Baba Umar, the Chairman of Kano state task force, revealed on Wednesday the shutting of 69 private schools due to their inability to meet the educational standards and functioning under bad conditions.
“The 6 […]

(By Jeff Dunn)
Getting online is easy. Finding a few resources is relatively easy. Finding useful (and real) people who can truly benefit your learning is quite difficult. That’s probably why there is such a b […]

 
Usher can dance his way into anything: music charts, women’s hearts, red carpets and his latest, dancing into the alphabet! The Grammy award R&B singer has never lost his dance moves, may never will, and he ha […]

The fear of bad luck really can be reversed by carrying out rituals like touching wood and throwing salt, according to a new study.
Touching wood is the most common superstition in Western culture used to […]

 
For 17 years, dating was a big, scary unknown to me. I’d never had a boyfriend or a hook-up. As a Christian from a conservative Korean family, I made a promise to God to stay a virgin until marriage.
So I wa […]

 
(By Alice Martin)
Gone are the days when academic institutes used to shy from integrating current technology into their education system. Now, almost every school, college and university in US, UK and other […]

As a species, we tend to remember inventions as the things that changed history. Fire, agriculture, architecture, the printing press, electricity, all of these led to immense leaps forward for humanity.
But […]

Preparation and Issuing of Receipts
Roles of Wages and Salaries Office
In every establishment, the preparation of the salaries and wages of employees is the responsibility of someone or a group of persons w […]

 
(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 […]