Nigerian Education Updates

1. Mrs. Kemi Solade died of A. cancer B. shock C. ovarian cancer D.hypertension 2. ________is the principal of Sy. Catherine School ...

Crossing The Bar - Poem Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to...

Purple Hibiscus takes place in Enugu, a city in post-colonial Nigeria, and is narrated by the main character,Kambili Achike. Kambili liv...

  Do you know that Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist? who received the Nobel Prize f...

Chapter II The Mail It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom thi...

Chapter I The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...

"I'm used to it like an eel to skinning" Meaning: "It's nothing new to me. I did it many times" "tal...

"sweep somebody off his/her feet" Meaning: "to make somebody suddenly fall in crazy love with one" "smell a ...

"let somebody off the hook" Meaning: "to let somebody wriggle out at the very last moment (e.g. Saddam Hussein and the S...

"gunboat diplomacy" Meaning: "diplomacy backed by the threat of force" "A pretty pair of shoes." Mean...

"(The) show must go on." Meaning: "Whatever happens, life must continue as before (e.g. independent of somebody's de...

"in the doldrums" Meaning: "in the state of unhappiness and inactivity" "cast pearls before swine" ...

The Simple Future The simple future tense: This page will present the simple future tense: its form and ...

The past continuous: The past continuous , also called past progressive , is used to refer to an action that was continuous (i.e....

The spelling of the simple past form (-ed forms) You will learn the spelling of the simple past form (-ed form.) But before you ...

What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing, a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device ) is the ...