Boosting Reading Culture among Youths in Nigeria

There is need to boost the reading culture of Nigerians, because books are very important and people need to always read in order to broaden their horizons, as well as to be well-informed.

Youths especially are fond of not reading, they find reading tedious and stressful most times and they turn to the internet for entertainment.

Lack of well-equipped libraries, poor orientation concerning the importance of books, and misuse of the internet, are part of the reasons why people don’t read in Nigeria.

A solution to this is that authors should find out what readers, especially their target audience want through researching about what they want to read and also how to appeal to the readers. By finding out these two things, authors will be able to attract readers.

Another solution is that there should be proper orientation concerning how youths can use the internet in the right way and even how they can read through different internet platforms.

Also, there should be orientation concerning the need to read, need to improve the mind, and why reading is very important.

With all these, the reading culture among youths can be improved.

CALEB UNIVERSITY HOLDS THANKGIVING SERVICE FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS

In celebration of the graduating students of Caleb University, a special thanksgiving service was held to thank the lord for seeing them through the times of being an undergraduate.

The dress code was royal blue and white. The thanksgiving service was a colourful ceremony with smiles on their faces, minds filled with joy and happiness and all final year students in their various mixture of white and royal blue attire

The service started with the hymn section then the Sunday school proceeded to exhortation with the topic “with God all things are possible” by prof. Nosa Owens-Ibie; the school chaplain.The friends and well-wishers of the graduating students also celebrated with them. Thinking of the love they shared in the past few years, some of the students shed tears of joy, missing each other already.Finally it ended with prayers and words of encouragement and advice from the chaplain. After the service, the students danced and took pictures of each other to remind them of their friends and the university.

MOVIE REVIEW: TRANSFORMER; AGE OF EXTINCTION

                       Transformers franchise is a film that had potential of being interesting, fun, popcorn action like the previous entries, and after the third film, which for me was quite good; I was very much looking forward to Age of Extinction. I liked the film somewhat, but I felt was very much more of the same stuff that we've seen plenty of times before. I didn't think the film was awful, but I was disappointed as well because the trailers looked promising. I've seen far worst movies than this one, and though Age of Extinction is not a great movie, it does have its moments.

The film's biggest problems are that some of the CGI, action scenes look a little sketchy and the run time of the film. I felt that they really could have trimmed down on the length, and the movie just was far too long than it needed to be, and it started off like it was going to be a good popcorn action film like the original, but here Michael Bay decided to go much bigger in scope, and in turn lost track on the fact that it could really have been a fun action film if the plot would have been reworked, the action done a bit better and the run time shortened. Age of Extinction isn't a film that should have run nearly three hours in length, because after all the Transformers films are nothing but popcorn thrills with little substance to its action scenes. 

For what they are, they a good time, but they're not great cinema either. Age of Extinction had some interesting ideas going for it, which added a certain depth to the film, but as the film progressed, Bay lost sight on the big picture and opted to toss the interesting story out the window, and just end up doing whatever he does best in every film he's made, and that's nonstop action, and with that being said, as much as I am a fan of the original movie, at times the film seemed a little too dull. Michael Bay doesn't know when to quit, and it makes this film lack. Not awful, but could have been much better than this, Transformers: Age of Extinction is decent at best, and for fans of the franchise, you'll simply end up wanting more here, and if you're looking for an exceptional story, you won't find it here, you'll only find shrouds of good ideas that are strewn together amidst the action.

Source of the review: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_age_of_extinction/