ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
Ecowas is a sub-region organization formed by fifteen West African countries in 1975. Lagos was originally its headquarters before it was moved to Abuja. It now […]

Grammatical Structure: Direct and Indirect Speech
The word ‘reported’ is often used for the second type; but the truth is that we can ‘report’ EITHER by using ‘direct speech’ OR by using ‘indirect speech’. The […]

Introduction
An algebraic function is a function that can be written using a finite number of the basic operations of arithmetic (i.e., addition, multiplication, and exponentiation). In order to take the […]

What is Acquisition of Business?
Business Acquisition is the process of buying a company to build on strengths or weaknesses of the company making the purchase. It can also be defined as a corporate action in […]

Clause: Subordinate and Insubordinate
A subordinate clause (or dependent clause) is a clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought.
A subordinate clause is […]

Sunlight is often called white light, since it is a combination of all the visible colors. Since the index of refraction is different for each color, the angle of refraction will be different for each color when […]

What is a Prefix? 
To understand what a prefix is, it is imperative to first understand what a root word is. That said, a root word is a word that can be changed into a new word by adding a beginning and/or an […]

Large Scale Retailing

Large scale retail trade has a large scale of operation; the retailers achieve their growth by increasing the physical size of their units to cater for more customers. Examples of large […]

Meaning of Citizenship
Citizenship can simply be defined as the legal right that a person has, to belong to a particular country. It is a situation whereby an individual becomes a legitimate member of a country, […]

What is Mixture?
A mixture consists of more than one element or compound. The components of a mixture can be separated by physical methods. A mixture is a material system made up of two or more different s […]

Introduction
Matter is defined as anything that occupies space and has mass. The particles of matter could be atoms, molecules or ions.

It is important to note that the particles that make up all matter vary […]

Definition of Computer Output Devices 
Computer Output Devices are various types of computer hardware which uses data and commands from the computer itself to perform assigned  tasks. In other words, the out […]

History of Computer
The development of the first counting device has been dated to ancient times, a man called abacus used a counting device about 3000 years ago and from this time and man has continued to […]

What is Reproduction?
Reproduction is defined as the ability of living organisms to give rise to new individuals of the same species. The purpose of reproduction is to ensure the continuity of life.
Sexual […]

Concept Of Culturing

Culturing simply involves the techniques of growing micro-organisms in special media in the laboratory. It involves the making of sterile medium, inoculating, incubating and […]

PUZZLE: A basket contains five apples. Share the apples among five children such that each one gets an apple and one apple stays in the basket!

This is a simple puzzle. But only geniuses can answer it correctly. Can you give it a try?

PUZZLE: “You tear off my skin, but I do not cry. Instead you do! What am I?”

Rounding off Numbers
To ’round off’ or ‘approximate’ a number to a desired degree of accuracy, we-

a. round the number up if the next digit is 5 or more

b. round the number down if the next digit is le […]

What are Computer Viruses?
Computer viruses are small software programs that are designed to spread from one computer to another and to interfere with computer operation. A virus might corrupt or delete data on […]

Introduction to how the Internet Works
On the internet, data and information are transferred world wide through the servers and clients (which are computers) connected to the internet.

The computers which are […]