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Achebe spurns Nigerian award and Goodluck

09:46 16.11.2011 | 0 comments

It was an act of hubris, really. When Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan chose to award novelist Chinua Achebe, perhaps Nigeria’s most famous son, one of the country’s top honours, he thought it would be a glowing endorsement of his..
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Unilorin set to bridge gap with Oxford University

The authorities of the Uiversity of Ilorin have finalised the strategies of reducing drastically whatever gap that exists between Unilorin and Oxford University.
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RCCG ENDOWS N50M PROFESSORIAL CHAIR IN UNILAG

The Redeemed Christian Church of Nigeria (RCCG) has endowed a N50 million professorial chair in Mathematics in the University of Lagos.
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14 year old Nigerian author launches first book - The Robotic Tales

It’s 2055 in Russia, and the equal rights movement for Robots led by Klikko is taking off. Klikko’s reasoning is that since robots are as intelligent as humans, surely they should have the same rights? He manages to raise an army of like-minded Robots and they storm Russia, killing..
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Unilorin expels 38 students for failing screening

The authorities of the University of Ilorin have expelled 38 students of the University from various faculties and departments who gained admission into the university through deception and fraud.
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The Importance of Report Cards

I always fill with profound fear the day that report cards were distributed when I was in secondary school. During my nursery and primary school years, the cards were not such a big deal because I had decent grades. My secondary school grades however were another story. They were so bad..
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Your Language and your kids

Nigeria is richer in varied cultural heritage derives from the mixture of its different ethnic groups with western European cultural influences, I think it is good to remind all Nigerians leaving abroad to do with preserving Nigerian languages for our kids but the principles are valid for..
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