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What Makes The Teenage Brain Tick?

  The brain is responsible for a wide range of behaviors and experiences throughout adolescence – both positive and negative.  During the teen years, structural and functional changes in the brain may contribute to many negative characteristics such as: difficulty planning organizing and setting priorities inability to foresee consequences difficulty postponing gratification poor impulse control

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Yet again, 20-yr-old accused of raping 5-yr-old girl

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered 20-year-old Oluyi Oba remanded over alleged rape of a five-year-old girl. The police prosecutor, Mr. Emmanuel David, told the court that the accused committed the offence on October 22 at 1p.m. in Iyin-Ekiti. He said the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code Cap C 16, Laws of

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Paralyzed Teen Walks Down Aisle At Sister’s Wedding

  Sixteen months ago a car accident forever changed Mackenzie Gorden’s life. Doctors told her parents their 18-year-old daughter would never walk again. But Mackenzie was determined to prove them wrong, especially since she was asked to be the maid of honor at her sister Brittany’s wedding.  “I never accepted that I couldn’t walk again,”

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LADIES BEWARE: How Human Hair Weave Leads to Death of a Girl, Puts Other in Critical Condition

Irene Myangoh, a personal assistant working at a law firm, went to a renowned hair salon along Kenyatta Avenue, in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi, and spent more than N5,500 on a human hair weave. Two weeks later she started suffering from severe headache that would not go away. She even could not sleep

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Teen Pregnancy: 7.3 Million Teenage Births In Developing World, UN Says

“A girl who is pregnant at 14 is a girl whose rights have been violated and whose future is derailed. Childhood must never be derailed by motherhood…” Teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a

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Facebook monitoring new technology to track users’ behaviour online

Facebook wants to get inside users heads with new capabilities to track and analyse their behaviour across the social network. Not content with collecting huge troves of data about users’ lives outside of Facebook, executives want new capabilities to track users’ minute interactions with the service itself. New technology would allow them to start collecting

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Nigeria’s Rising Illiterate Population Dangerous, Says Peterside

  The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Dakuku Peterside, has said the country should be worried about its rising illiterate population. Peterside, in a statement yesterday, said a World Bank report on the situation should be taken seriously. Nigerians, the report said, “are relatively poor, with about 46 per cent of

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