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  TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend warned that Nigeria’s educational system was facing imminent collapse and called on the three tiers of governments to urgently address problems confronting the sector before it became too late. Speaking at a national summit/dialogue on Education, Good Governance and National Unity organised by the Unity Schools Old […]

The mystery surrounding the death of a 15year old Nigerian boy in Ghanaian city of Tema is yet to be unravelled. According to report from the boy’s school, he drowned, but physical examination of body reveals wounds on the chin, head, leg, rib region. It was gathered that Austine was one of dozens of students

As the 2013 admission processes for various institutions gradually rounds up, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB has begun preparations to kick off the 2014 UTME registration and subsequently the Exams. This preparation is visible as the board uploads and shows off the brand new registration portal at http://www.jamb.org.ng/Unifiedtme/. According to reports,  the academic

Twelve underage children, who were among  the over 100 persons jailed on May 2 for minor environmental offences by the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Alausa have been released.  The children, who were among those raided by the state governments environmental task force in Oshodi, owed their release to the provisions of the Child

A primary school student in Lagos State has achieved an extraordinary feat and at the tender age of 9. Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, a primary 6 student of Role Model School in the Oregun area of the state recently became one of the world’s youngest Microsoft certified professionals. Jomiloju emerged first among the 21 candidates who took

An Ikeja High Court, yesterday, sentenced a 27-year-old woman, Chiamaka Nnajiofor, to 10 years imprisonment for her culpability in the death of her housekeeper, Oliver Arakwe. Justice Lateefat Okunnu convicted Nnajiofor for manslaughter instead of the charge of murder preferred against her. Nnajiofor and her husband, Elochukwu, 41, were charged to court by the Lagos

Amy Hunter, a professor at Uintah Basin Applied Technology College in Roosevelt, Utah, keeps her students engaged. Good thing, too, because the quick-thinking students recently saved her life.  Hunter, 36, has a congenital heart abnormality known as Ebstein’s malformation of the tricuspid valve. While Hunter was giving a lecture to her class, her heart stopped

  Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has directed the 27 sole administrators of local government areas in the state to set up a task force that will apprehend children of school age who hawk or loiter about during school hours. Governor Okorocha, who gave the directive at the Government House, recently, said that government

Frustrated by over four months of strike that has kept their future in the balance, leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS zone ‘B’ has given the members of the Academic Staff  Union of Universities (ASUU) seven days to call off strike and return to the class. The Union warned that at the

“He has confessed to the act; there is nothing to hide. He told me that he learnt about sex by watching blue (pornographic) films.” A 14-year-old boy is now under investigation over allegations that he raped a nine-year-old girl to death. It was revealed that she sustained injuries as a result of consistent rape. She