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REVEALED: Northern States Have Nigeria’s Worst Girl-Child Education – Report

Eight states in northern Nigeria have the country’s worst girl child education and health indices, the latest scorecard by a group of nongovernmental researchers, says. The report says Kebbi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Jigawa, Yobe, Zamfara, Katsina, and Gombe states have Nigeria’s worst girl child education, highest female illiteracy, highest adolescent girl marriage, highest under 15 child bearing, […]

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ENGLISH GRAMMAR: 20 Rules of Subject Verb Agreement

While grammar is not as static a science as is typically assumed, there are 20 rules of subject verb agreement that attempt to objectify part of the English language form. Most of the concepts of subject verb agreement are straightforward, yet some aspects of singular and plural usage in English grammar are more complicated. Consider

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TERRIBLE: Principal defiled Boy In Office While Parent Waited Outside

A former middle school principal in North Carolina is accused of sexually assaulting a student while the boy’s unsuspecting parent was outside the room. David Ellis Edwards, 49, was arrested Friday and charged with second-degree forcible sex offense, sexual acts with a student, taking indecent liberties with a minor and crimes against nature, WTVD reported.

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STRIKE: Has ASUU been overdemanding? Get a copy of the FG/ASUU 2009 Agreement

On the first day of July this year, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, began an indefinite strike that has lasted till date and may run deep into the future. According to the union, the strike followed government’s inability to keep to an October 2009 agreement reached by both parties. The agreement was reached

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2013 National Essay Competition: Hurry! UBA Foundation Still Receiving Entries from Secondary School Students!

Students in secondary schools across the country have since been invited to submit entries in the 2013 UBA Foundation National Essay Competition.  The essay competition for secondary students is organised by UBA Foundation; the corporate social responsibility arm of UBA to encourage healthy and intellectual competition among secondary school students in Nigeria.  Ijeoma Aso, Managing

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First Bank donates N44m Facilities to Lagos Schools

First Bank of Nigeria has donated sport facilities worth N44m to Queens College and Kings College in Lagos. The bank constructed a 450-seater sports pavilion at Queens College and renovated the squash court at Kings College as part of its contribution to sport development and pupils’ well being. First Bank’s spokesperson, Mrs. Folake Ani-Mumuney, said

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The Alarming Truth About What Technology Is Really Doing To Teenagers

  If it seems like your kids are constantly plugged in, tapping away on their iPhones, obsessively gaming and SnapChatting way more than they’re actually … chat-chatting — well, that’s because they are. It’s estimated that children ages 8 to 18 spend an average of seven hours a day behind screens; teens send an average

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I Made A First Class Because I Was Focussed From My First Day In Class – Prof. Olukoju, VC, Caleb University

Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju, the Vice Chancellor of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, in this interview with ADEOLA BALOGUN, shares his experiences Why did a young man choose to study History when everyone would like to study Medicine, Law and Engineering? When I was a young man, my parents thought I was going to be an

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