Author: tope_litcaf
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Air Force Comprehensive School was established in 1991 by the military administration in Oyo State. The school commenced operations in the Iyana-Offa, Ibadan facilities of the vacated Teacher’s Training College. Air Force Comprehensive School was at inception very selective in student’s admission and the culture continues till recent times. Management ambition in instilling Spartan discipline…
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Ahmadiyya is an Islamic group headquartered in India, founded by Mirza Ghullam Ahmad with a distinct Islamic ideology which varies considerably with orthodox teachings. Adherents believe Ahmadiyya had a mandate to divest Islam of fanatical beliefs and to return the religion to the true Islamic teachings as practised by Prophet Muhammad. In what is seen…
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Meritocracy is an elite group whose progress is earned with their intellectual prowess, rather than wealth or class privilege. The term also describes the practise of this form of government. Power is vested in meritocrats for having distinguished themselves by success in standardized examinations, as is the case for civil service exams, for instance, or…
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Ade-Ojo Michael is an eminent businessman player of the Nigerian automobile industry. Born on June 14, 1938 at Ilara-Mokin, Ade Ojo had his secondary school education at Imade College, Owo under the headship of Adekunle Ajasin. After a short course in Agriculture, and brief experience at a government ministry, he went to the University of…
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Mona Monkey, scientific name, Cercopithecus mona, is an arboreal, diurnal, omnivorous, frugivorous, social African monkey (called Guenon) with a body length of 32 to 53 cm and a long tail of 67 to 90 cm. The dorsal fur is red-brown to brown-agouti. The ventral surface and buttocks are white. The upper half of the face…
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Money history in Nigeria predates the colonial era and most of the forms of money met the modern criteria for ‘legal tender’, namely scarcity, intrinsic value, and portability. They came in the form of the Manilla, cowry shells, metal pieces and coins, cloth money, and salt cones. They were in different forms/currencies and could be…
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Mongoose, formerly included in the civet family because of its possession of anal scent glands, the mongoose, Herpestidae, called Eta or Kolokolo in Yoruba, is a family of small, predominantly diurnal carnivorous animals with a greyish or brown fur, long body and face, short legs, small rounded ears and tapered snouts. From one of the…