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No fewer than 12 persons have been confirmed dead with five rushed to the hospital following a boat mishap  in Festac, Lagos on Tuesday. The incident was said to have occurred at a river at fourth avenue, opposite 41 road junction at about 11:10pm.It was learnt that the location were the mishap occurred has been […]

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reiterated its call to President Goodluck Jonathan to take time off his premature electioneering campaign to visit Yobe State to condole with the bereaved families of the innocent pupils that were killed in cold blood by Boko Haram gunmen last month. In a statement issued in Lagos on

A 15-year old boy was on Monday charged to an Upper Area Court sitting in Mararaba, Nasarawa State for stealing 280 fowls. Mr Aligwiwade Paul had on Oct. 3, 2012, approached the Nasarawa Senior Magistrate’s Court over the alleged theft of his 280 birds valued at N336, 000 by the accused. He said that each of the

  The suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, said his suspension by President Goodluck Jonathan came few days to his move to trace missing $20bn oil money. Sanusi said this in in an interview published in New York Times on Monday. The CBN Governor said he had already threatened open the

An Arkansas Middle School teacher has apologised after accidentally showing her pupils a home-made sex tape. The explicit video showed the female teacher “performing sex acts” on her fiancé, KARK-TV reported. She said the steamy video had got mixed up with her lesson notes. The incident happened last week at Forest Heights Middle School, Little

The supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike has criticised members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Port Harcourt chapter, for boycotting lectures. The lecturers staged the boycott for alleged negligence on the part of Federal Government. Students of the University were all stranded Monday morning on getting to campus as some

A student, Ekumah Emeka, on Tuesday, appeared before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, over an alleged internet fraud of N1, 340, 000. Emeka, 24, a 200-level student of Architecture at the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Anambra State, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. The Prosecutor, Cpl. Adekemi Adeniran, told the court

  The teacher accused of Sellotaping over the mouths of a class of ten-year-olds to keep them quiet says it was a ‘game’ that the youngsters suggested and enjoyed. Priscilla Davo is said to be ‘devastated’ by the furore following the incident. She has been suspended from teaching Spanish and art while Danesfield Church of

New research suggests that girls’ brains are more “resilient” than boys to neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. The cohort study found evidence supporting the “female protective model”, a theory that suggests that females require more extreme genetic mutations than males before they develop certain sorts of disorders. This would account for the gender difference for

Thirteen students of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Ogba, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, fainted as a result of inhaling an unidentified poisonous fumes coming from the nearby cottage factory in Ogba Shopping Arcade. This incident took place just a few months after students of the same school collapsed after inhaling an unidentified chemical waste discharged