Living off campus 10

This is a work of fiction based on the writer's imaginations. Any resemblance to names, characters, persons,places, events and incidents is purely coincidental

I was more than surprised when someone finally told me that the whole house had been robbed! I was alarmed and worried at the same time, I was about to rush to my room when someone stopped me to say my room and Timothy’s room was not touched. I felt somewhat relieved but I still felt bad for my other house mates. Laura had been beaten, so was Ronald who happened to be around with his girlfriend and had been caught unawares. As for wole he was exposed , the robbers I learnt headed for his room first and he was sent running outside the room half naked with another girl he had spent the night with as the robbers tried to break open his window.

As for Riike ,her little savings was carted away, Kunle wasn’t home too but his new model, expensive laptop was stolen. His own door wasn’t damaged, so the robbers must have easily gained entrance into his room, either they had a key or he didn’t lock his door. Kunle could be careless at times. Another funny and surprising issue was the fact that

AK’s room wasn’t burgled. Within few minutes, the neighbourhood’s security men, police officers had arrived and began to question everyone. Some people were taken to the police station to write statement. This occurrence really disrupted the whole day. I suddenly wished I could park out of the house.

I had to keep Riike and Laura company while they mourned. Laura kept cursing wole who had disappeared because of shame. As for Bukky who had disappeared from the house 2 days earlier, she returned home with the caretaker few hours after the policemen were gone, looking all surprised and concerned. After asking lots of questions and the usual suspect naming and lamentations, the caretaker disappeared with her into her room. At first I just felt maybe he went in to ascertain how much had been stolen from her room but to my surprise, they didn’t come out for hours. A lot of rumours had been paddled about Bukky dating the caretaker despite all the male visitors she entertained but I was yet to believe. Riike and Laura further confirmed to me their findings and with the way they both arrived and disappeared I began to believe the story. Laura especially hardly carried fake news, she was good with the amebo thing, her stories were always true in the end. The situation was a funny and shameless one, as lazy as Bukky was, she had time to entertain male visitors and even the illiterate caretaker.
Night came and we said our goodnights to each other as I left Riike and Laura to go to my room. My imaginations played pranks on me a bit as I imagined someone break in from the back door again.
I quickly entered my room and locked the door. As we all went to sleep that night , I thought within myself the worst is over since those who were taken to write statement had been released. But to my surprise the following morning as I prepared for school, I started hearing shouts from the passage..

Tutorial 2: how to search for information online effectively using google and other search engines

A lot of times we spend too much time on the internet while researching on a given topic, this can be frustrating especially when we have limited time, data or power supply to work with. Ever wondered why you search for some things and you don’t find the right or detailed information that will be helpful? While I was still an undergraduate a friend of mine confessed that she wasn’t really swift and skilled in searching for information online using google and the likes.


Effective searching is a powerful skill, think about how often you go on google even to search for something so simple such as spellings of words.. I do that at times. I thought of all these and decided to share a few tips I know and that I also found out even as I asked skilled computer gurus. Here are some below, I hope you find them helpful.


In searching effectively, the search engine one uses matter. Results are based on relevance ranking and search algorithm used by the search engine. I once heard from one of my lecturers that the use of google scholar is more appropriate for students. But then there are other search engines such as google, bing, surfwax, complete planet, edu finder, yahoo search and so on.


Use fewer words : when you are typing into the search box, according to an online article I came across, it said every time you add a new word to the mix, you limit your result.

Use quotes : this tells google or whatever search engine you are using that you are looking for that exact statement or word. This is more effective when you are searching for an exact statement

Search a certain website, or a website that links the subject of your search if you are sure of it

Try and search for things in multiples, I mean giving multiple options using OR especially when you are looking for alternatives of the same link e.g FUNAAB admission list 2009 OR 2010.

If you are searching for a range of numbers, instead of using “–“ USE …… e.g 12 ……..100 , $ 40……. $ 100

You may also use search operators, search operators are words that can be added to searches to help narrow down results e.g searching the NBA website to get any mention of Olympics or Olympic games.

The use of autocomplete, I m certain a lot of us have used this at some points and may not realize. But it really is a good search aid as it saves time and also it helps you to chose from multiple predicitions. It corrects misspelt words as well and this helps especially when you only have an idea of what you are looking for but you are not so sure of the spelling. Autocomplete helps you to be sure. As soon as you type in some of the keywords from what you are researching autocomplete brings in the predictions.

I sincerely hope this has been helpful. Look out for the next tutorial.