Akintunde Ahmad, a 17-year old Nigerian student at Oakland Tech in Oakland, who got a 5.0 GPA and 2,100 on the SAT, has received numerous offer to study in some of America’s top colleges like Yale, Columbia and Brown. While some people are still in shock over his accomplishments, the star student athlete notes in
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Los Angeles (USA) students think some schools deserve more attention and resources. They staged a protest and took it to the streets. And they brought their desks with them. Some 375 empty desks blocked a downtown street. It stopped traffic for several hours outside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s offices. Organizers say the number
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Real Madrid held off a determined fightback by Borussia Dortmund to secure a place in the semi-finals of the Champions League. Real won the first leg 3-0 and should have sealed the tie, but Angel Di Maria’s early penalty was saved. From then on, the hosts took control as Marco Reus rounded Iker Casillas and
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Students of Yaba College of Technology and members of Education Right Campaign (ERC) yesterday protested the prolonged strike action embarked upon by public polytechnic lecturers. The students took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to register their grievances on the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) industrial action, and called on federal government to
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Students of Yaba College of Technology and members of Education Right Campaign (ERC) yesterday protested the prolonged strike action embarked upon by public polytechnic lecturers. The students took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to register their grievances on the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) industrial action, and called on federal government
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The video above is tagged “Penalty of The Century”. However it’s got three great lessons for everyone to learn and always remember: 1. Never lose hope before the time 2. Never celebrate before the time 3. Never leave your post before the battle is over Watch the video and don’t forget to drop your comments
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Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, has ordered the arrest of three secondary school teachers for allegedly forging the signatures of their respective principals as having nominated them to supervise the May/June Senior School Certificate examination. Muoboghare said: “Their action borders on criminality and therefore they deserved to be
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How has the last week been? Remember that nothing just happens, we make them happen! From the lion and zebra story, I followed your thoughts in the comments section and the reasons for your choices – it was quite interesting. Many went for the Zebra because they felt sympathy, they saw it as a prey
We all know ‘eat a bit less, exercise a bit more’ is key to weight loss, but there are many other factors at play that are only now being discovered by scientists. EAT WRONG-HANDED Many of us eat out of habit, particularly when we are distracted by something else, such as the TV. But
The Federal Government said the refusal of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to accept the payment of their N40 billion emolument in two instalments was responsible for the lingering strike. The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, said this in Bauchi on Monday at the North-East stakeholders’ town hall meeting on Tertiary Education Trust
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