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The universities ranking list is here again. If you are in Nigeria and you want to know what number your university is on the list, don’t bother “No university in Nigeria made the top 1000, but you can check the lists to see how the schools of your choice fared. The annual Global Universities’ ranking […]

  Imagine seeing your mum turned a street fighter. Horrible, right? That’s exactly what some ‘supposed’ honourable members of the House of Representatives turned into yesterday. Boxers! Exhibiting their prowess in launching upper-cuts. Regardless of what might have happened, where was self-control? It was really awful for those folks to have disgraced the nation like

A student in eastern China’s Jiangxi province murdered his chemistry teacher for taking away his mobile phone during a lesson. The student, identified as Lei by local mass media, was playing with his phone during a chemistry lesson at a school in Fuzhou. His teacher, Mr. Sun Wakang noticed this, and confiscated the device. It

The end of the world is not nigh. Life will thrive on Earth for at least another 1.75billion years and perhaps as many as 3.5billion. Beyond then, the Sun will have become so hot that nothing will be able to survive, scientists believe. Ever since it was formed, our planet has been at just the

Students at the Yaba College of Technology this morning shut down the institution to protest a vicious attack on one of the students by an unnamed assailant identified simply as a member of a cult group. The stabbing attack took place last night. We learnt that the college’s students began their protests around 10 p.m.

A 13-year-old girl has made some shocking confessions on how her biological father, Stephen Chimaraobi, and his friend, Paul Oha, raped her for seven years in their Ojodu home in Lagos State. The police at Grammar School Division, Ojodu, conducted immediate arrest upon hearing this story. 42-year-old Chimaraobi, from Delta State, has remained single after

65 percent credit pass recorded in 2013 National Examinations Council (NECO) result After three years of consecutive mass failure at Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), National Examinations Council (NECO) on Thursday  announced that 69.57 per cent candidates had five credits and above in the June/July 2013. Announcing this year’s school based examination in Minna, the

A school sent a teenage girl into isolation because she dyed her hair red. Natalya Page, 14, was and told she could not attend lessons at Kenton Academy, in Kenton, Newcastle, until she had her hair dyed back to its natural colour. Teachers told her she would need to sit on her own with her

  It’s an old age question pondered by some of the greatest minds in the playground. Who would win: a crocodile or a shark? Now a British tourist has given a definitive answer to the riddle by capturing the moment one of the powerful reptiles munched on its aquatic rival. Holidaymaker Peter Jones, 62, witnessed

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