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Staying Safe During The Forthcoming Elections in Nigeria: Tips and Precautions

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Elections in Nigeria are often characterized by heightened tensions, and the risk of violence and unrest is always present. In order to stay safe during elections, it is important to be aware of potential risks and take precautions to protect yourself. It has been projected that the level of violence in the coming election would be at an all-time high especially because of the prevailing economic and social strain that the citizens are facing. Here are some safety tips to help you stay safe during the forthcoming elections in Nigeria. Plan Ahead Before election day, plan your route to the polling station and make sure you know where the nearest police station or security post is located. Also, make sure to inform your family or friends about your plans and whereabouts. This will help ensure that you have a clear plan in place and that people know where you are in case of an emergency. Stay Informed Keep yourself updated on the election process and any news related to security concerns....

WHAT CHATGPT HAD TO SAY ABOUT QHUB AND PAST QUESTIONS IN GENERAL

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   Hello Guys It’s been a while, yea! coming back to work/school or real life after the holidays took a lot of waking up from the euphoria, it was the same for me as well but yea we are back and ready to crack the year wide open.  One major trend from late last year and into this year 2023 is the exciting product that OpenAI rudely dropped on us. I'm talking about the almighty ChatGPT. A product that got over a million users in less than a month of launch. I am careful to say I’m one of the early adopters of this game-changing product. I have used it to handle several projects and it has been a major companion since returning from my holiday trips. One fundamental question I asked the AI is the importance of past question usage for tertiary institution students in preparation for their exams and he(Yes he, I have also named him we both agreed to call him Philip) had this to say : “Past exam questions can be a valuable study tool for tertiary institution students as they p...

How I Prepared and Still FAILED An Exam at Uni!

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  This would be very brief, my name is Boye. I remember in my 3rd year at uni I had this course called Operational and Quantum Mathematics (Math 324). At the beginning of the semester, the course was somehow. I missed the first two classes (The lecturer was the type that would hit the ground running at the beginning of every semester- bloody ITK) but I had my buddies Tamara and Mayowa explain the classes to me more than once, yet my knowledge was still not grounded coupled with the fact that as we progressed into the semester this course began to unveil weird levels of difficulties, so I had zero confidence in my knowledge of this course but I gave a front of “master of knowledge”. Well, I soon got exposed as the first test came and I failed like a woeful cat. 2 /15 was a major stain on my reputation. I couldn’t allow any evidence of this evil fail to exist, so I destroyed the script and cleared my brain of the memory, this was done before I had cried and yelled at myself for being...

Why Are African Students Heavily Marginalized

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Why have we marginalized African students so much, especially at the tertiary level? Their central pain point is acquiring new knowledge (specialized), and internalizing this knowledge well enough so that when they are asked in an exam or test, they are able to communicate this knowledge back clearly and concisely to earn themselves good grades and graduate ‘colorfully’. But we don’t create solutions to help make this focal pain point easy for them rather we have abandoned them to be ravaged and ‘figure shit out by themselves’ meanwhile; we focus our energies on creating technologies that make our marketplace more in sync with the global marketplace while we neglect our future Africans to wallow and be submerged in failures after failure until their innate power is lost to self-doubt and they are pushed to embrace mediocrity as their best bet. Let me put this in a more practical context; the girl that would spearhead the first all-African moon landing is probably somewhere in a unive...

How My Distraction Led Me To A Higher CGPA

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  Am I a Cabin Biscuit…? So, I had a thing for Dr. Stare (pseudonym) We all have that friend who gets excited about the weirdest things and finds amazement in the little things. Wait let me give examples; she will sit and meticulously watch kids create paper toys with deep admiration, she has an indescribable attraction to deep intelligence and excellence, and your choice of vocabulary around her lands you in the classification of ‘Friend able’ and ‘The Others’, astonishingly she says “It is not about the sophisticated choice of words but about the uncommon use of words”. The round-up is that this friend is weird but you love them anyway. Yep! That’s me. It turns out I have some similarities with your friend and I have opened with this to gist you about Dr. Stare my 300-level lecturer. I’ve been described severally as a hopeless romantic. That is, my condition when it comes to romance is ghastly hopeless, there’s literally no hope for hope. I fall anyhow, anytime, and with anyt...

MY UNIVERSITY STORY (PART 1) - I WAS ALMOST ASKED TO DROPOUT

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My friend and I Molawa attended Uni together and to this day we will always chat about the difficult times we had at Uni I will briefly share one of such difficult times with you in this short article. To start with, we attended one of the Ivy League private Unis in the country so there were a lot of demands; socially, academically, morally, spiritually, economically, and all other types of ‘allies’.  Despite all the pressures and distractions our major pain point like with any real university student was achieving good grades at the end of every semester, and this was a big struggle for us, not because our course of study was difficult like Physics or any type of engineering, neither is it in the same difficulty level as Economics or Accounting or Business Administration. It was a course that studies the human mind but unlike many of our colleagues our minds were absent from many of the classes hence very little was clear about the modules and no questions were asked. A little bac...

READ THIS BEFORE YOU START PREPARING FOR YOUR UNI EXAMS

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  Hi there, I'm Babafemi, an Industrial Physics 3rd-year student, and like you, I dread examinations. The wicked anxiety I feel before and after each exam makes examination time my least favorite time in school. This anxiety often affected my performance at least until I discovered the solution that worked for me last semester I call it the PQCS, short for Past Questions, Community, and Scheduling. This is how it works; I practice a lot of past questions and sometimes simulate examination situations by adhering to a strict start and finish time. I connect with a community of students and subject experts to share relevant information about each subject and finally, I subscribe to an intelligent individual and group study schedule this means that I study at my peak time with little or no distractions.   I honestly feel better about exams, but they are still my least favorite school activities.   I wish everyone having exams all the best... be relaxed it’s never th...