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Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has donated cheques totalling N1.46 billion to mission primary schools for infrastructural development. Presenting the cheques in Awka, Obi commended the Church for their support in rebuilding the schools and urged them to remain steadfast in their support for government activities. He said his administration was making “final push”

A 22-year-old undergraduate of Caleb University, Lagos, Ugochukwu Agudosi, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos, for allegedly raping a lady in an uncompleted building in Ikeja metropolis. Agudosi, who is facing a four-count charge bordering on rape, was docked before Magistrate Sule Hamsat, Monday. Prosecutor, Inspector Roman Unuigbe, said that the offence

The universities ranking list is here again. If you are in Nigeria and you want to know what number your university is on the list, don’t bother “No university in Nigeria made the top 1000, but you can check the lists to see how the schools of your choice fared. The annual Global Universities’ ranking

The end of the world is not nigh. Life will thrive on Earth for at least another 1.75billion years and perhaps as many as 3.5billion. Beyond then, the Sun will have become so hot that nothing will be able to survive, scientists believe. Ever since it was formed, our planet has been at just the

Students at the Yaba College of Technology this morning shut down the institution to protest a vicious attack on one of the students by an unnamed assailant identified simply as a member of a cult group. The stabbing attack took place last night. We learnt that the college’s students began their protests around 10 p.m.

65 percent credit pass recorded in 2013 National Examinations Council (NECO) result After three years of consecutive mass failure at Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), National Examinations Council (NECO) on Thursday  announced that 69.57 per cent candidates had five credits and above in the June/July 2013. Announcing this year’s school based examination in Minna, the

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Dreaming is part of every good night’s sleep — but why do we dream? And how do we dream? Recent research reveals that our dreams are our mind at work, organising and making sense of memories, sort of like “overnight therapy.” “I think what we’ll see from this kind of research is really a lot

The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions will be wholly computer-based by 2015, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. The registrar of JAMB, Dibu Ojerinde, stated this in Akure on Monday at an advocacy campaign on the advantages of the Computer-Based Test (CBT). According to the registrar, “any person who can use the mobile

An entry exam for one of France’s top legal schools is to be rerun because some candidates were allowed to go to the toilet during the five-hour test. Toulouse University confirmed on Monday that one of the examinations for would-be entrants to its law school would have to be taken again by every candidate because