By Ladi Josh President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of an Industrial Equipment and Machinery Development Institute (IEMDI) and a Skill Acquisition Institute for the Borno State. The Executive Vice Chairman of the...
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Appeal Court reverses Adebutu’s nomination as Ogun PDP Gov candidate
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside an earlier judgment of the Federal High Court given in favour of a factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State,...
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NEDC/ Yobe Gov’t Empower 50 Women on Alternative Energy Cooking
The North East Development Commission (NEDC) in collaboration with Yobe State Government have engaged 50 women on climate change awareness, adaptation and alternative energy cooking. The workshop took place at the lecture theatre of...
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Buni administration will support NACOS- Bego assures
The Yobe State Commissioner for Wealth Creation Empowerment and Employment Generation, Hon Abdullah Bego has assured the National Association of Computing Students (NACOS) that the Mai Mala Buni administration would provide the necessary support...
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The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate.
Among design professionals, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the filler text. Controversy, as in Death to Lorem Ipsum. The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate. To some, designing a website around placeholder...
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McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that
As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De Finibus which challenges McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of lorem ipsum was as...
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how did the classical Latin become so incoherent?
So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero’s De Finibus in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type...
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Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College
Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate...
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The purpose of lorem ipsum is to create a natural
The purpose of lorem ipsum is to create a natural looking block of text (sentence, paragraph, page, etc.) that doesn’t distract from the layout. A practice not without controversy, laying out pages with meaningless filler text can...
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