months after students of the same school collapsed after inhaling an unidentified chemical waste discharged
Last week, someone commented and wanted to know if I’m encouraging ‘teens to drop out’ from schools. The answer is, NO. I do not encourage anyone to do what they don’t want to do. I’m only retelling my experiences; they might help young people or may not help them. The question is: are Nigerian young
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Topic: Periodic Table Introduction The most important classification in chemistry is the arrangement of the elements in the periodic table. In 1869, Mendeleev, a Russian scientist, was the first to construct a periodic table. He arranged the elements in order of increasing relative atomic mass. He pointed out that elements with similar properties kept
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Topic: Position; Distance, Displacement, Speed, Velocity and Distance-Time graph The position of a point in space is determined by its distance and direction from other points. The statement of position is accomplished by means of a frame of reference or point of reference, which we shall call the origin. Distance is the movement coverage
Despite the Federal Government’s plea to chairmen of Governing Councils of Federal polytechnics to prevail on striking polytechnic staff to accept government’s offer to pay the outstanding CONTISS 15 arrears in two instalments for the immediate resolution of the ongoing strike, students in the over 20 federal polytechnics and several other state polytechnics would have
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A 400-level Law student of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Ige Dipo, has committed suicide at his residence outside the campus of the university few days after his lover broke up with him. It was authoritatively gathered that Dipo, said to be above average academically by his colleagues, was found dead in his apartment at
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(By Jennifer Carey) When adopting technology in the classroom, one of the key concerns for teachers and administrators is classroom management. I am often asked if there is a way to “lock down an iPad screen” or “ensure students cannot go to inappropriate websites” (e.g. Social Media). In other words, how do we keep students
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(By Morgan Levy) If walking into high school somebody told me that I would willingly join a competitive public speaking team, loving it so much that I would eventually become President, I would reply that the chances of that happening are lower than those of Miley Cyrus becoming President. At the time, I feared public
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Topic: Time; Concepts of Time, Ways of Measuring Time, i.e. Both Old and Modern Methods Both Galileo and Newton and most people up until the 20th century thought that time was the same for everyone everywhere. This is the basis for timelines, where time is a parameter. Our modern conception of time is based
The Northern States Governors’ Forum has resolved to abolish payment of fees in secondary schools in the region in a bid to boost enrolment of students. Its Chairman, Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger, made this known in Minna on Monday at the National Association of Nigerian Students’ (NANS) award ceremony to distinguished Nigerians. The forum
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