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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

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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 […]

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UK immigration lawyer discloses how Nigerians can ‘japa’ with family

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 7, 2024

UK-based immigration lawyer Femi Aina has revealed the steps involved in allowing Nigerians to relocate their families to the country. Concurrently, on January 1st, the UK Home Office announced that it had begun implementing its policy that forbids overseas students—including those from Nigeria—from bringing in dependents using study visas. The Home Office reiterated in a

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Guinness World Record for longest painting marathon broken by Nigerian student

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 4, 2024

The latest Guinness World Record (GWR) holder for the longest painting marathon is Chancellor Ahaghotu, a Nigerian student at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Roland Palmaerts, a Belgian painter, had held the record since 2013 after painting for 60 hours, but Ahaghotu broke it with his 100 hours of […]

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Old students of Gumi College support re-introducing the school’s boarding system

Fadiran Ifeloluwa December 26, 2023

SOKOTO (Sundiata Scholar) – The Sheikh Abubakar Gumi Memorial College’s Old Students’ Association in Sokoto has demanded that the boarding system be restored and reinstated at the institution. Alhaji Sa’idu Sarkin Kabin-Yabo, the association’s chairman, made the announcement on Monday in Sokoto at the college’s 60th anniversary. He

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Laycon Pays University Students’ Tuition In Lagos Communities

Fadiran Ifeloluwa December 24, 2023

Olamilekan Massoud Al-Khalifah Agbeleshebioba, a.k.a. Laycon, is a Nigerian rapper and media figure who has taken up the commendable task of paying university tuition for youths in various areas in Lagos. In his most recent music video, “Shine,” the Big Brother Naija Season 5 winner and current young ambassador for Ogun State, demonstrated his generosity […]

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Nigerian student sentenced to 40 months in jail over threat to bomb UK varsity ; to be deported

Fadiran Ifeloluwa December 23, 2023

Somtochukwu Okwuoha, a Master’s student at Dundee University in Scotland, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison by a Sheriff Court in the United Kingdom. The 26-year-old international energy studies student received the sentence on Friday after it was determined that he had threatened to carry out acts of terrorism against faculty, staff, and […]