(By Adekunle S. Ogunbadejo)
The position of an engineer in the society can sometimes be a controversial one. Truth be told, engineers have greatly improved the world we live in. They have made tremendous […]

Whether you are a current online learner or you are looking to become one, you know that online learning can be a bit different than taking a class in a more traditional classroom. While the “don’ts” of this […]

The urge to conform to their peers is a normal stage for kids ranging in age from about 12 to 21. At this stage, children start looking to their peers — not their parents — to help figure out everything from […]

 
Commercial Arithmetic
The range of topics that we call commercial arithmetic is used mainly in business transactions and they include rates, ratios, proportions, instalments and percentages. The knowledge of […]

 
Approximation and Errors
Approximations are very useful when calculating. Numbers can be approximated to varying degrees in order to obtain rough estimates of calculations.
Example: If the tax deducted f […]

Below is an open letter addressed to His Excellency, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, on the issue of sexual harassment and corruption by Lagos State University (LASU) lecturers.
Dear Sir,
The issue of […]

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has given a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the strike, embarked upon by university lecturers.
Mr. […]

A 17-year-old won a science fair and he may have also changed the way that the flu is treated in the process.
California resident Eric Chen took home the grand prize Monday at the Google Science Fair for his […]

Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced tha […]

A rift that has torn students of Nigerian institutions of higher learning manifested itself at the University of Lagos when protesters organised by the Joint Campus Committee (JCC) of the National Association of […]

 
The moon just got younger – by a few hundred million years.
Scientists now claim that the moon is around 4.4 and 4.45 billion years old, rather than the 4.56 billion years previously thought.
Despite being the […]

World-wide, the International Literacy Day (ILD) was celebrated by UNESCO a couple of weeks ago on September 8th. This year, the focus was pointed towards ‘Literacies For The 21st Century’. We know that the lite […]

Despite all the warnings and taboos in certain social circles, there seems to be an increase in the number of tattoo demands by young adults. Not surprisingly, with the rise of tattoos, we see a rise in demand […]

The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions will be wholly computer-based by 2015, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said.
The registrar of JAM […]

You don’t need me to tell you that the Internet has become a pervasive global network of people and machines that is beginning to mediate all human interactions. But, just for a second, think about how different […]

Parenting comes with huge responsibilities. The second most important decision you will make as a parent — apart from deciding to have the kid in the first place — is deciding which school for them to enrol in. […]

(By Taiwo Akinlami)
A recent United Nation’s Survey reveals that never in the history of our world have the children of the world been exposed to the kind of abuse they are exposed to today. ‘A shocking pic […]

(By Benjamin Stewart)
As an educator, what does it mean to share? We tell our children at home to do it. We tell our kids at school to do it. We’d even be hard pressed to find an educator who didn’t outright arg […]

I’m sure most of you know that excessive salt consumption can cause high blood pressure, which in turn can lead to heart problems. However, what you might not realise is just how many more problems salt can […]

(By Folksy)
Bullying has become a worldwide epidemic, and it needs to be prevented as much as possible. All you need to do is a quick internet search to find horrific stories of how bullies have devastated the […]