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Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it Mr. Ogun it was that wooed me for school. That was decades ago. I had resisted vehemently; I even ran away to hibernate with my maternal grandmother. I had told Granny that I wanted to spend a few days with…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it Part of my one-year study programme in Britain involved visiting several places of historical importance, especially those related to precolonial African history on which I was researching. One was the home of William Wilberforce, the 19th century anti-slave trade statesman.…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it. When Bademosi heard that he had some visitors from Ireti, his hometown, he concluded immediately that they must be the usual seekers of financial assistance, or jobs. He decided that this time, he would give them the rough edge of…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it Although rural people needed kerosene for lighting, they relied on it more for cooking. However, persistent fuel scarcity had made the commodity hardly affordable where it was available. Fetching dry wood from the forest became inevitably the order of the…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it As I watched Musa step out of the plane, I concluded that diligence, intelligence and luck had turned Musa from the rustic pauper of thirty years earlier to a highly successful professional. Here was a village boy of yesteryear, an…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it Miss Williamson announced in class one day that she wanted one of us to live with her to help her with her domestic work after school. There was a rush to volunteer which took her completely by surprise. When she…

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions on it. It was a little past 10 a.m but the medium-sized hall that served as a prayer house was already brimming with people from different parts of the metropolis, who had come to seek cure or answers to their problems. The…