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Tips for actualising your Dreams.....

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Anytime I see old men and women still labouring hard to survive in their late 60's and 70's, I kind of ask myself this question, what did they use their youthful period for? Truth be told, the best time you can dream and pursue your dream earnestly is now. Below are lists of tips that are needful in actualising your goals: 1) Acquire the necessary knowledge you ought to acquire as a youth. 2) Create time to explore your mind and take necessary actions in pursuit of your dreams. 3) Get rid of any form of thing or person that tends to waste your time, remember, you can't retrieve wasted time. 4) Take time out to think about what you really want to do. 5) Start building an empire now, great men started somewhere. 6) Quit taking actions that will one way or the other paralyze your dreams. 7) Be creative, be an innovator, it's your brain think with it. 8) Give whatever it will take to achieve your dream, there is no wasted effort when you truely decide to pursue you...

ASUU Strike: The journey so far!

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ASUU strike took off August 13, the union embarked on the indefinite strike stating the failure of the federal government to honour aspects of past agreements of it members alongside other things. Throughout the period of the ongoing strike, several meetings have been held between the ASUU union and the federal government in which the first ever organised meeting  resulted in deadlock. Meanwhile, the latest report about the ongoing ASUU strike states that, the three non-academic staff unions in the public universities which comprises of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU; and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, have however declared an indefinite strike starting on Monday, September 11. The commencement of the strike was made by the Chairman of Joint Action Committee of the associations who is also the President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke. Samson made this known at a press co...

Exploring Linguistics As a Profession

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Are you part of the many who does not know what Linguistics is all about or probably you have a wrong idea about it , well this little article is composed to explore linguistics as a profession and also give you the right idea about linguistics , just sit right back and enjoy the tour !       Only few know who really a linguist is, or what linguistics as a field is all about. Linguistics as a field employs scientific method to study the various human languages of the world. A person who studies linguistics is referred to as a linguist. There are a lot of speculations and controversies that a linguist is someone who understands and speaks as many languages as possible, this in turn give people the belief that a linguist is a polyglot  (someone versatile in many languages). It should therefore be clearly noted that, a linguist is not necessarily someone who is competent in speaking different languages, we also h...