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Reclaim Your Happiness! WATCH Shonda Rhimes’ TED Talk on Her “Year of Yes”

This is so emotional and motivational for me, and I just wanted to share it with you guys like it got me wanting to write SAT and apply for computer science and writing in John Hopkins! TV show creator (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder)Shonda Rhimes gave an inspirational TED talk about saying yes – she forced herself to say “Yes” for a year – to more play and doing more things to make herself happy. This talk was filmed in February 2016. You can watch or read the transcript below! (more…)

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DSS OFFICER SHOOTS INNOCENT UNIVERSITY OF JOS STUDENT

What is going on in Nigeria ?  Too many educated illiterate are out there....  Hezekiah Paul, a student of University of Jos was shot dead yesterday by an agent of the Department of State Security. Hezekiah was on a three months Industrial attachment in a shop on Ahmadu Bello Way of Jos when was shot dead by the officer. The officer and some others had come to arrest one John Dan whose offence has not been disclosed. On sighting the gun wielding DSS officers, Paul out of fear and apprehension attempted to run but a DSS official chased him and shot him at close range.

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Medical Students In Nigeria to Spend 11 Years in University – NUC

Medical students in Nigeria have been mandated by the National Universities Commission to spend eleven years in the university. According to the Punch, this mandate was made during the lecture “Development of Medical Education: Prospects and Challenges”, presented by Professor Chiedu Mafiana on behalf of the commission’s Executive Secretary Professor Julius Okojie at the maiden matriculation and inauguration of the University of Medical Science, Ondo State. (more…)

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Pope Francis to declare Mother Teresa a Saint on September 4th

Pope Francis will on September 4th this year declare Mother Teresa of Kolkata a Saint. Mother Theresa who is affectionately known as the "saint of the gutter" for her unconditional ‎love ‎for the poor, abandoned and marginalized, was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II after being attributed to a first miracle, answering an Indian woman's prayers to cure her brain tumor, according to the Vatican. Pope Francis officially cleared Mother Teresa for sainthood on Dec. 17th last year after her "miraculous healing" of a Brazilian man with multiple brain abscesses, the Vati