THE NAVIGATION TOOLS

Navigation tools are tool that assist a well organized and arranged website, leaving the visitors to gain easy access to one or two wep pages or even more. 

Here are some of the Navigation tools used by many websites, they are:

* Navigation Bar

* Search

* Text link

* Bread Crumbs

* Pop- up menus

* Site maps

>Navigation Bar:

             Many websites have a bar of links to the main areas of the website located at the top of every webpage. The navigation bar also includes: links to primary pages like Home,  Shop, About, Contact Us, and product and service feature pages. One current trend in web design is for the navigation bar to remain at the top of the webpage even as a visitor scrolls down to view content further down the page, ensuring the visitor always has easy access to the main navigation links. 

>Pop-up Menus: 

            Many websites cannot be adequately navigated by a single layer of menus. Here, secondary menus remain hidden until a visitor performs an action, such as allowing the mouse pointer to hover over an element in the primary menu, or selecting an element in the primary menu  on a mobile device. Once this happens, the secondary menu, sometimes called a drop-down, pop-up, or flyout menu, will appear and provide additional options.

>Breadcrumbs:

              On some websites, you may see a series of words in a row that show the hierarchy of pages that were used to reach the page you are currently on. This heirarchy is called the page breadcrumbs. In the case of this page, the breadcrumbs look like this: Learn the Net > The Interactive Glossary > Navigation Tools.

>Text Links:

            As you read content on a webpage you will sometimes see embedded links. These links are hyperlinked text used to recommend additional resources that might be useful, or to provide a link to the source materials used to develop the content.

>Sitemap: 

          A sitemap is a heirarchical list of all of the web pages on a website. Some sitemaps are designed purely for use by search engine spiders and are not very easy for a human visitor to make sense of, while others are designed to be usable by both spiders and website visitors.

MOTHER OF 2, DIES OF FOOD POISONING IN EKET, AKWAIBOM STATE.

         Photo of late Mrs Esther Ikenna

 Lady loses her life after eating food suspected to have been poisoned by her best friend Miss Precious Okon on Monday 15th November 2021 in Eket LGA of Akwa ibom state.

The victim, Mrs Esther Ikenna aged 34, is  a mother of 2, and hails from Mbano Local Government Area( LGA) of IMO State has been confirmed dead after she was rushed to the hospital by good Samaritans.

The incident occurred on Monday, 15th November 2015 .

Eyewitnesses who saw Esther walking along Idua road, said she became unconscious and fell off and so they rushed her to the Emmanuel Hospital, Eket, Akwaibom state, where she was eventually confirmed dead.

Speaking to the husband of the deceased, Mr Ikenna Nwodu, who disclosed that his wife, had earlier informed him of her visit to her best friend's place, who lives at no. 25  Mbok lane in Eket. 

The suspect, Miss Precious Okon was invited to the C Division of Ikot udota Police station for questioning. 

Photo of the suspect (Miss Precious Okon)

Investigations were conducted, and it was confirmed that the suspect allegedly conspired with the waitress to put a substance, known in Hausa as Zaqami, in the food that was served at the restaurant where they had gone to eat.

 The waitress, Miss Udeme Akpan, who was also arrested,  have confessed to the police, to have collected 10 thousand naira earlier from the suspect  who told her the substance, was just to  make her friend sleep for hours. 

Speaking to The DPO of the C Division Ikot udota Police station, he said that the evidence gotten so far including the autopsy reports, were enough to charge the suspects to court.

ONCE BEATEN TWICE, SHY

By Egu Peace Chukwu

 I kept hearing this adage as a child in my growing up days in secondary school. Many people and even my friends always use it in sentences except me. I felt if I asked people, they will laugh at me, considering how smart I was then. Everyone would think I was familiar with the adage. And So I just joined the multitude in using the adage a few times without really knowing what it meant.

Sometimes, I wondered if it means when you beat someone with a cane, and the person will become shy twice. Funny right? But trust me, that composed meaning of mine, never made any sense to me at all, Until I got into the Higher institution.

Actually, It was the very first day I resumed lectures in Heritage polytechnic Eket.

That is one of the days, I will never forget in a hurry. On that faithful Monday morning, I had lectures at 9am.

Being my first day of attending lecture in the higher institution, I was beautifully dressed, and made sure my outfit that day was on point. I wore my make up and my eyelashes before leaving for school.

The Cyclist who carried me to school that day, dropped me somewhere a bit far from the school gate, and so I decided to take a walk since it was just 8:32 am and at least get to see the new environment I was going to spend few years in.

As I went a little closer to the school gate, With so much excitement for the day, I was busy looking around the area and also at one cute looking guy I saw passing. I wasn't looking well and suddenly I fell into the gutter.

Before I could exclaim "Lord Jesus!", I was already inside the 2ft deep gutter. My only luck that day, was that there was no water in that gutter and there were plenty of stand in it. I had bruises on one part of my laps and my elbow was bruised as well.

The same cute guy I was looking at, was even among the persons that rushed to come lift me out of the gutter, God! At that point, I just wished the ground would just open up swallow me. I almost didn't want to get out.

So I just pretended like I was fine even when I felt so much pain and almost wanted to cry. I hurriedly ran into the school compound not knowing one of my eyelashes and earrings had fallen into the gutter.

As I got into the Department, I just walked into one of the classes not even asking if it was ND 1, I sat on one of the desk, lecture was going on. I bent to open my gown to see the marks on my laps. I had sustained a very big injury. I just close it back and acted normal. Just in the class, one of the girls that sat close to me whispered to me that I was wearing one earrings and one eyelashes. Oh my God! what is all these, I said to myself as I bent my face in shame. So I had to take out the remaining ones and put them into my hand bag. You can imagine how embarrassed I felt at that moment. I practically had to fake a smile, even in pains, pretending all was well.

Shortly, after the class, I rushed home to  nursed my wound. As I was leaving the class, I then realized I was even in the wrong class. Its been over three years now, but I am always still extra careful whenever I get close to that particular gutter

 

One day after class, I saw the same guy, this time on a rainy day. I was leaving the school gate, and here he came again passing, I took a deep gaze, was I obsessed about him? What really was the feelings about ? I thought, but for a moment and couldn't quite place my fingers on it. When I saw him in the rain, I felt a little pity for him, here I am, lost in thought whether or not to go out and cover him with the umbrella I had in my hands. Again, the devil was at work. As I moved to cross the gutter, my heels bent and I felt into that same gutter again. No one could come for me, except a lady of a younger age. As she raised me up from the gutters, I noticed the young man was gone, I over came my fears, "you just have to hold on and never be shy", she said to me.

At least, this time I had no injury, my clothes were dirty. But what that did for me was that it helped me overcome my obsession of him. Maybe the devil sent him, since then, I have not seen him again. I couldn't have been more careful next time.

This was the first time, I really got to  understand the meaning of the adage "Once beaten twice, shy". But In my case,  I had a practical experience. And so I decided to browse the meaning on Google for the first time. And It means "An upleasant experience induces caution".