November 23, 2013

  (By Mairo Danlami) An Arizona school district is asking parents to help prevent school gun violence by signing a contract promising to lock their weapons. Flowing Wells Unified School District near Tucson recently sent home the gun violence contract as part of its 2013-2014 registration packet, according to the Arizona Daily Independent, a conservative […]

  Lina Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in Paurange, Peru, a small Andean village. However, depending on your beliefs, Lina had a very sad and shocking claim to fame. When she was just 5 years old, she became pregnant. Lina was just like any other little girl her age. She enjoyed playing with

  A video clip showing a primary school teacher in Edo State, Mrs. Augusta Odemwingie, who failed a reading test conducted by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, has continued to generate a debate on YouTube. The clip is currently the most viewed out of the 68 videos available on the state government’s YouTube channel. It has attracted

  While it is no longer news that prostitution is on the increase, teenage prostitution is a new phenomenon that is causing worry in the society. Teenagers of secondary school age seem to be competing with older women in a bid to sell their bodies to men. RUTH CHOJI writes about this growing societal malaise

  A university lecturer, Dr. Moses Mabayoje, has stressed the need to intensify efforts in the study and use of Yoruba language to guard against its extinction. Mabayoje, who is a Yoruba Language expert, said this while presenting 10 students, on a two-month course on Yoruba from two American universities, to the Vice-Chancellor, University of

  The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities. The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee on implementation