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SECTION A
1. The literary and debating society of your school is organizing a
debate on the topic: Poverty, and not corruption, is the Bane of our
society. Write your arguments for or against the motion.
2. Write
an article suitable for publication in a national newspaper on the
dangers posed by the use of commercial motorcycles in our cities and
suggest ways of curbing them.
3. Write a story that best illustrates the saying: A leopard cannot change its spots.
4. Write a letter to the Honorable minister of Agriculture on ways of boosting Agriculture in your country.
*SECTION B*
5a.
Howard Douglas advocate for the legalization of drugs because the world
will be better controlled if their sale is regulated.
5b. Scott suspended taking drugs while he was serving a 5 weeks prison term.
5c.
Scott died because his body was no longer used to his usual dose of
drugs. He also died because his final shot contained an impurity.
5d.
Mr. Douglas proffered legalization and regulation as one of the
measures in tackling drug abuse. He also proffered providing a clean and
controlled environment for drugs to be taken with medical advice.
5ei. The expression “…who is a staunch opponent of drugs…?” is an Adjectival clause.
5eii. It modifies “his father”.
5f. The government lacks the political will to tackle drug abuse because nothing motivates them too.
5g Young people get involved in drugs because it helps them getting over their painful experience.
5h.
Staunch === Strong
Firmly ==== Strongly
Inquiry ==== Investigation
Concedes ===== Agrees
Tackle ======= Deal with
Associates ===== Partners
*SECTION C*
6ai. One can improve one’s health by forming good habits.
ii. One’s health can be improved when he or she eats fresh rather than repacked or fast foods.
iii. One’s health can be improved by eating moderately rather than excessively to avoid obesity.
iv.
One can improve one’s health by avoiding the consumption of foods which
have been stripped of much of their nutritional value.
v. One can
also improve health by drinking plenty of water daily especially during
hot weather and when doing heavy physical work and exercise
ENGLISH LETTER WRITING ANSWER
3)write a story that best illustrates the saying: A leopard cannot change its spots
3)
The leopard is identified and has exclusivity only because of its
spots. Similarly we cannot change the basic characteristic that one is
endowed with. It may seem to disappear from time to time but will soon
resurface. This can be explained with the following story from the
Panchatantra.
Once there was a jackal that went to a village in
search of food and accidentally fell into a tub containing blue colour
dye. The jackal looked pretty strange since it was blue in colour and
all the animals in the forest ran away in fright. The animals in the
forest called for a meeting to discuss about strange looking animal –
not realizing that it was only the Jackal.
They unanimously decided to keep away from the blue creature.
The cunning jackal decided to take advantage of the situation and
declared that he was sent to earth by God to rule over as the King of
the forest and asked all the animals to obey him. The frightened animals
agreed immediately. The jackal was scared that his fellow jackals might
find out his true identity and banished all of them from the kingdom.
The poor jackals had nowhere to go and were very upset. They guessed
that the strange blue creature was indeed a jackal and wanted to teach
him a lesson for treating his fellow beings so badly.
They came up
with a plan. The oldest and wisest of them said. “Let us all howl
collectively. If he is a jackal then he cannot resist his innate nature
and he too will start howling.” All these jackals waited for an
opportunity to reveal the natural characters of the Blue Jackal to other
animals in the forest. As waited for, the opportunity came for their
help.
So one day when the Blue Jackal was presiding over his court,
all the banished jackals started howling together. The Blue jackal
forgot for a moment that IT was THE King and responded immediately. When
the other animals realized that they had been cheated by the cunning
jackal they pounced on him and chased him away.
However the jackal
tried to cheat other animals in the forest, the fact it was nothing but
only a jackal came to light for the simple reason that the jackal could
not conceal its natural tendency.
The leopard can not change his spots.
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*(4)*
Question:
Write a letter to the honorable minister of agriculture on ways of boosting agriculture in your country?
*Solution*
Niyi Akinnaso
Dear Chief Ogbeh,
This is a follow-up on the ways of boosting Agriculture in our country.
Furthermore, just last weekend, at least 12 persons were reportedly
killed and 18 seriously injured by suspected Fulani herdsmen in a fresh
attack in three villages in the Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba
State. All this goes to show that the President’s directive on securing
communities previously attacked is not working, and no measure is in
place to prevent attacks on new targets.
As for the directive to
apprehend the perpetrators of various killings across the country, the
anxious public has yet to be informed about major arrests since the
directive was given. If arrests have been made, then the culprits should
be paraded, arraigned, and sentenced publicly, partly to provide
psychological closure for those who lost loved ones in the attacks and
partly to serve as a deterrent to other herdsmen. At the end of the day,
the public wants to be assured that the President’s directive to deal
with the perpetrators is not another instance of movement without
motion.
The President’s most impactful directive is on the creation
of what he called “grazing areas” with which your ministry is charged.
It is refreshing that you have re-interpreted this directive
appropriately, namely, to create ranches for cattle farmers, rather than
the controversial grazing reserves, which would also require grazing
routes through several states.
Many states have vowed never to allow
such encroachment. Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State spoke for
others, when he declared: “Grazing zones could be created for those who
are traditional cattle rearers in their areas. I’m not against that, but
you cannot come here and tell me you want to occupy our land for
grazing zones. The land exists in our respective states and as such, the
rightful owners should decide what to do with them” (Nigerian Tribune,
April 26, 2016).
Questions remain, however, with the plan you
announced about creating ranches. Let me repeat what you said: “We have
already acquired 5,000 hectares of land from nine states. We wrote and
the governors gave us land but we have to farm them out to private
sector investors who will prepare the land and make sure they can
harvest grass six to seven times a year, dry or rainy season, and the
cows have fresh grass to eat.”
Following an earlier lead from you,
it is safe to assume that the nine states are all from the North, the
home region of cattle rearers in the country. Here are my questions: Who
partners the private investors in preparing and grassing the ranches —
the Federal Government or the respective states which own the land? What
role will the ultimate users of the ranches — the cattle rearers — play
in the venture? Would they purchase ranches, once ready, or pay rent to
the investors? Or, will the respective states pick up the rent and farm
out the ranches to cattle rearers in their states? And what happens to
pockets of cattle owners in parts of the south? Will you also work with
the affected state governments in providing the same assistance?
Or will their cattle continue to graze freely while those in the north are being ranched?
I raise these questions as a follow-up to my earlier suggestion in the
letter to the President that the Federal Government should not put
taxpayers’ money into the ranching venture, unless there are plans to so
assist other animal and crop farmers throughout the country. I quite
understand, of course, that the Federal Government may want to partner
cattle farmers, if the goal is to put Nigeria on the map of top
suppliers of beef, dairy products, and leather to the rest of the world.
What I am saying is that such a policy should be generalised to other
farmers.
There is also the technical question about the basis of
your planning so far. How many cattle farmers are there and,
approximately, how many heads of cattle are we talking about? If you
don’t have these statistics, how are we sure that the arrangements
underway will solve the grazing problem once and for all?
There are
also other knotty issues in need of clarification by your ministry. One
is the true identity of the marauding herdsmen. True, there are cattle
owners, like Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who are not Fulani; but are there
herdsmen in Nigeria, who are not Fulani?
You raised another
dimension of the identity problem, when you wondered if foreign herdsmen
were not behind the attacks. This position tallies with that of the
Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, who insinuated that the
killer herdsmen could have been foreigners. He even pinpointed armed men
displaced by the crises in Libya and Mali.
However, this position
is contradicted by the Nigeria Immigration Service, which argues that
there is no proof that there are foreign cattle rearers in Nigeria. At
least, none entered through Nigerian borders. The position is also
contradicted by local knowledge. For example, the leaders of the Cattle
Breeders Associations in Plateau and Benue states have stated publicly
that the killings by Fulani herdsmen were a revenge for the killings of
their members and for stealing their cattle.
This immediately raises
the question of cattle rustling, which needs as much attention as
cattle grazing. Who are the cattle rustlers and where do they come from?
Perhaps, the spotlight on foreignness should be turned on them.
These contradictions go to the heart of the Nigerian problem: No
reliable statistics. No coordination among related government agencies.
Problems are solved on the fly. Government officials say what they
think, rather than what they know for sure. And the list goes on.
Still one major task remains, and it should have been the starting point
— disarming the herdsmen. Since herders will still continue to roam
with their cattle in search of green pastures before ranches are ready,
it is critical to disarm them to minimise future assault.
Again, you
already indicated that you would bring this matter to the President’s
attention. Please, do so immediately. It also will be useful if the
sources of their arms could be investigated so they could be blocked.
Now, my friendly advice. True, the buck stops on the President’s desk
on this issue, everyone now knows that it also passes through your desk.
It will be a great achievement if you could facilitate the process by
which the menacing clashes between herdsmen and farmers are brought to
an end. While going about this onerous task, it will be helpful to
update the public from time to time. It also will be useful to seize
this opportunity to begin to develop a databank on cattle rearing in
this country that could be used as the basis for future planning
YOURS FAITHFULLY
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