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Police revealed that 56-year-old Father W. Jeffrey Paulish was caught in the act as they found the boy (who was not wearing pants) in a car on a University campus. When he was caught, the priest initially said he was working on his homily on campus when he met the boy, whom he said was […]

Dreaming is part of every good night’s sleep — but why do we dream? And how do we dream? Recent research reveals that our dreams are our mind at work, organising and making sense of memories, sort of like “overnight therapy.” “I think what we’ll see from this kind of research is really a lot

An Abuja Customary Court sitting at Jiwa, yesterday ordered one William Thomas, a school teacher to pay N40, 000 as damages for impregnating a secondary school student out of wedlock. He was also ordered by the judge to pay a monthly maintenance fee of N10,000 for the baby’s upkeep. Thomas was arraigned following a complaint

The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions will be wholly computer-based by 2015, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. The registrar of JAMB, Dibu Ojerinde, stated this in Akure on Monday at an advocacy campaign on the advantages of the Computer-Based Test (CBT). According to the registrar, “any person who can use the mobile

An entry exam for one of France’s top legal schools is to be rerun because some candidates were allowed to go to the toilet during the five-hour test. Toulouse University confirmed on Monday that one of the examinations for would-be entrants to its law school would have to be taken again by every candidate because

A 17-year-old was sentenced on Tuesday to reformative training for sexual offences involving two underage girls. Peh Jun Jie committed the offences between April and September last year, when he was 16. The girls cannot be named to protect their identity. The prosecution proceeded on two charges and took the remaining three into consideration. Reformative

Parents are damaging their children’s literacy by abandoning reading with them too soon – typically by the age of seven – according to research. Around two-thirds of six year olds enjoy bedtime stories or other recreational reading with an adult. But that plummets to 44 per cent among children who are just a year older

Scientists in the US claim to have discovered how humans are able to use their imagination to create art, invent tools and think scientifically Scientists claim to have discovered how and where human imagination comes from. Researchers in the US say the ability to create art, invent tools and think scientifically comes from a neural

Screening of candidates, who made University of Ibadan their first and/or second choice institution and are duly registered for the Post-UTME screening exercise will hold on Saturday 28 September, 2013 at 11.00 am. Prospective candidates are advised to log in to the Post-UTME portal using their existing usernames and passwords to check their details from

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday said that the introduction of Computer-Based Test (CBT) in its examinations would curb examination malpractice. Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB’s Registrar, said this in Ondo at the first technical meeting of the board on 2013/2014 admission to Nigeria National Diploma and National Innovative Diploma awarding institutions. The