Cool facts 10

Do you know that;

Men can listen to a male friend for ages, but he can only listen to his girlfriend or spouse for 6 minutes

A "brownout," when you get drunk & don't recall portions of your night until someone refreshes you

"Aquabob," an underwater blowjob

"Bae" is the Danish word for "poop"

Lovers that sculpt each other into better pple tend to be happier

Beyoncé can run a mile while singing, which helps her to perform on stage without becoming exhausted

In Nigeria, some people believe that children who eat eggs will turn into thieves

In 2014 alone, smokers lit up over 5.8 trillion cigarettes

Even Al-Qaeda has denounced the actions of ISIS as anti-Islamic

All mammals including Humans normally take up to 21 seconds to peep

The number of princes in Saudi Arabia is estimated to be at least 7000

At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent

Lake Superior, The largest body of fresh water in the world

An earthquake on 16 Dec 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards

Bananas don't grow on trees but on rhizomes

The Black plague destroyed half the population of Europe in the 14th Century

60% of all university graduates in Saudi Arabia are Saudi women

Sharks, like most animals, swim toward storms

If you'd like to be perceived as more powerful, place your hands on top of a table or desk

The Dalai Lama was on the CIA's payroll from the late 1950s until 1974, reportedly receiving $180,000 a year

Dieting could force your brain to eat itself, scientists say

March 31st 1889: 300m high Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris

The 1st hard drive for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5MB

Nigeria is the most populous Black nation & the 7th most populated nation in the entire world, trailing after
—from least to most— Pakistan, Brazil, Indonesia,
USA, India & China (1.3bn)

The soda 7-up was created in 1929

'7' because the original containers were 7 ounces
'Up' indicated the direction of the bubbles

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The custom of fooling friends on April 1st began in the late 1500's in which country? Holland, France, or Italy?

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Nigeria made it to 2014 Hult Prize of $1,000,000

NIGERIA’S flag bearer in the sixth Annual Hult Prize, the American University of Nigeria has advanced to the regional finals of the competition, which winners will receive $1,000,000 in startup funding.

This year there were more than 4, 000
applications from among which the AUN team, which comprises of Hafsat Adamu, Blessing Douglas, and Lucy Okonkwo was offered a place to compete. AUN’s team is the only one from Nigeria to advance to the Dubai stage of the
competition.

“Part of what qualified us is our university’s development mission and commitment to fostering development in our region and the continent, together with the students’ strong, longstanding record of academic excellence and
community engagement,” said AUN’s President Margee Ensign, An instructor in Business & Entrepreneurship, Fardeen Dodo, who coached last year’s team, said the competition will enrich the students’
college experience.

“Besides the competition, students will benefit from several workshops, networking, and entrepreneurial learning events run by a number of professionals and trail-blazing global experts, including Stuart Fleming of Enviroserve, Garett
Awad of the Scholl Centre of Entrepreneurship, Ali Edrissi of JP Morgan (UK), and Khaled Gazawi, the CEO of Grameen-Jameel.”

Dodo who added that the step attained so far by the students was “…demonstration of how far our students are ready to go, to action up our vision of development and commitment to addressing the longstanding social challenges that confront Nigeria and Africa at large.”

In partnership with President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative, the innovative programme aims to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges.

Student teams compete in six cities around the world for a chance to secure the $1m prize money meant to launch a sustainable social venture.

The 2015 Hult Prize will focus on building
start-ups that provide sustainable, high quality, and early education solutions to 10 million children under the age of six in urban slums and beyond by 2020.

This year’s challenge was selected and set by former American president, Bill Clinton, who said, “The Hult Prize is about
more than the solution to the problem; it’s about how the world has to work in the 21st century.”

In his remarks, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of the Hult Prize Foundation, Ahmad Ashkar said, “Servicing the world’s poorest through profitable and sustainable enterprise is not just good for the world; it’s great business.

Our pioneering platform builds
ecosystems by leveraging crowd and we
couldn’t be happier that the American University of Nigeria will be joining our mission with their participation in the 6th annual Hult Prize.”

The Hult Prize gives entrepreneurs from around the world a platform to innovate and revolutionize the way society thinks about servicing the poor.

Each team selected was
chosen from more than 20, 000 applications received from over 500 colleges and universities in over 150 countries. The Hult Prize regional final competitions will take place on March 13
and 14, 2015, in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai. The AUN Hult team will compete in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

Following the regional finals, one winning team from each host city will move into a summer business incubator, where participants will receive mentorship, advisory, and strategic planning training as they create prototypes and set-up to launch their new social business. 

A final round of competition will be hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative at its annual meeting in September this year, where CGI delegates will select a winning team, and the prize to be personally awarded by Clinton, who described, the Hult Prize as “a wonderful example of the creative cooperation needed to build a world with shared opportunity, shared responsibility, and shared prosperity, and each year I look forward to seeing the many outstanding ideas the competition produces.”

To learn more, visit www.hultprize.org

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50% Pass English & Mathematics says NECO

THE National Examinations Council has released the November/December 2014 results with the examination body saying there is remarkable improvement when
compared its previous examinations.

The results show 52.94 per cent credit pass in English Language and 55.37 per cent credit pass in Mathematics.

Registrar and the Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Promise Nwachukwu Okpala, while announcing the results at the council’s national headquarters in Minna, Niger State, on Wednesday, noted that the results were an improvement on the previous exams conducted between 2011 and 2014.

Okpala said that 63,445 candidates registered for the examinations, out of which 61,386 actually sat for the papers with 30.57 per cent of the candidates recording five credits and above.

An analysis of the other core subjects showed that 53,848 candidates sat for Biology with 26,947 pass credit level, representing 50.04 per cent; Chemistry had 28,250 candidates with 14, 858 pass at credit level, representing 51.62 per cent; 28,222 sat for Physics with 57 pass at credit level, representing 0.20 per cent.

Also, 1,753 candidates sat for Further Mathematics and 395 passed at credit level, representing 22.53 per cent; and Agricultural Science had 41,080 candidates with 12,006 pass at credit level, representing 29.22 per cent.

The registrar said 620 cases of malpractices were recorded. Okpala urged students to shun all forms of examination malpractices, saying the council had consistently made attempts to eradicate examination malpractices.

Top in the World Award 2014

British International School (BIS), a center of Outstanding Academic Excellence has been recognized by Cambridge Examination as a student of BIS,Lagos has been recognized top in 2014 Cambridge Examination series taken by learners in more than 9000 schools in 160 countries for excellent performance. Miss Eseosa Jennifer Idemudia received two awards;

'Top in the World' award for achieving HIGHEST MARKS WORLDWIDE in IGCSE  Economics


Also, IGCSE Business Studies in the June 2014 Cambridge examination.

The British International School, said that the awards recognised the talent, dedication and commitment of both learners and staff.

Taqwa School shines at global event, harps on research, technical skills

THE importance of research and technical skill acquisition among Muslim schools was recently stressed, as Taqwa Group of Schools lifted Nigeria’s image at the just-concluded international World Robot Olympiads, (WRO), competition held in Sochi, Russia.

The school represented Nigeria at the world stage after clinching the first position at the National Robotic Olympiads in the country.

The Managing Director, Taqwa Schools, Alhaja Maryam Alimi, who expressed her excitement about the feat, described the atmosphere in the schools as that of “complete education”.

According to her, it was a deserved honour for the school and students to have participated in a unique and important event organized for young inventors and constructors because it will
prepare them as future scientists and
researchers, who will surely make our world a better place and a more technologically- advanced nation.

Alimi also emphasised the need for Nigerians to pay more attention to the development of research and technical skills among children and young people.

“That is why besides the competition, Taqwa Schools engage the students in many other educational events expositions, cultural, research and entertainment,” she said.

The final competition in Russia brought
together participants from all over the world with great victories and spectacular ideas.

About 52 countries participated in the
competition. One of the participants, AbdulKadir Sayyidi, revealed that being part of the competition really helped in building his confidence. He, therefore,
called on other students to join the robotic club to increase their creative skills.

Also speaking, Ruqoyah Falade, a Basic5
pupil of the school said she was, indeed, elated to be among other participants from other countries all over the world and interact freely with them.

The Principal, Taqwa High School, Hajia
Qudrah Olaleye, stated that it is part of the school’s policy to involve the students in as many beneficial competitions as possible in order to build their physical and mental ability.

“It is a thing of joy to be part of the world
event. They took part last year, too, and it has been a good exposure for the students. We are the only Muslim school there and we were determined to win.”

She urged parents to give the needed support to help the children achieve their future careers.

She said: “In Taqwa Schools, it has never
been only academics as usual, the psychomotor domain of education was also given preference and we are very proud as we raised the bar by winning the Lagos State Private Schools Table Tennis “Talent Hunt” organized by Atico Global Concepts in May, 2014 with Gold Medal.

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N133m debt delays Cross River's SSCE results (WAEC )

FOR over a year, the West African Examination
Council, (WAEC) has withheld the May/June
2013/2014 SSSE results of students in Cross
Rivers State following the state’s inability to
complete payment of its statutory examination
fees.

Following this development, students in the
state cannot process their admission documents
into various higher institutions in the country
and the Labourt Party (LP) in the state has
decried the situation as “embarrassing and
unacceptable” accusing the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) led government in the state of
being insensitive to education and the plight of
Cross Riverians.

Addressing a rally of massive supporters of LP
in Ikom on Monday, the party’s Senatorial
candidate for Cross River Central, Dr. Sandy
Onor described the development as very
frustrating to both students and their parents,
noting that “children wrote WAEC since last year
and till today, they have not seen their results
because the government in Cross River has
deliberately refused to pay WAEC.

“Why should government be the one thwarting
educational progress of our young ones? The
same government that claims to be bankrupt
and cannot pay token for students’ results to be
released is the same government spending
billions of Naira to conduct simple party
primaries.

“Our state is no more the cleanest in the
country because dirt has taken over. Salaries
are owed and people are suffering. Where are
we heading? We have come to liberate Cross
Rivers from slavery.”

One of the affected students who simply gave
her name as Mary, said, “this government is not
sensitive to our plight. Imagine how they are
making us suffer. I know if it was a political
matter that affects them the government will
immediately rush and get money to pay.
“ I have admission into the university, but
without the SSSE result to present, I cannot go
anywhere. Please the government should come
to our rescue because this is not healthy for us
and the state”.

The State’s Commissioner for Education,
Professor Offiong Offiong admitted that the
state was “owing WAEC N133 million and we
have paid them N108 million and the balance is
N25 million which the Accountant General says
he is making efforts to pay. So that is the
situation”.
The LP has accused the PDP led government in
the state of not giving priority to education but
Professor Offiong said, “I cannot comment on
that and I am not the one that controls the
treasury of the state. I don’t know where they
(LP) are getting their information but I think
that everybody in the state has seen that even
salaries have been delayed. The thing did not
start now. It is a problem that has been trailing
us for up to a period of one year now. The
politics is just starting in the last one month or
two. So this problem has been with us for some
time now”.

For the students who are disturbed, he said,
“we have appealed to them through the Parents
Teachers Association (PTA), through their
principals because this is a matter that is
beyond the Ministry. The state is passing
through some serious financial crisis, which
calls for understanding by everybody. It is
rather unfortunate, that is the last thing we
would have expected to happen to our schools
at this time, but be it as it may, we are hoping
that we will resolve that this week”.

Written by Anietie Akpan,

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Be healthy as we study for a better future..

As a sick Bay is essential to every learning environment, so are the availability of adequate equipments and instruments in the sick bay. May & Baker Nigeria Plc. celebrating its 70th years since September 4, 1944 as the first Pharmaceutical Company and successful firm so far in Nigeria. Mr. Nnamdi Okafor, the Managing Director says we believe that giving back to the society is the way we can sustain our operations as a business, is by supporting the society that has trusted and supported us through the years.

As we celebrate, these 3 Schools in Lagos these got the equipments and instruments : Central Primary School, Ikeja United African Methodist Primary School, Eleja St. Agnes Primary School, Sabo, Yaba. On Tuesday 2nd of September, 2014. The Managing Director handed over 4 Hospital Beds Examination Couch Two counseling tables Examination Screen Trolley with First aid kits and dressing equipments Medicine Cupboards Set of Water Dispenser Weighing Scale Flat Screen Televisions Two ceiling fans Two air conditioners to the sickbays of to assist the shools with facilities needed for healthcare and emergency cases as it remains a top priority, which the firm tends to extend to other public schools across the country. "The firm is committed to saving lives, a starting point is the lives of children who constitute the future of the country, with believe in giving back to the society is the way we can sustained and support that has trusted and supported us thorugh the years. I'm sure the sickbay will be a pleasant surprise to pupils and parents when the resume school." Said Mr. Okafor. Photos : www.may-baker.com www.shutterstock.com

Our VC deserves it !

On the 27th of August 2014, Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA) haven got its eyes on some Vice Chancellors of our Universities, noticing them that they have distinguished themselves in the areas of specialization especially in Theatre Practice and have assumed certain Leadership Position and are excelling. Prof. Rahamon Bello - Vice Chancellor University of Lagos Prof. Austin Asagba - Vice Chancellor Western Delta University bagged the "DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARDS" at the 27th Annual Convention of SONTA

Theatre Veterans and Academics like Dr. Chris Iyimoga, Prof. Mabel Evwierhoma - Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Abuja were inducted as Fellows of the Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA) While : Chief Fred Agbeyegbe bagged "Artistic Excellence Award" Prince Ifeanyi Eke, the Head Trade Logistics Nigeria Limited bagged "Excellence in Leadership Award" Prof. Duro Oni, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Management Service) UNILAG bagged "Award Honors in Creative Arts".

It was made known at the 27th Annual Convention that Theatre Artists have not performed their roles equitably well, in terms of checkmating the kind of Political rascality that we find in Nigeria. We should have the kind of theatre that will interrogate the kind of gap, that we have in our Political System. Photos: www.dailyindependentng.com www.unilag.edu.ng www.Sonta.org

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) must be achieved

The Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration . All 189 United Nations member states at the time (there are 193 currently) and at least 23 international organizations committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015: 1. To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. To achieve universal primary education 3. To promote gender equality and empower women 4. To reduce child mortality 5. To improve maternal health 6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases 7. To ensure environmental sustainability 8. To develop a global partnership for development

Between 2006 and 2013, the Presidency through the National Teachers Institute (NTI) has successfully train and retrain over 610, 032 Public and Junior Secondary School teachers in their major Subject areas. Teachers your are held in high esteem as the Director General of the National Teachers Institute (NTI) - Dr. Aminu Sharehu said a workshop will be set up to retool teachers and enhance thier Performance and competencies

At least 4,070 teachers will be selected from every Senatorial Districts all over Nigeria, with minimum of 35 nominations each. The search for the best teachers is on going as the selected 4,070 teachers will participate in this workshop coming up in this 2014.

After this programme, Teachers will be aware of current best practices in thier career Performance/ Productivity of Teachers will be enhanced Subject matter content will be better interpreted and understood National Development will be achieved at the long run. Teachers with keen interest to be a part of the transformation process should keep abreast of vital information. Photos : www.nti-nigeria.org www.wikipedia. org www.shutterstock.com