Social networking apps usually bring people together but a new gadget does quite the opposite. HateWithFriends.com asks users to log in with their Facebook account. It then pulls up a list of their ‘friends’ and urges them reveal who they secretly ‘hate’ by clicking on a button below each face. If that same person

  Scores of graduates of Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, dismissed from the 2013 Batch ‘C’ National Youth Service Corps orientation camps across the country for non-accreditation of their courses of study yesterday besieged Government House, Owerri, to protest their plight. The aggrieved students, some of whom were putting on NYSC uniforms, were grieved over what

  The Federal Government on Monday shifted the deadline for the strikers from December 4 to December 9. Previously the government, through the acting Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had ordered the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resume work on December 4. However, on Tuesday the Executive Secretary of

A fifteen year old student of Ambol Comprehensive High School, Akesan-Igando, Lagos, Ezenwa Joseph Okonkwo, has emerged winner of the third edition of the UBA National Essay Competition for Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria. Okonkwo’s essay was picked out of about 2,000 entries by a panel of four Nigeria professors for its outstanding style, earning

  We don’t really talk a lot about homeschooling here at in Nigeria, mainly because the idea is still kind of foreign to most of us. However, it’s good to acquint ourselves with this alternative kind of teaching and learning. There’s a lot to say about homeschooling – or unschooling, or hackschooling, as different variations

  One day before the FG’s ultimatum to ASUU expires, academic activities have resumed at the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki Recommencement of activities has followed a directive requesting the lecturers to the return to work issued by the authorities of the university. News Agency of Nigeria’s (NAN) correspondents visited the university on Tuesday and reported that

  Women have known it for generations – and the proof has finally arrived. Scientists have found that the female brain is ‘hard-wired’ to be better at multitasking. Men’s brains, in comparison, are better at concentrating on single complex tasks – whether it be reading a map or cooking a meal. Scientists scanned the brains

The Senate of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) has sacked all academic staff on its payroll with immediate effect on December 2, 2013, Monday, for failure to return to classrooms. This has been confirmed by Mr. Chike Ezenwa, the Public Relations Officers (PRO) of the institution, in a telephone conversation with the Nigerian

Despite the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ASUU stance on going on with its strike, some universities have ordered their lecturers and students to resume academic activities. According to report, the authorities of the University of Jos have directed lecturers to resume work immediately. The university’s registrar, Jilli Dandam, issued a statement, which reads

  Students of Obafemi  Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, in Osun State, on Monday failed to resume for academic activities despite the Federal Government directive for immediate reopening of all federal universities in the country. A visit to the institution, shows that none of the students were seen on campus for possible commencement of academic activities