Margaret Lawrence University has banned the use of smartphones on its campus as part of measures aimed at improving students’ concentration and academic performance. The university announced that any student caught using a smartphone for the first time risks a two-week suspension, with stricter penalties for repeated violations, reports Vangua...
Global technology markets are entering a new phase of strain as surging memory chip prices intensify the ongoing semiconductor shortage. In Nigeria, the ripple effects could translate into a 15 – 20 per cent increase in phone price levels if supply pressures persist into the next quarter, reports Daily Trust. While attention has largely focuse...
•Dr Priscilia Imade The smart phone has become one of the most important tools in modern life. It wakes us in the morning, connects us to family and friends, runs our businesses, teaches our children, entertains us, and even helps us navigate our cities. Many people now spend more time looking at a phone screen […]
•Dr Priscilia Imade Smartphones have become an integral part of our daily life but their prolonged use could pose a great danger to eye health and a significant risk for Digital Eye Strain (DES) also known as Computer Vision Syndrome ( CVS ). Digital Eye Strain refers to a group of eye and vision related […]
•Smartphones The acting Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Dr Saeed Olorunnisola, has urged the federal and state governments to ban the use of smartphones in secondary and tertiary institutions. Olorunnisola said the ban would enhance students’ concentration in class, reports Sunday PUNCH. He stated...
Smartphones will be banned at schools under new legislation proposed in Denmark, the education minister announced today. “We have decided to give the government’s support to this idea and that’s why we are starting to prepare a change in the law,” Mattias Tesfaye told the Danish daily newspaper Politiken. The details of the law have […]...
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