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Boko Haram: Jonathan orders tight security in educational facilities

President Goodluck Jonathan  has directed the Armed Forces, Police and other national security agencies to strengthen security around educational facilities in states prone to terrorist attacks. The President also condemned the attacks on two mosques in Potiskum, Yobe State on Tuesday. Reacting to the suicide bombing of the Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies yesterday, President Jonathan said: “No amount of intimidation and violence would stampede the government into abandoning its goal of giving education a new lease of life and opening up access to all young Nigerians who wish to improve themselves”. According to the president, “the callous attacks on soft targets fully affirm that the terrorists are nothing but blood-thirsty adherents of a warped and retrogressive ideology. “President Jonathan condemns the repeated targeting of worshippers, and innocent students who are the nation’s future by depraved terrorists. “No amount of intimidation and...

Electronic Games

Electronic game quiz What is the average age of electronic game players? 18 30 What is the gender breakdown of electronic game players? 55 percent male; 45 percent female 15 percent male; 85 percent female Of these two groups, which one makes up the significantly greater portion of the game- playing population? Females 18 and older Males 17 and younger Answers (based on 2013 data):

PORTRAITS FROM THE PAST - Robert Boyle

History buffs might remember Robert Boyle as the scientist who gave his name to Boyle’s law —a natural law that sets out the connection between pressure and volume in gases. His momentous discovery laid the basis for countless scientific developments that followed. But Robert Boyle was more than an able man of science.   BOYLE was born into a wealthy family at Lismore Castle, in Ireland, in 1627. That was near the beginning of what historians call the age of reason —a time when thinking men tried to free mankind from the fanaticisms that had enslaved the human race for centuries. Boyle shared that goal. In an autobiography of his early years, he gave himself the name Philaretus, meaning “Lover of Virtue.”

Nigerians plead for foreign help as Ebola spreads

LAGOS – Standing just a few hundred metres from the Lagos hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola, John Ejiofor pleaded for the world to help contain a spread of the virus raging across west Africa.

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Medieval Masters of Mechanics

  AUTOMATION has taken over industry —especially the routine and repetitious tasks. But when did automatic, programmable devices first appear on the scene? Was it just a couple of centuries ago during Europe’s industrial revolution? You may be surprised to learn that automatic machines were invented much earlier.