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The officers of Akwa Ibom police stopped a suicide attempt by a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Ekiti State University on April 9, 2014, Wednesday. Failed self-murderer, identified as Sunday Omotayo, jumped out of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by oncoming vehicles on the road leading to Ibom Plaza, Uyo.

Anambra State has emerged the overall best in the 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The official WAEC result, made available to The PUNCH, on Thursday, show that Ghana came first among West African countries while Anambra State came first among states in Nigeria followed by Abia, Rivers and Lagos states. The breakdown of

Akintunde Ahmad, a 17-year old Nigerian student at Oakland Tech in Oakland, who got a 5.0 GPA and 2,100 on the SAT, has received numerous offer to study in some of America’s top colleges like Yale, Columbia and Brown. While some people are still in shock over his accomplishments, the star student athlete notes in

Los Angeles (USA) students think some schools deserve more attention and resources. They staged a protest and took it to the streets. And they brought their desks with them. Some 375 empty desks blocked a downtown street. It stopped traffic for several hours outside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s offices. Organizers say the number

Students of Yaba College of Technology and members of Education Right Campaign (ERC) yesterday protested  the prolonged strike action embarked upon by public polytechnic lecturers. The students took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to register their grievances on the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) industrial action, and  called on federal government to

  Students of Yaba College of Technology and members of Education Right Campaign (ERC) yesterday protested  the prolonged strike action embarked upon by public polytechnic lecturers. The students took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to register their grievances on the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) industrial action, and  called on federal government

An American high school student stabbed or slashed 20 people, mostly teenagers, in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburg high school on Wednesday, officials said. Several had life threatening injuries, Chris Kaufmann, the trauma medical director at Forbes Regional Hospital, told CNN. The attack at Franklin Regional High School

  Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, has ordered the arrest of three secondary school teachers for allegedly forging the signatures of their respective principals as having nominated them to supervise the May/June Senior School Certificate examination. Muoboghare said: “Their action borders on criminality and therefore they deserved to be