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One hundred and thirty-eight Chief Supervising Principals, CSPs, recently appointed by Enugu State Government for various schools in the 17 local government areas of the state have been compulsorily retired for allegedly falsifying their ages. The list of those retired was released yesterday and pasted on the notice board of state Post Primary School Management […]

A maths teacher who offered schoolgirls £300 to pose topless and sent naked pictures of himself to a 16-year-old girl has been jailed for more than two years. Neil Mason, 28 – who taught at The Heath School in Runcorn, Cheshire (UK) – made sexual suggestions to girls, often texting under a pseudonym and using

In fulfilment of its renowned Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative towards children, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie Instant Noodles has unveiled three lucky winners for this year’s Indomie Independence Day Awards (IIDA) and rewarded them with cash prizes worth N2.25 million. Mr Haresh Aswani, Chairman, Dufil Prima Foods during the presentation of the awards

The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, yesterday, gave the Federal Government seven days to resolve the strike embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, or face a total shut down of electricity facilities in the country. The union said that it could no longer sit back and watch those in positions of

The Ekiti State Police Command arraigned six teenagers in an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for alleged secret cult membership. The six suspects were identified as Awotile Yemi (18), Ogundana Adesina (18), Jamiu Seun (18), Ogunleye Olumide (18), Daramola Damilola (19), and Omolayo Sunday (18). Cpl. Olasunkanmi Bamikole, the Police prosecutor, told the court that the accused

Osun State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN,  has given a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to reverse the merger of schools and return them to their original owners. The state government had, last week, commenced the merger of public primary and secondary schools in the state under its schools reclassification programme.

Tens of thousands of explicit self-portraits taken by teenagers are ending up on websites viewed by paedophiles. The naked or sexual pictures are often taken by girls at the request of boys in their classes and sent by mobile phone, in a practice known as ‘sexting’. But unbeknown to the girls, these photographs may end

The season of the Milo Football Clinic ended on Saturday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City with 32 pupils from various schools in the city and environs securing scholarships. The scholarship awarded was for those who made the final selection and participated in the novelty match for the closing ceremony. Each member of

Research from the University of Southampton has shown that young adults, who are more outgoing or more emotionally stable, are happier in later life than their more introverted or less emotionally stable peers. In the study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, Dr Catharine Gale from the Medical Research Council’s Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit,

A 20-year-old student committed suicide at his house in Goregaon (India) on Friday. The deceased, Amit Dubey, was reportedly depressed with his poor performance in an exam and feared failure. The Goregaon police have found a note in the house that was written by Dubey, stating that no one should be held responsible for his