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Though Yusuf is a much younger lawyer, you cannot compare his eloquence with his master's With; having or possessing (something).

The student wondered why the sun constantly rises from the east From; indicating the point in space at which a journey, motion, or action starts.

Mrs. Kofi is angry at her daughter's lack of interest in her business. If directed at a person "angry with" should always be used. If directed at a situation I believe "angry at" would also be acceptable. e.g. I was very angry at how rainy it was. The key is who or what the anger is aimed at. in this regards, its aimed at ''lack of interest"

Until I heard him myself, could not have imagined that he said that. Could not have means that something was impossible in the past.

No sooner had war started than the soldiers deserted the village. Than; is used in expressions indicating one thing happening immediately after another.

Let’s read the sentence in context: However, after a few trials she discovered from the operator that she was not in —95— and so, the —96— could not go —97—. The natural expression in telephone usage is: “the call could not go through” So the correct word is call.

Effective; successful in producing a desired or intended result.

(a) To seek cure and or answers to their problems (b) (i) To exercise evil spirits (ii) To cure illnesses that defied orthodox treatment (c) The on-lookers mistook him for a thief. (d) (i) Chaining the lunatic. (ii) Lashing the lunatic with horse whip. (iii) Dragging the lunatic along the street. (e) He disapproves of it/He condemns it/He detests it. (f) Simile (g) (i) Adjectival/Relative clause (ii) It qualifies (the noun) "patients" ( h ) (i ) Intractable — incurable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, complex, complicated. (ii) Supplications ---prayers, petitions, entreaties, pleas. (iii) Wobbly — weak, unsteady, shaky, trembling, shaking. (iv) bemused — confused, baffled, amazed, bewildered, perplexed, puzzled. (v) intermittently — at intervals, now and again, from time to time. (vi) deranged — disturbed, troubled, unbalanced, sick.

Omole Senior High School, Omole Phase 1. Omole, Ikeja. 29th June, 2010 Dear Sheila, How are you and your studies? I hope that you are fine. The family has moved into a new neighbourhood. We moved a month after your departure to the United States of America. At first, I was happy that we were about to leave our former neighbourhood for a new one but, on getting there. I found out that I couldn't like the new neighbourhood. In fact, I dislike our new neighbourhood for some reasons. Firstly, the area is too boring for my liking. Residents of the neighbourhood are not lively. All they do is go out, come back and lock themselves in their flats. Unlike our former neighbourhood which was lively with children around to play with, our new area is boring to the extent that the streets are mostly desolate and deserted. The area has turned me to a prisoner. I no longer go out to visit friends because I don't have friends here. The fact is that there are no friendly people around. They just mind their business. Secondly, the area lacks necessary social amenities that can make life enjoyable. The area lacks electricity as well as good roads and other vital infrastructure. Apart from the fact that we always have stuffy and hot nights especially during dry season which force us to open our windows for mosquitoes, it is difficult for me to read my books at night. My only alternative is to purchase a lamp that is battery-powered. Apart from this, the neighbourhood is well known for armed robbery attacks. We have had up to ten armed robbery attacks in less than three weeks of our arrival. There is no peace and everybody in the neighbourhood is always scared and troubled because no one knows when the next attack will be. It has even got to a stage when armed robbers are no longer afraid of operating in the day time. For instance, there was an incident that occurred in our neighbourhood recently. One afternoon, a family was driving into our area at about six o' clock in the evening. About eight huge and fierce looking men stopped the car. The family was ready to leave everything for them but the robbers still went on to forcefully rob the family. As I earlier said. the place is a jungle and not fit for man to live. Unfortunately. I live there. I hope I do not turn into ' an animal one day. Please extend my greetings to your roommates Yours sincerely. Tosin.

(a) Because many pupils were eager/volunteered to stay with her. (b) i) His parents would be saved the problem of feeding him. (ii) His brothers and sisters did not like his ways /attitude towards them. (c) The thought of accompanying Miss Williamson to Rofunkti (d) (He could not understand ) why they left their own country to live among a people whose ways were different from theirs. (e) Thes h owe cir when they were not at work or talking about their work. (f) (i) Noun Clause. (ii) Object of the verb have never found out (g) I smiled until I fell asleep/slept off. Or it means that the writer smiled until he slept. (h) 0) scanned — searched, examined, studied, scrutinized. (ii) inevitably — undoubtedly, certainly, naturally, surely. (iii) nurse — nurture, cherish, anticipate. (iv) visions — fancies, dreams, thoughts, hopes, imaginations, prospects (v) gauged — determined, measured, estimated, assessed. (vi) brooding depressed, unhappy, sad, melancholic, despondent, downcast,

(a) A good dictionary gives information about the language. (b) It distracts the reader's attention from following the main ideas of the passage. (ii) t wastes time or slows down the reading speed. (c) He should guess the meaning of the unfamiliar word. (ii) Ho should read the whole passage. (iii)He should study the structure of the word.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING: A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUTHS. Undoubtedly unemployment is one of the banes of our country. Unemployment is particularly common among the youths despite the fact that most of them are graduates of one higher institution or the other. It is assumed that most of the youths are unemployable. Though they are educated. unfortunately, they are educated to be job seekers only and not job creators or employers. What this means is that they are not trained to make use of their hands hence they graduate from higher institutions to become suitable for white collar jobs only. Consequently, most of them become frustrated after searching for white collar jobs for several years without success. This situation can be reversed if vocational training can be encouraged in and out of our educational institutions. Vocational training is the training received on a particular trade or occupation. For example, girls can be trained to become hair dressers. photographers and so on while our boys can be trained to be barbers, dry cleaners and fashion designers. Training in different vocations is the only panacea to unemployment as any youth who has undergone such training won't have to look for somebody to employ him. He will want to establish himself in the business with the assistance he can get from the government and his parents. Besides, a youth who is self-employed, due to the vocational training he has received, will train and employ other youths. Through this, the rate of unemployment in our society will be reduced. As a result of this, there will be less pressure on government as government will be able to divert its attention to provision of infrastructure that will facilitate creation of obs. Vocational training, in this way, will make it possible for most of our youths to be producers of goods and services which when purchased will make life comfortable for them. Furthermore, through vocational training for our youths, many products like soap, detergent, pomade, air freshener and even hand set can be produced. This will make the country to become producers of goods which when improved upon can be exported to other countries of the world to earn foreign exchange for our country. It is in the light of this that it is a matter of urgency for government to set up vocational centres in all the states in the country. This will enable the youths to come to these vocational centres to learn one trade or the other. Moreover, vocational training should be introduced in schools. This will give the youths the opportunity to learn one vocation or the other which they can fall back on when they are unable to get white collar jobs after graduation. Vocational training is an efficient method of reducing unemployment through empowering youths economically by training them to use their hands to create job opportunities for themselves. If they are trained in one trade or occupation, they will establish small scale industries which will make them to be self-employed. Dominic Adams. SS 3A 1.

Omole Senior Grammar School, Omole Phase 1. Omole, Ikeja. 29th June, 2010. The Minister, Ministry of Transportation, Garki, Abuja. Dear Sir, Problems of Public Transport System I appreciate the good work you have been doing since your appointment as the Minister of Transport in the country. It is commendable. However, there is still much to be done as the country's public transport system is yet to function properly. There is no doubt that the public transport system is still facing some challenges which do not make it to function properly as expected by many Nigerians. A problem of the public transport system which has been a major concern for Nigerians for a long time is the deadly situation of our major highways and roads. Due to the bad situation of the roads many people are not encouraged to travel on these roads as few who make use of the roads complain bitterly about the alarming rate of accidents and armed robbery attacks on these roads. Sir. several lives are lost on our roads as a result of the poor situation of these major roads. A very big problem of the public transport system is the over-concentration of people on roads as a means of transport, thereby neglecting other transport systems like rail and seaways. The railway system is non-existing as the railway lines are in bad condition across the country. In the past, railway system was a major form of transporting goods and people across the country. It was safe and cheap and people preferred to travel by train then. These days, the railway system has been neglected which makes the road system to be over-burdened and overused. These roads are being overused to the detriment of other systems of transportation railway system. earlier mentioned and water transportation. You do not even pay attention to the water transportation let alone developing it. Another problem of public transport system is that the government appointed contractors who are awarded the contract to construct roads in the country either do the job perfunctorily or make away with the money without doing anything. Those who do something do not complete the roads. Sir, in order to remedy the poor situation of our public transport system bad roads should be repaired without any delay while new ones should be constructed. As the roads are being rehabilitated the railway system should be rejuvenated with the rail lines repaired and new and modern trains purchased. The water transport system should also be revitalized with the purchase of speed boats, ferries and other means of transportation on water provided. If all these could be done, there will be less concentration of people on our roads and this will lead to decongestion on roads. I would be grateful if you could make use of these measures suggested Thank you Yours faithfully. Bassey Ekpenyong.

Chairman, Panel of Judges. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here to speak against the motion that states that the youths of today are more interested in the pursuit of pleasure than in academic work. It is not true that the youths of today are interested in pleasure than academic work. I will like to say that everyone likes pleasure one way or the other and so are the youths, but I put it to you that in spite of this fact, the youths take their academic work seriously than they take pleasure. First and foremost, I want to say categorically that in schools, both in secondary schools and higher institutions, the youths think about their academics before they think about pleasure. Everyone wants to pass his examinations and make his family proud. Nobody wants to fail and be put to shame or be asked to withdraw. This makes the youths to work hard on their academic work than pleasure. I will also like us to look at the number of people who write the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Examination every year for placement in our universities. Last year, about one million candidates, who are mostly youths, sat for the examination. I now ask you my audience, if the youths of today do not take academic works seriously, why would so many people write JAMB examination even when some of these youths had written it about six to seven times and insist on writing it. It is because they want to gain admission into the university and further their education. The youths of today will by dint of hard work go to school to get good degrees. Where then is the pursuit of pleasure that is being alleged? Without seriousness at school, the youths do know that they can't achieve success. Therefore, they take their academic work seriously as there will be time for pleasure later. The youths of today also desire to be recognized and reckoned with in the society. They know that they can not become prominent Nigerians in future unless they work very hard in their studies. Therefore they want to work hard on their academic work so as to get good grade at school in order not to depend on their parents or anybody in future and be able to take care of their families without difficulty. They know that this can't be achieved without hard work. Today, many companies will not employ anybody who does not pass with distinction in his academics. Therefore, those who do not pass their examinations won't be employed. This means that all the years they spend in school have been wasted. The youths of today are aware of this crucial point which makes them to work hard on their academic work. They do not pursue pleasure as my opponent will want us to believe. I hope that with these few points of mine. I have been able to convince you that the youths of today are interested in their academic work more than in the pursuit of pleasure.

Indeed, a good name is better than riches. Once upon a time, in the city of Lagos lived a man whose name was Mr. Akpan Effiong. He had a wife and three children. Mr. Akpan Effiong was an accountant who worked in a firm known as Emirate Investment and Holdings Limited. He had two colleagues who worked with him as accountants and their names were Mr. Akinwande and Mr. Nwokocha. They all worked in the same office but Mr. Akinwande and Nwokocha were fraudulent. They doctored the company's accounts at will and stole company's money through dubious means. They tried to introduce their fraudulent deal to Mr. Effiong but he refused to join them in defrauding the company because he had always wished to live a clean life. free of dubious activities as his parents had admonished him that a good name is always better than riches. They tried every means possible to convince Mr. Effiong to join them in their devilish acts but he refused. When they were not successful in convincing Mr. Effiong to join them. Mr. Akinwande and Mr. Nwokocha continued to defraud the company and at times converted company properties to their private uses. They opened several accounts bought land and houses in choice areas of the city of Lagos. Mr. Effiong knew all these things but he determined that he would not contradict what his parents told him. At a particular period of time there was a project which the firm was commissioned to execute. The project was worth about twenty million U S dollars Akinwande and Nwokocha saw it as a wonderful opportunity to make more money and they seized it. They devised a plan to trick Mr. Effiong to sign a forged cheque so as to collect a large sum from the project fund. When they realized that this might be difficult, they resorted to forging Mr. Effiong's signature. When the firm found out that they had been duped they invited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate into the fraud in the company It was found out that the forged cheque had Mr. Effiong's signature. Mr. Effiong was disgraced and arrested. The firm fired him. froze his accounts and impounded his cars as well as seized his house. He was forced out of his house to go and rent an apartment. His name was smeared as all newspapers had a coverage of the crime he had allegedly committed. Mr. Akinwande and Nwokocha having fulfilled their mission, they were very happy and they continued in their dubious acts They were promoted to the posts of Head Accountant and Assistant Head Accountant respectively. They enjoyed their new status had the best of everything and didn't bother to know what was happening to Mr. Effiong's family. After a short while their evil acts caught up with them as their plan to swindle the firm of another big sum of money failed. The skeleton in their cupboards were exposed and it was found out that they had been the ones duping the company all along Through their confessions when they were tortured by the EFCC, Mr. Effiong was exonerated. He was restored to his former office and shortly after. he was promoted. His name became a synonym for honesty and he also won the Silverbird Man-of-the-Year award for his honesty. He forgave Mr. Akinwande and Nwokocha and even gave them money for the upkeep of their families. Thus indeed, a good name is better than riches.