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Scores of final year students of Lagos State University, (LASU), Ojo, on Monday resumed as directed by the institution’s management amid tight security. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students were seen discussing in groups on the campus. The authorities had on January 23 closed down the institution following a violent student […]

  A 100-level medical student of the University of Ibadan (UI), Ogueze Chinyere, sustained serious burns on Monday after her cooking gas exploded. The incident happened at about 8:02pm at I Block of the Queen Elizabeth II female hostel. According to an eyewitness, Gbemisola Akinyo, Chinyere wanted to cook in the evening but her camping

  WELCOME to the First Edition of Passnownow Tweets of the Week. This column summarises our interview with important personalities on Twitter. Today, our interviewee was Ogunyemi Bukola (@zebbook) – the famous young Nigerian with an overwhelming passion for teaching and writing. The focus of the discussion was Nigerian Teenagers and 2015 general elections Below

  The Govenor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, has approved the immediate reopening of the Lagos State University (LASU) for normal academic activities. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr Hakeem Bello, revealed this to newsmen in Ikeja on February 21, 2014, Friday. According to the statement, the reopening was in the interest

A 14-year-old boy, Toheeb Idowu, has drowned in a swimming pool belonging to Romeo Suites and Apartment in Ipaja, Lagos State. Toheeb’s mother, Moriamo said that she was merely told her son fell into the pool and got drowned, adding that attempts to get further details had been frustrated. She said the management of the

  A mother-of-three has told how she’s set to become a millionaire thanks to a beauty storage unit her seven-year-old son invented. Marcy McKenna, 44, from California, was looking for a solution for the grooming products cluttering the bathroom and jokingly asked her son, Jack, to build something out of Lego (Lego is a construction

Stakeholders in Nigeria’s education sector have said that government’s inability to alleviate the fundamental challenges in the sector is responsible for the poor performance of students in the qualifying examinations organised by the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the West African Examination Council. Leading this call was the WAEC Chairman, Professor Pai Obanya, who was