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Corps member allegedly rapes Osun university student

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 5, 2024

Soji Ezekiel, a man presently serving a one-year National Youth Service Corps term, was detained by Osun State police on suspicion of raping an Osun State University undergraduate. The female victim (name withheld) allegedly went to Soji’s room to charge her phone after he allegedly took

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Ogun empowers women with financial literacy

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 4, 2024

To combat poverty, the Ogun State Government has empowered women through the ‘Oko-Owo Dapo’ empowerment project, which teaches them financial literacy. Adijat Adeleye, Ogun State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, presented a keynote presentation at the beginning of the ‘Training Of Trainers Workshop on Financial Education’ in

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US organisation, group provide robotics and E-STEM training to Kwara teachers and students

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 8, 2024

A non-governmental organisation called Webfala Digital Skills for All Initiative (WDSFaI) in collaboration with two US organisations, Pratt and Whitney and the North American Association for Environmental Education, have organised E-STEM (Environment, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and robotics training programmes for teachers in Kwara State. Michael

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NGX dedicated to promoting financial literacy among youths

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 6, 2024

The Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) has declared the publication of the most recent edition of NGX StockTown, a distinctive comic book intended to encourage financial literacy among the country’s younger generation. NGX StockTown is the Exchange’s fulfilment of a long-held, passionate dream to enable people of all income levels to make wise financial decisions

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Stray bullet kills university graduate, sparking protests in Kaduna

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 4, 2024

Sunday, February 4, saw protests erupt in Rigachikun in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state in response to violence that resulted from Saturday’s rerun elections for the Igabi Federal Constituency, which tragically claimed the life of Kaduna State University graduate Mansur Shafiu. On Sunday, February 4, at around 10:00 am, the angry youths […]

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24-year-old student commits suicide after breakup with boyfriend

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 29, 2024

A Diploma Two female student named Jemima Shetima Balami, who was doing an industrial attachment with Adamawa State Television in Yola, took her own life. Jemima, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Mubi studying mass communication, is said to have killed herself by  consuming a poisonous substance because her boyfriend declared he was no longer interested in dating her.

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Fed Govt investigates 17 cases of data violations against banks, hospitals, schools, others

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 29, 2024

According to the Federal Government, the Nigerian Data Protection Commission (NDPC), one of its agencies, is looking into 17 major cases of data breaches and violations. In an address to reporters yesterday at the Continental Hotels in Abuja, the commission’s National Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Vincent Olatunji, made this announcement in connection

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Fire destroys two schools in Anambra

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 28, 2024

Over the weekend, a fire ravaged two secondary schools in Nawfia, which is in the Njikoka local government area of Anambra State. The affected institutions were Community Secondary School and Comprehensive Secondary School, both situated in Nawfia. The fires broke out in the evening and spread to the school buildings from a neighbouring bush, according […]

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IED explosion kills 6 students in Borno

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 28, 2024

No fewer than six children died in a horrific incident that occurred on Saturday in Gubio Local Government Area, Borno State, as a result of an improvised explosive device (IED) going off close to a Qur’anic school. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency journal that focuses on the Lake Chad region, the catastrophic event happened […]

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NSCDC detains teacher in Niger for allegedly molesting students

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 24, 2024

Mallam Nura Suleiman, a 43-year-old Islamic instructor, has been detained by the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly abusing a three-year-old student named Isah Muaazu in Suleja, Suleja Local Government Area. In a statement endorsed by SC Nasir D. Abdullahi, Public Relations Officer in Minna, it was […]

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UNILORIN postgraduate student expelled over alleged sexual assault

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 23, 2024

Mr. Mathew Adeboye Balogun, also known as Plato, has been expelled by the University of Ilorin’s management. His matriculation number is 14/25OD062. Mr. Balogun, a Master’s student in the university’s Department of Councillor Education, Faculty of Education, was dismissed from the university after it was determined that he had committed acts of sexual

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Hundreds of Covenant University Students ‘Hospitalised’ Over Suspected Food Poisoning

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 22, 2024

According to reports, hundreds of Covenant University students in Ota, Ogun State, were admitted to the hospital after possibly contracting food poisoning from the school’s butteries. The number of affected students has caused the school’s medical center to become overcrowded. But the university is keeping mum over the matter as calls and messages to relevant

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Taraba commissioner under investigation over alleged fake foreign degree certificate

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 22, 2024

Taraba State security services have been requested to look into claims that Joseph Joshua, the Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, received a degree from a Benin Republic university. The request came after an internet publication revealed how simple it was for a reporter to graduate in six weeks from an African institution and then […]

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1 student dead in Kaduna explosion, 10 others receiving treatment at ABU Teaching Hospital

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 21, 2024

A student from an Islamiyya school died and ten others were reportedly injured in an explosion that occurred in Kidandan village in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. In a statement made on Saturday in Kaduna, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, the Overseeing Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, stated that the security authorities […]

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Student group petition Tinubu regarding VCs’ alleged misappropriation of TETFUND projects

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 20, 2024

Some vice chancellors and rectors of government-owned tertiary institutions have been accused by a student group called the Concerned Public Tertiary schools’ Students Association (CoPTISA) of TETFUND projects misappropriation. In a letter to President Bola Tinubu, CoPTISA stated that the only chance Nigeria has to save its government-owned schools from “a

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UNICEF to enrol 4,000 out-of-school girls in Katsina

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 20, 2024

Through its Reaching and Empowering Adolescent females in North-West Nigeria (REACH) programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has started enrolling 4,000 out-of-school adolescent females in Katsina State schools. The programme is being carried out in the state’s local government areas of Rimi, Mani, and Katsina and is supported by UNICEF in

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Ila College Crisis: Committee Reverses Suspension of Provost, Orders Status Quo Ante

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 20, 2024

OSOGBO- 18/01/2024 – Osunstate.gov.ng The Investigative Committee on the leadership crisis rocking the Ila Orangun College of Education has reversed the suspension of the college provost, Prof Jimoh Afolabi and ordered status quo ante pending the outcome of the investigation. At its meeting chaired by the Committee Chairman who is also the Chief of Staff […]

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A commercial bus driver in Osun loses control, crushes 4 students to death

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 16, 2024

Five persons were killed in a horrific accident that happened on Tuesday morning along the Lameco-Stadium route. Among the victims were four children from Fakunle Unity School. The disastrous event occurred during a commercial bus collision. Witnesses claimed that the speeding bus, which had the registration number Abuja RBC 15 ZN, veered out of its […]

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Hoodlums storm EKSUTH, assault doctors and steal corpse

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 16, 2024

Doctors call for the arrest of those responsible for the strike.Yesterday, some doctors who were on duty at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti (EKSUTH), were attacked by hoodlums. It was said that the invaders were protesting what they believed to be neglect that resulted in their relative’s death. The thugs allegedly removed […]

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Another Student Killed By Kidnappers In Abuja, Buried Amid Tears (Video)

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 15, 2024

Folorunsho Ariyo, a secondary school student, was killed by her captors after being abducted with her family in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)’s Dutse axis. On Sunday, January 7, 2024, gunmen broke into Sagwari Layout Estate in Dutse and abducted ten people, among them Folorunsho, her mother, and three siblings. The remains of Folorunsho and Nabeeeha […]