The immediate past Education Minister, Mr. Adamu Adamu on Wednesday said that the number of out-of-school children in the country now stood at over 16 million. Adamu, who is also one of the 43 ministerial nominees submitted to the Senate for screening and confirmation stated this while answering questions in the Senate chamber. The new [...]
Professor Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has called on the Federal Government to place an embargo on the establishment of new universities. Oloyede stated this during the 4th convocation lecture of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa state last weekend. The Registrar, in the board’s Weekly Bulletin released by JAMB’s [...]
It is the favourite time for children everywhere, Schools are about to start preparing for the close of session and there is a long break to look forward to. It is time to watch movies and go out and hang out with friends. Yes, it is time for all these things but there are also [...]
Aspilia Africana is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. Aspilia Africana is native to the Africa, Madagascar, and Latin America. It is a common African weed found in fallow land, especially in the forest zone. The flowers of the Aspilia africana have showy yellow florets and the fruits are bristly and hairy. There are several uses [...]
Nigeria is replete with very many wealthy neighbourhoods. Within the city of Lagos alone, several of such neighbourhoods abound; exclusively reserved for the moneyed ones of course! Now this may not be well known to quite a number of teenagers within the city considering how much poverty is rife among the people. Anyway, I suppose [...]
According to someone, there are many small independent states, and some are so tiny that are called microstates. The smallest one of them is the Vatican City (Holy See), it actually occupies only an old quarter with a few buildings and parks in the center of Rome (Italy). Perhaps it is the most unusual [...]
For years, many businesses have been committing a certain percentage of their profit to selected non-profit organisations, but this is usually done as an afterthought - as a kind of charity - and was never part of their business model. And it is in this instance that social enterprises are different from these kind of [...]
A lot of people have locked themselves tightly into a box of norms. They re-echo time and time again that, ‘this is how things are done here” and this inadvertently hampers their innovative ability. According to Wikipedia, Thomas Alva Edison born February 11, 1847 and died October 18, 1931 was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that [...]
You need to be very careful with pride. It can bury itself in your subconscious and sabotage you before you know it. It will permeate your thoughts, words, and actions. Without intending, you will come across as arrogant, conceited, and selfish. These are not qualities that endear people to you. Consider the following principles to [...]
Talk, read and write about it, you can also spell the words out loud. This will allow whatever it is that you are studying to sink deeply into your brain. If you find it difficult to read for long hours at a stretch, break it down into bits. Write as much as you read, it [...]