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He was an intelligent child with an outstanding performance.

(i) He amassed wealth of experience through traveling he made for the business. (ii) He invested hugely in both material, mental and finance in the business.

He was taken over by pride.

He was the one who was pulling down his business as he rejected instructions will make the business grow.

When five of his workers resigned the same day.

It means something bound to fail or having difficulties.

(i) Adjectival clause (ii) It qualifies the noun "Alani's secretary"

(i) Laurels - awards (ii) Sustenance - assistance (iii) Venture - enterprise (iv) Dwindled - diminished (v) Reputable - renowned (vi) Pompous - arrogant

(i) Some youths engage in armed robbery for the covetous desire. (ii) Unemployment makes some youth engage in armed robbery (iii) Some youths unwilling to work and thereby engage in crimes. (iv) People engage in armed robbery in order to bridge the gap between them and the rich.

(i) Parents should brief up the disciplinary measures meted out to their children. (ii) Basic social amenities should be provided for all to enjoy the valuables of life as it will reduce envy among the youths. (iii) Proper surveillance should be carried out by law enforcement agencies on the crime-prone areas.

My father was the village head of Amanza Kingdom in Jigawa State. He ascended the throne at the age of 27 years old. The throne is ascended by hereditary. It is always the senior male child of the village head that will emerge as the new village head of the Amanza people. When my father was alive, we lack nothing in our house, because all the tributes, fine, dues, booties from war, proceeds from the sales of farmlands and other money generating ventures in the community were handed over to my father. We fed fat from all these, with a merry heart. When my father died, I was crowned the new village head of the Amanza Kingdom. I was so happy that I was going to control all that resources in the kingdom as my father did, when he was alive. Little did I know what my father passed through as the village head of the Kingdom. Numerous land cases, settlement of disputes of all sorts, series of meetings: both day and night, offering of sacrifices before planting seasons, sacrifices before harvesting of yam and new yam festivals, were too cumbersome for me. I hardly sleep with my two eyes closed or have time for my family. Many a time, my wife hardly sees me. My wife eats alone, stays in the house without my company. My children also scarcely see me. One day my last born saw me in the day time eating in the parlour, she ran to the mother and told her mother "One man is eating our food in the parlour". My wife answered her "he is your father". The girl asked the mother why she had never seen me before at home. The mother told her that, she always sleeps when l leave early in the morning and come back late at night when she is fast asleep It is a tough time for me. I used to be very healthy but now, I am sickly I wake up early in the morning and stay throughout the day without resting. Sometimes, I will stay with my cabinet members throughout the night without sleep, deliberating on matters affecting the communities. Despite all the wealth I have as the village head of Amanza Kingdom, l am healthy enough to enjoy my wealth . I have now become a problem for myself and my family. I as a person with great power, a king in my kingdom, I am constantly apprehensive. I cannot find a moment's peace and repose. As a king who has great responsibilities, i am constantly worried and therefore, i don't sleep soundly. I have now come to see why my father was always preoccupied with the affairs of the Amanza Kingdom. I have also experienced it. Therefore, the saying: uneasy lies the head that wears a crown it true, the king has no time for himself.

A WELCOME ADDRESS PRESENTED TO MR. ADETUSA ADEBISI, THE NEW. PRINCIPAL POSTED TO USMAN DAN FODIO MEMORIAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BAUCHI, BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA. BY MUSA KAREEM, THE SENIOR PREFECT OF THE SCHOOL, AT THE SCHOOL HALL ON 9TH JUNE, 2022. Our honoured Principal, Mr. Adetusa Adebisi, The Vice Principal-Academic and Administration, Respected Members of the staff, The Parents-Teachers Association, Fellow students, reolboHrnoel Ladies and Gentlemen, l am very happy and delighted to be given the privilege on a unique occasion like this to present an address of welcome in honour of our new principal, Mr. Adetusa Adebisi, just posted to this school, to continue his good works as administrator of schools in Nigeria. Today marks a new era in the continuity of the administration of this ancient institution. We are greatly honoured to have in our midst a distinguished teacher and school administrator, Mr. Adetusa Adebisi, who has arrived to take up the principalship of this great college. If l am not mistaken, Sir, you are 25th Principal posted to this school, since the inception of this great citadel of learning in 1922, This shows that the school is the oldest among the schools in the state. I regard your acceptance to the headship of this school as indicative of the great interest you have in the welfare of our school. It is a noble gesture of which we are really proud of you. Mr. Adetusa Adebisi, my fellow students and l consider your posting to this college a wonderful privilege. We have therefore, organised this special meeting to express our delight and to give you a warm reception. We heartily welcome you to this great institution of learning. We have followed your career as a school principal with great interest. Your presence in any school has always brought about academic excellence and discipline. We are fully convinced that you have the zeal and talent to nurture the young to greatness. Your posting to our school is, indeed, the beginning of great expectations. We believe that you will find the necessary courage and strength to teach and direct us on to new paths. We are grateful to the State Ministry of Education for sending you to our school. One of the most important areas of need is poor staffing and unqualified teachers in the school. We wish that you laise with the State Ministry of Education in conjunction with the State Secondary Education Board to recruit and post enough and qualified teaching staff in the relevant subject areas to the school. The areas of need are English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Literature in English, Civic Education, Economics, Accounting and others. This will help to improve the performance of the students in both internal and external examinations. For the past years the school had experienced mass failures in West African Senior School Certificate Examinations Council (NECO). We are confident that with you as the principal of our school, we shall overcome the need of the school in this direction. Another important area of need in the school is lack of standard laboratories. Our laboratories are poorly equipped. The teaching of science subjects have become nothing but a shame. The Chemistry laboratories should be separated from the Physics and Biology laboratories. The three core science subjects should have separate science laboratories for effective teachings and leaning of science in the school. In order to improve the standard of education in the great school, therefore the teachers should leave no stone unturned in order to ensure that the students are properly taught. If the students are well taught, they will pass their examinations well and gain admission into universities without undue delay. Another area of need that demands your serious attention is unauthorised levies and dues. There are various recognised levies that the Government has authorised parents to pay, but the past principals of this school had subjected the parents to pay other numerous unauthorised levies and dues for their wards in the school. All these payments are made by the same parents who pay tuition fees, boarding fees as well as providing money for books, clothes, pocket money and other things. Some students dropped out of school as a result of their parents inability to pay all the authorised and unauthorised levies and dues for their wards. Collection of unauthorised levies and dues should be stopped in this school. This will be the only way to reduce the financial burden on parents and make the lives of the students worth living. Mr. Principal Sir, we believe that, God has sent you as a messiah to redeem this great institution from imminent collapse. We promise to give you maximum co-operation in your endeavour to restore the dignity of this institution. We have no doubt that you will attract highly proficient staff and better government support for the school during your stay. Once again we wish you a hearty welcome and many more years of successful school administration. Thanks. Musa Kareem Senior Prefect Usman Dan Fodio Memorial Grammar School, Bauchi.

Comprehensive High School Isong Inyang Abatim P.O.Box 9341 Calabar Cross River State. 9th June, 2022. The Principal, Comprehensive High School, Isong Inyang Abatim. P.O.Box 9341. Calabar Cross River State. Dear Sir, Congratulatory message on the occasion of 60th Anniversary Celebration. I wish to congratulate our able erudite and competent principal, Mr. Ituen Okokon on the occasion of the 60th anniversary celebration of our great institution, Comprehensive High School Isong Inyang Abatim, Calabar, Cross River State. It is a thing of great joy that this great citadel of learning has whethered the storm for these number of years. Without any fear of contradiction, this school is the oldest school in this part of Nigeria, after Hope Waddel Training Institution. Comprehensive High School, Isong Inyang Abatum has produced eminents and world class scholars, who have excelled in different fields of human Among these scholars produced by our great institution are Senator Michael Uche, Dr Moses Ndifon, Rev. father Titus Jeremiah just to mention a few. For this occasion, Sir, I use this medium to thank you for your landmark achievements in this great institution. Your wealth of experience and your high academic stand has made you a competent school administrator of this great institution. No one else is competent enough to pilot and manage the affairs of this school but you. This great courage has been repositioned to gain back her lost glory all to your own credit. Dear Sir, l as the former Senior Prefect of this great institution use this opportunity of the occasion of both anniversary celebration suggest that, these three areas in the school need improvement. Firstly, the area of sanitation in the school needs to be improved upon. The school need a standard toilet, to meet the demands of the teaming population growth in the school. The toilet should be built with modern facilities. You can bear me witness that the students defecations have litered the whole school because of lack of good toilet facilities. The students should be cautioned on how to keep themselves and the school compound clean at all times. Dumping of refuse indiscriminately in the school should be addressed with all amount of seriousness by the school authority. Secondly, the school needs to improve in the area of sporting activities. For some years now the school has not organised inter-house sport competitions. This has affected the school in the area of sporting activities. For instance, during the last Governor's cup football competition, the school crashed out at the group stage in that competition. This was very shameful indeed. A standard football field should be built in the school. Other sporting events should be organised in the school, like volleyball, lawn tennis and others. Field events facilities like. Javelin, discuss and others should be made available in the school. Athletic events should also be improved upon. The loss glory of the school in sporting activities should be restored in a no distant time. Thirdly there should be improvement in the area of students staff relationship. A Careful obsevation shows that there is no cordial relationship between the students and the staff of this school. The teachers are harsh to the students. The teachers do not create rooms for students to approach them for counselling. The students rather received wrong advice from the wrong people. This has affected the conducts and behaviours of the students. Some teachers do not keep secrets revealed to them by the students. The teachers should be cautioned on how to handle such secrets from the students. The female staff should be made to counsel the female students and in the same vein, the male teachers should be made to counsel the male, except in the area of specialty, but let one other person be present while the counselling is going on. I therefore thank you personally for piloting the affairs of this school descreetly and judiciously. If all the areas mentioned are give priority attention, I assure you that you will have a successful tenure in your stay in this school. Thank you very much. Yours faithfully, Emmanuel Akposi

The menace of fake drugs in the society A reliable good-quality drug supply is essential for good health. But often it is missing in society where men and women are dubious. Falsified and substandard medicines, poisoning, lead to untreated disease, early death and treatment failure. Fake drug could be seen as pharmaceutical fraud, a situation where there are substandard drugs in circulation, contaminated products used as drugs, a deliberate fraud by a medical dealer. Fake drug may contain toxic doses of dangerous ingredients and substances that make poor-quality medicines that can never be effective in the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases, causing progression, drug resistance and finally death. Fake drugs is a very serious menace that has threatened the health of the populations in the society today and in the future. The crux of the matter and the more insidious problem is medicine that does not work ineffective medicines often contains benign ingredients. such as chalk pollen or flour, instead of medical chemicals. More dangerously some fake drugs contain substances intended to mask the illness and feign treatment. Patients taking such drugs die with the diseases not effectively treated with original drugs. Drugs are intended to cure patients, or at least to relieve symptoms or show the progression of a disease. Fake drugs affect people in the society. The users of fake drugs are exposed to serious health complication that can affect vital body organs and their functions. Such cases damages the brain, dame other body organs such as liver, heart, lungs and kidney. It can also lead to drug related diseases, such as irregular heart-beat, high blood pressure and others. Fake drugs can also lead to death in some cases, because if drugs are administered with the intention of curing diseases and the drugs are without the vital ingredients or substances.It will not cure the disease, and the patient may eventually die as a result of the fake drugs. It has also been observed by clinical psychologists that fake drugs has caused some individuals to be incapacitated in all aspects of their lives some men are impotent and some women are barren for life. Fake drugs can also affect the unborn babies. Some babies are born dead, some are born imbeciled, some loss sense of good judgment, some have deviant behaviours, some are very lazy and weak to do any task. Some times the foetuses are damaged. The resultant effects could be stillborn or ectopic pregnancy, all because of fake drugs. Must we continue to live with the menace of fake drugs in our society? must we continue to mourn as our love ones pass away to the great beyond? The answer is no! We must not continue in this way. Then what must we do to cure or totally eradicate the menace of fake drugs in our society? The government in conjunction with the relevant drugs law enforcement agencies must ensure that offenders in fake drugs and counterfeit drugs are made to face the full weight of the law and severely punished. Any person who has the equipment or materials used in the production of fake drugs should be jailed without an option of fine. Laws should be promulgated prohibiting the use of drugs without the doctors prescription. No medical personnel should be allowed to practise without authenticated licence. The government should regulate, and control the importation, exportation, manufacturing, distributing, sale, advertising medical equipment and chemicals. The agencies should periodically conduct inspections of all premises used for the production of food, drugs, cosmetic and other related items and issue certificate of usage on those that are original and publicly destroy the ones that are fake or substandard. They must also ensure that every product has manufacturing and expiration dates boldly written on the pack. Imported drugs must be ascertained and certified before clearance for use from the agencies are issued. The religious leaders should use the Holy Books like the Bible, Quran etc. to teach the dangers of fake drugs in the society. Every individual in the family, villages, Local Government Areas, State and the nation at large should be educated on the dangers of fake and counterfeit drugs There should be material and cash rewards to those who give useful information leading to the arrest of fake drugs barons. If we are sincere and serious with our health we must put into practice, all the above mentioned ways of eradicating the menace of fake drugs in the society, we shall live long and enjoy our lives on earth. Thanks. Njoku Okoro