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First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan has said that Nigerians must ensure that a significant percentage of the country’s young people, especially girls, acquire university education. “There is a popular saying that if you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation,” she said during a visit

Terrified students have fled boarding schools after an attack by suspected Boko Haram extremists in which 43 students were shot and hacked to death and the whole school razed. Students refused to stay overnight in their schools and colleges in the wake of the attack on the Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe state

  Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State,  weekend, approved the sum of N51 million for the repairs of damaged property and facilities in Lagos State University, LASU, which was incurred in the wake of students’ unrest on January 23, 2014 over the closure of the institution’s portal. The governor also directed the immediate re-opening of

After 19 rounds in a Missouri county’s (USA) annual spelling bee over the weekend, only two of the 25 contestants who started the competition remained. Talk about being “at a loss for words!” Several hours and 47 rounds later, an 11-year-old and her 13-year-old adversary had used up all of the available words, forcing organizers

Scores of final year students of Lagos State University, (LASU), Ojo, on Monday resumed as directed by the institution’s management amid tight security. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students were seen discussing in groups on the campus. The authorities had on January 23 closed down the institution following a violent student

  A 100-level medical student of the University of Ibadan (UI), Ogueze Chinyere, sustained serious burns on Monday after her cooking gas exploded. The incident happened at about 8:02pm at I Block of the Queen Elizabeth II female hostel. According to an eyewitness, Gbemisola Akinyo, Chinyere wanted to cook in the evening but her camping

  WELCOME to the First Edition of Passnownow Tweets of the Week. This column summarises our interview with important personalities on Twitter. Today, our interviewee was Ogunyemi Bukola (@zebbook) – the famous young Nigerian with an overwhelming passion for teaching and writing. The focus of the discussion was Nigerian Teenagers and 2015 general elections Below

  The Govenor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, has approved the immediate reopening of the Lagos State University (LASU) for normal academic activities. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr Hakeem Bello, revealed this to newsmen in Ikeja on February 21, 2014, Friday. According to the statement, the reopening was in the interest

  Being creative is seen as a positive trait, especially in the school, but beware – creative types are more likely to be liars and cheats, according to research. During tests, researchers at Harvard Business School discovered almost 60 per cent of people who lied about scores in one experiment scored highly for creativity in

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic Ofa branch, on Wednesday said it had pulled out of the ongoing nationwide strike by the union. The Chairman, ASUP, Federal Polytechnic Ofa, Dr Shola Ojeniyi, in a telephone interview said that they would now resume “normal academic activities on Monday, Feb. 24’’. He said the