Category: Education

Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging are inflicting tremendous violence on writing and grammar at alarmingly unimaginable scales. The annoying, sometimes frustratingly cryptic, abbreviations that social media have spawned in the...

Global mobile device maker, Nokia at the weekend got behind Nigerian rap musicians in what it called Don’t Break Da Beat campaign, apparently to popularise its two latest Asha range...

Asaba — THE recent closure of 662 private primary and secondary schools in Delta State is causing ripples as the fate of the affected pupils and students hangs in the...

Ile-Ife (Osun) -  The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Tuesday launched a centre of excellence in software engineering built and equipped at a cost of  N600 million. The construction of...

The country’s dream of assembling and patronising its own cars is still alive, says National Automotive Council, NAC. NAC Director-General, Mr. Aminu Jalal, said the country must not give up...

The House of Representatives Tuesday asked  the Federal Ministry of Education to prevail on  universities  not to apply arbitrary  cut-off marks for candidates of the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination...

Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a new kind of flexible sensor...

Microsoft Research Asia has been working on creating software called MoodScope that notes how a user uses his or her phone, and then uses that information to guess that user's...

Designing duo Otto Dieffenbach and Ed Hanley have created radio-controlled planes that can look like your favourite comic book characters.  A small start up company has produced a life-sized radio-controlled...

The federal government has released the cut-off marks for admission to tertiary institutions for the 2013/2014 academic session with students seeking to enter any of the nation’s universities expected to...