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A teacher who had an affair with a 16-year-old pupil yesterday told of the ‘ten days of madness’ which culminated in her spending the night in his bed.  Married Bernadette Smith, 35, kissed and cuddled Gary Ralston after the teenager’s father invited her into their home – but said she kept a tiny vest top […]

During the Christ embassy’s Communion Service yesterday, Pastor chris Oyakhilome answered the question: ‘Can a baby that is a product of rape be aborted?’ and the pastor answered the question using David And Bathseba’s story in the bible as a reference; He said despite David’s prayer and fasting, the child who was a result of David’s

The Second Edition of the Social Media Week Lagos which hosted Africa’s largest Social Media gathering has just rounded up in the past week. Passnownow.com’s “How Nigerian Secondary School Students are going digital” which was the only Education Focused Event will surely be remembered as one of the highest points of the 2014 Social Media Week in Lagos.

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

A woman teacher who spent the night in her student’s bed  wearing only her jeans and bra has narrowly avoided a prison sentence. The teacher, Bernadette Smith, was said to be infatuated with Gary Ralston, who was 16 at the time. That obsession cost the married 35-year-old her job and reputation, a court heard. Gary,

  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

  An eight-year-old boy was bitten by a deadly funnel web spider after he mistook the live creature for a fake plastic toy. Brayden Martz, from Saratoga on the Central Coast of New South Wales, was trying to scare his 11-year-old brother Ryan by picking up what he thought was a fake spider. But the

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