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Benue State governor, Mr Gabriel Suswam, yesterday directed the management of the Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi to reopen the institution and announced the decisions of the state government to suspend payment of salaries to lecturers and sack lecturers that failed to comply. The BSU lecturers joined their counterparts across the country to observe the […]

An 18-year-old girl was reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Benin. According to News sources, Chinyere Onorfue checked into a hotel with a man, Emmanuel Ajayi on the 19th of August and was found dead at about 8pm on the same day, with her throat slashed. Police investigation led to the capture and

Little Elliot Prior, 4, and his sister Amelie, 6, were both with their mother Amber at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall when the masked terrorist gunmen stormed the complex over the weekend.  In an attempt to protect his family, little Elliot, from Windsor, Berkshire in England, displayed incredible bravery when he confronted a jihadist, who was

  The moon just got younger – by a few hundred million years. Scientists now claim that the moon is around 4.4 and 4.45 billion years old, rather than the 4.56 billion years previously thought. Despite being the nearest body to the Earth, astronomers are still not sure precisely how or when it formed. One

It is a classic conundrum and a yardstick of morality – if you found an abandoned wallet, would you give it back? But while everyone would have their own reasons for keeping or returning a lost item, a new study has revealed which cities worldwide have the best record for acts of honesty. A total

They’re not quite ready to crack the country’s fiscal fiasco, or solve world hunger for that matter. However, India Pyzel and Isabella Walker do have something to say about the dress code at Kahuku High and Intermediate School – both girls believe it goes too far. Under a policy set forth by the school’s community

A rift that has torn students of Nigerian institutions of higher learning manifested itself at the University of Lagos when protesters organised by the Joint Campus Committee (JCC) of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) were yesterday barred from gaining entrance into the University of Lagos. The protesters made good on their threat to

Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced that they’ve approved new weights for the elements thanks to more precise measurements and better calculations of the abundance of certain isotopes (atoms of an

A total of twenty graduates of the Redeemer’s University (RUN), Mowe, Ogun State, bagged First Class Honours degree at the recent fifth convocation of the Institution, held at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Youth Centre Camp. The event featured the award of first degrees to a total of 519 graduands across the three

A teacher, Augustine Akpan, who allegedly fondled the breasts of his pupil, an 11-year old girl, has been remanded in prison custody by an Ikeja Senior Magistrate’s Court sitting at Abule Egba, Lagos. The police arraigned 30-year-old Akpan before the court on a two-count charge of indecent assault and fondling the breasts of his pupil.