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  Governor Babatunde Fashola has commended the skills and enterprise of students who engage in traffic trading stating that it takes high level of mental coordination and expertise to trade in the traffic without hazards. He said; “I have travelled to many places in the world, but I have not seen where youths trading on […]

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) Former Assistant Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Benin, Mr. Isu-Ochiora Okogeri, has been arraigned before a Benin High Court for allegedly accepting a bribe to facilitate the transfer of a female student to the Faculty of Law of the university. The university teacher is being charged on a one-count charge

  (By Ucheschukwu Udoji) The beheading of a 17-year-old girl, Chioma Emeka Ikwuagwu, by unknown killers has caused tension between Ameke and Ukome communities in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. The late Chioma hails from Ameke but lived with her parents at Ukome, where she was killed. The bereaved community of Ameke

  (By Mairo Danlami) The Oyo State Police Command yesterday paraded a student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, for allegedly kidnapping a two-year-old girl.  Addressing newsmen at Eleyele headquarters of the command, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Indabawa said the suspect was arrested following a distress call and he was

  (By Dotun Onimole) A surge in gang violence has prompted education officials in South Africa’s Western Cape Province to close 16 schools for two days. At least 50 people are reported to have been wounded or killed after being shot in areas of Cape Town’s Manenberg suburb in recent weeks. Provincial Premier Helen Zille

  (By Mairo Danlami) An Arizona school district is asking parents to help prevent school gun violence by signing a contract promising to lock their weapons. Flowing Wells Unified School District near Tucson recently sent home the gun violence contract as part of its 2013-2014 registration packet, according to the Arizona Daily Independent, a conservative

  Lina Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in Paurange, Peru, a small Andean village. However, depending on your beliefs, Lina had a very sad and shocking claim to fame. When she was just 5 years old, she became pregnant. Lina was just like any other little girl her age. She enjoyed playing with

  A video clip showing a primary school teacher in Edo State, Mrs. Augusta Odemwingie, who failed a reading test conducted by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, has continued to generate a debate on YouTube. The clip is currently the most viewed out of the 68 videos available on the state government’s YouTube channel. It has attracted

  While it is no longer news that prostitution is on the increase, teenage prostitution is a new phenomenon that is causing worry in the society. Teenagers of secondary school age seem to be competing with older women in a bid to sell their bodies to men. RUTH CHOJI writes about this growing societal malaise

  A university lecturer, Dr. Moses Mabayoje, has stressed the need to intensify efforts in the study and use of Yoruba language to guard against its extinction. Mabayoje, who is a Yoruba Language expert, said this while presenting 10 students, on a two-month course on Yoruba from two American universities, to the Vice-Chancellor, University of