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 […]

  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

FIFA on Tuesday have announced the following pots to be used for Friday’s draw for next year’s World Cup finals when the 32 teams will be placed into eight first-round groups of four. Pot 1 consists of the eight top seeds, one of each to be drawn in Groups A-H. The remaining pots are based

  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

  Ivorian footballer Yaya Toure has been picked ahead of Nigeria’s John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses as the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year. ‘I think I’ve been nominated for five years in a row and finally winning the award is amazing. I’m very happy as it is the fans who have given it

  Justin Bieber has been dropping tracks from his new album for weeks now, but Monday brought an extra treat for Beliebers: A steamy music video for “All That Matters,” featuring the Canadian pop star getting with a young model. So what, according to the Biebs, is all that matters? You! “You’re all that matters

  Realising how much impact peer pressure has on teenagers’ lives and their future, it is a must that we all learn more about it and teach coping ways so that teens will know how to deal with it. Yet, we need to acknowledge that teens are not the only ones dealing with it, parents