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  Apparently disturbed by the several crises which led to the closure of Lagos State University (LASU), the Lagos State Government has again responded to the question over the increment of school fees saying quality tertiary education can’t be got cheaply.  “LASU is not funded by the tuition fees paid by the students. It is […]

  At first glance Ajifa Khatun could be any little girl, playing with her brothers and sisters and getting a hug from her doting mother. But although Ajifa looks like a toddler, she is in fact 19, having stopped growing just before her second birthday. Ajifa weighs just 1st 3lbs, and still needs to be

    Next time you struggle to stop yourself scratching a rash or itch, the key could be to look into the mirror, scientists say. German researchers have discovered that the brain can easily be fooled into thinking relief is at hand. In a series of experiments using large mirrors, the team found scratching the

  A girl whose brain was accidentally injected with glue during treatment at a UK Hospital is to receive a multi-million-pound damages payout after she was left with devastating permanent brain damage. Despite having a rare medical condition that involved arteries and veins getting tangled, which could result in a bleed, Maisha Najeeb, of Ilford,

An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced an undergraduate, Damola Ekundayo, to 18 months imprisonment for being in possession of documents used for facilitating Internet fraud. Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye handed the sentence to Ekundayo, 27, after he pleaded guilty to a three-count charge bordering on the offence during his re-arraignment. The judge convicted Ekundayo, who

  MEN of the Delta State Police command have arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of his grandmother. Ironically, the abductors also took away the boy along with the grandmother and another victim in the process of kidnap but dropped off the accused before getting to their hideout. It was also not

A Nigerian undergraduate, who used his tuition fee to buy a hard drug, has been arrested for drug trafficking, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said in a statement, weekend. NDLEA said the suspect, Udiomeh Kufre Ita, a student of the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Regent University in Ghana, was arrested at the

  The management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has closed the state-owned university indefinitely following what it termed ‘violent protest by the students”. This decision was contained in a bulletin, dated 23rd January, 2013, titled LASU management Closes University indefinitely. The statement reads, “In the wake of the violent protest by some affected students

  There was pandemonium at the Upper Court 4 in Anguwan Jaki, Bauchi State, yesterday, as an angry  mob almost lynched seven suspected homosexuals brought to the court for trial. One of the suspects was identified as the Principal of a Government Secondary School in the state. The development forced security personnel at the court

  Etisalat has announced the 2013 shortlist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the shortlisted nominees are: “Bom Boy” by Yewande Omotoso, “Finding Soutbek” by Karen Jennings and “We need new names” by NoViolet Bulawayo. The Etisalat Prize for Literature is the first Pan-African literary prize created to recognise and reward debut fiction writers in Africa.