How UNICAL VC, Obi exposed 54 fake graduates mobilised for NYSC
The Director-General, NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by the Director, Information and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa. According to Ahmed, this is in line with the scheme’s continuous efforts to prevent unqualified graduates from getting the NYSC Certificate of national service. He said that the demobilised candidates would be prosecuted accordingly. ADVERTISEMENT
Ahmed said that another 19 candidates who initially registered online for mobilisation have been prevented from service, while four certificates of national service for other culprits were not produced by the scheme.
Innoson produces parade vehicle for Gombe governor within 24 hours
Ahead of the inauguration of his second term in office on Monday, May 29, 2023, Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State requested Innoson Motors to manufacture a parade vehicle for his inauguration ceremony. According to Cornel Osigwe, the Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Vehicle, the governor made the request on Friday, May 26, 2023, and the vehicle was delivered before the inauguration day. Narrating how the vehicle was manufactured within 24 hours on Twitter, Osigwe said after receiving a payment alert from the state government, the company assembled its best hands who worked morning, afternoon and evening to produce the vehicle and deliver it to the Gombe State Government.
Introducing the Longboard Stroller: Half Baby Stroller, Half Skateboard
Good news for hip urban parents: Soon you may not have to push your kids around in a stodgy stroller like regular moms and dads. Instead, you’ll be able to roll along with your pint-sized offspring on a skateboard with a stroller mounted on top of it.
Belgian design firm Studio Peter van Riet has teamed with stroller company Quinny to create an “urban mobility concept with an eye to the future”: the world’s first longboard stroller, which essentially takes a traditional baby stroller and affixes it to the front end of a long skateboard.
Lagos celebrates World Indigenous Peoples Day
The Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Idris Aregbe, said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos, in celebration of World Indigenous Peoples Day. The Lagos edition of the Day was held on Friday at the Freedom Park, Lagos Island, with the theme “The Role of indigenous women in the Preservation and transmission of Traditional Knowledge.” Aregbe said that the World Indigenous Peoples Day, marked globally on Aug.
Malcolm & Marie: Authenticity and appreciation
Trouble in paradise The couple returns home after Malcolm’s big movie premiere, a film he made based on Marie’s real-life struggle with drug addiction. While Malcolm is ecstatic about his theatrical success, Marie is resentful. She is offended by Malcolm’s un-acknowledgement of her during his celebratory speech. Malcolm has the choice to simply apologize and give her credit for her support in his career and their relationship, but he doesn’t.
Mark Ruffalo responds to the comparisons between him and Noah Centineo: 'I wish I was that good look
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Mick Jagger, Who Just Turned 75, Reflects on His Career
The following feature is excerpted from LIFE The Rolling Stones: Their Rock ‘n’ Roll Life.
Of the many things that Mick Jagger has said in public—aside, that is, from the lyrical improvisations and the onstage declarations he has made across more than 2,000 live performances over 56 years—among the more enduring is this bit of bravura from 1975: “I’d rather be dead than sing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45,” he told People magazine.
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Most prodigious of all musical prodigies was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Heifetz Hofmann and Yehudi Menuhin showed a early genius for playing music that others had written but Mozart at four was composing a concerto, spilling ink all over himself. He was not quite six when his father, a Salzburg violinist, bundled him and his sister Nannerl into a coach, started showing them off to the rest of Europe.
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Reinstating the SATs Will Only Make Rich Kids Richer
At America’s wealthiest colleges, the SAT is back with a vengeance, and it’s easy enough to see who will suffer: socioeconomically disadvantaged students of color.
Over the past few weeks, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, and Harvard have all announced that they will require standardized test scores from all applicants next fall after suspending their use during the pandemic.
Between the spring of 2020 and the winter of 2021, the number of four-year universities and colleges with test-optional policies doubled from 713 to 1,350 including, notably, all eight Ivy League schools.