Retiring the Black Writing Boards It was only about 15 years ago the whiteboards and fancy markers with different colours entered the Nigerian educational system. Back then in my school and most schools, we had blackboard prefects; the pupil had to be tall and have sufficient strength to rob, scour and scrub off the scribbles
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The cap of coca cola soda drink was automatically called “counter” in my childhood because most of us at my age range had a bag full of this caps that aided us with counting, we used our fingers and toes and soon ran out of options when we got to 21 after counting all fingers
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As the last Moorish King of Granada, Sultan Mohammed and his family went into exile, forced into this situation by the advancing army of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile who were on a quest to reclaim Spanish land from the Moors – North African Muslims of Berber and Arabian descent. Legend has it
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If you want to win a quiz, one of the best things you can do to prepare is to read newspapers everyday. A good quizmaster will use the media as a benchmark for what contestants are likely to know and what he’s likely to throw them. Getting into the habit of reading widely will help
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Do a little test. Type your name into the Google Search bar and see what it brings back. Chances are if you have done the good, bad, and ugly and left those memories on the internet, that you will find them. Just ask Ray Jay and Kim Kardashian, the internet never forgets! Google, for example,
The Gregorian calendar is today’s internationally accepted civil calendar and it’s also known as the “Western calendar” or “Christian calendar”. It was named after the man who first introduced it in February 1582: Pope Gregory XIII. The calendar is strictly a solar calendar based on a 365-day common year divided into 12 months of irregular
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