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The Special Adviser to the President on Nigeria Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Committee, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has directed the withdrawal of six students under sponsorship of the Amnesty Programme over a violent attack on the Nigerian Mission in Russia on Monday. Kuku took the decision to withdraw the scholarship of the affected students after

For those unfamiliar with Jack Andraka, you should know one thing: He’s kind of a big deal. You may know him as the whiz kid who developed an early detection pancreatic cancer test, but before the 15-year-old became a superstar in the science community, he faced some bumps in the road. In an awesome two-minute

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has said it will go on a solidarity strike with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), if the Federal Government does not comply with the agreement it signed with the lecturers’ union. NUPENG accused the government of being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians.

A mother has said she is pulling her teenage son out of the Al-Madinah Muslim free school (USA) after claiming he was forced to cover his head and banned from looking at female students. Jacqueline Crossley, 53, has said her son, who she does not want to be identified, was the only non-religious pupil at

One hundred and thirty-eight Chief Supervising Principals, CSPs, recently appointed by Enugu State Government for various schools in the 17 local government areas of the state have been compulsorily retired for allegedly falsifying their ages. The list of those retired was released yesterday and pasted on the notice board of state Post Primary School Management

The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, yesterday, gave the Federal Government seven days to resolve the strike embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, or face a total shut down of electricity facilities in the country. The union said that it could no longer sit back and watch those in positions of

Osun State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN,  has given a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to reverse the merger of schools and return them to their original owners. The state government had, last week, commenced the merger of public primary and secondary schools in the state under its schools reclassification programme.

The season of the Milo Football Clinic ended on Saturday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City with 32 pupils from various schools in the city and environs securing scholarships. The scholarship awarded was for those who made the final selection and participated in the novelty match for the closing ceremony. Each member of

Research from the University of Southampton has shown that young adults, who are more outgoing or more emotionally stable, are happier in later life than their more introverted or less emotionally stable peers. In the study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, Dr Catharine Gale from the Medical Research Council’s Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit,

Zuriel Oduwole, a Nigeria wonder girl advocating for education for the girl child in Africa at the age of 10 already became the youngest person ever interviewed by Forbes. Now Zuriel is 11 and she has been appointed Ambassador in Tanzania. It was the girl’s second country stop on her East African leg to launch the acclaimed Dream