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Ebola Fears: Lawmakers To Re-examine Schools’ Resumption Date

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House of Representatives has asked its Committee on Education to take another look at the issue of resumption date for private and public primary/secondary schools in the country. The directive was necessitated by growing concern among the public, especially parents and guardians of the students, following the recent decision by federal education authorities to re-open

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Ebola scare at OAU as student brought to Lagos for screening

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Academic and social activities at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, were yesterday paralysed following a report that one of the students, who had been on admission at the university’s teaching hospital, manifested signs of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. The management of the institution, however, said the student had been evacuated to Lagos, where she would

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2015 UTME: JAMB commences sale of application forms

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, yesterday, announced the commencement of the sale of 2015 application form that will start the full implementation of computer based test, CBT, in the 2015 universal tertiary matriculation examination, UTME . In a press release signed by the registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, he said candidates are

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The Truth About Alcohol… And Why Teens Should Avoid Taking It

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Excessive consumptions of Alcohol may harm one’s life in several ways. Alcohol can destruct the person’s mental, emotional and physical health. It also affects one’s relationships. Alcohol makes the person addicted as well as directs a person towards a dangerous path. The risk of several health diseases such as liver and heart disease increases due

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Why Every Teen Needs to Learn How to Code

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I’ve recently been on this self reflecting mode about the future of our education system for some time now and believe that coding is going to be a huge part of our students’ lives. I say this because, more than ever, the internet and technology has been a huge part of how we learn, gather

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#PNN E-Mentoring (Yoma Victor): Why You Should Stay With Your Childhood Dreams – 2

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Continued from last week Someone I respect a lot said this “genius is childhood discovered!”, he meant that if you wanted to be a genius at anything in this world, go back to your childhood. Why would he say that? Simply because in your childhood you develop the greatest, grandest, seemingly impossible ideas. You are

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Edo State needs more than science teachers – Odemwingie

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(By Tommy Odemwingie) I have seen – and experienced – the worst and best of education in Nigeria. Being a beneficiary of the Awolowo-inspired free education programme in the defunct Western Region, I experienced learning under a mango tree, before graduating to learning in an uncompleted classroom. Part of my secondary education – at the

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Cool: The Ebola vaccine works!

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New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way. Some healthy people are rolling up their sleeves at the National Institutes of Health for the first human safety study of this vaccine in

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Incredible: Scientists demonstrate First brain-to-brain human communication (Video)

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Telepathy is a staple of science fiction–just think of Mr. Spock or the Jedi knights. But new research shows that mind-melds no longer belong only to the world of make-believe. An international team of scientists demonstrated what they call the first direct brain-to-brain communication, sending the words “hola” and “ciao” between two people thousands of

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