Students of tertiary institutions in the country have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to end the lingering nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP).
Speaking with the News […]

If you’ve ever wanted to explain to an adult what it’s actually like to live inside the brain of a teenager… there’s a Tumblr for that. Scroll below for 8 memes we love this week from the hilarious website […]

Yesterday, traffic around the Oba Ovoranmwen Square in Benin, Edo State, was held up by curious people who gathered to see how Aghogho Ajine, 20, tested his handmade wooden toy ‘drone’.
The toy, a […]

Topic: An Office
An office is a room in an organisation set aside for clerical activities. The office is the centre of all the clerical activities of the organisation. The principal’s office is an example of an o […]

Sony has delivered another nail in the PC coffin by announcing plans to stop making its personal computers to focus on cameras, smartphones and games consoles.
Amid what it described as ‘drastic’ changes in the […]

The current trend of education technology is nothing to sneeze at. There are iPads and Android devices popping up in classrooms around the world. From BYOD to 1:1 to flipped classrooms, there are a lot of […]

Harriet Chanza of the World Health Organization said that in many cases some parents may actually want their daughters to get pregnant at a young age.
A girl is often married soon after she is found to be […]

For many people, taking notes on a laptop is faster and more legible than scribbling furiously with a pen.
But U.S. scientists have found the modern method could be harmful to academic performance as laptops […]

For two days running, tension continues to mount in Iwo, Osun state as situation at Baptist High School, Iwo yesterday took a new dimension when some students of the school mobilized masquerades to the […]

It’s commonly said that we humans use only about 10 percent of our brains, with some people attributing Einstein’s brilliance to his ability to stretch that paltry figure to 15 percent.
 
But in the video above, […]

The rules of staying fit seem very easy to follow. Eating well, working out, getting enough sleep and you will be the healthiest person, right? Surprisingly, it is more complicated than that. Often the very […]

On its 10th anniversary, we highlight some of the facts and figures related to Facebook, the defining social network of our time.
On this day, February 4, exactly 10 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg turned on […]

“Do scientists pray?”
That’s the question that occupied the thoughts of a sixth-grade Sunday school class at The Riverside Church, and who better to pose it to than one of the best scientific minds of our time, […]

A food safety expert, Dr Malgwi Usman, has advised Nigerians against consuming food sold by roadside vendors to reduce the risk of food and water borne diseases.
Usman, the National Project Coordinator of Food […]

1. The well-travelled-mysterious-but-interesting one – Those are the students who have spent time living somewhere exotic and unexpected. They dress a bit more maturely but no one questions it and immediately […]

 
The process of conceiving a child and its development inside the body of the mother is a very beautiful and amazing phenomenon. Before it takes its first breath, a human baby has to pass through an incredible […]

By very virtue of being human, everyone has experienced infancy and toddlerhood. So why can most adults not remember anything that happened before the age of 3?
Research has suggested that’s because infants […]

Have you ever met anyone who knows everything about anything? They know it all and we mean that not in the negative sense of the term. They are some of the smartest people in the world and they have the IQ […]

A girl whose brain was accidentally injected with glue during treatment at a UK Hospital is to receive a multi-million-pound damages payout after she was left with devastating permanent brain damage.
Despite […]

Think about it: when children are young, they’re encouraged almost constantly to be creative. They tell stories, play make believe and dress up, build forts, and draw pictures. Once they get to school, that f […]