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  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday rejected the Federal Government’s new offer of enhanced academic allowances, insisting that government should first implement in full the 2009 agreement before any other negotiation could take place. National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, said after consultations with branch chairmen of the union on the […]

  More than a third of teen guys and girls say they’ve been physically, emotionally or sexually abused in their dating relationships, according to new, unpublished data from a nationwide survey. Similar numbers of both sexes say they’ve been abusers. Additional new research shows teens who abuse their girlfriends and boyfriends often share a past

The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that successful candidates at the various 2013 post-UTME examinations to government owned Universities may not be recognised if offered admission from the exercise. The union also described as cheap “political statement” the pronouncement of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State that the strike would be

  The court upturned the ruling of a lower court. The Court of Appeal on Wednesday ruled that Lead City University, an Ibadan-based private university, had been running its Law programme illegally. The three-man panel of judges, in a judgement that lasted about three hours, upturned an earlier decision of an Oyo State High Court

  (By Dotun Onimole) A nine-year-old boy has made the headlines as he broke past barriers to run into Pope Francis’ arms in order to tell him something that moved the pontiff to tears. A video captures what is surely one of the most poignant moments of the Pope’s last Friday’s trip to Rio for

  Rebecca Bassey, a 21-year-old woman has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly beating her husband’s three year old niece to death. The victim, Deborah Bassey was said to have been beaten to death for vomiting and defecating on herself. According to sources, “The victim (Deborah) lost her mother in 2010. Early this year,

  (By Folksy) This is what you want from a math teacher. The word problem you see here is what happened after a student was caught using his phone during math class. The teacher confiscated the phone, and set the passcode to a certain number, found by answering the problem. It reads: A car dealer

(By Mairo Danlami) Students of tertiary institutions in Ondo State have called for the sack of the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqquayatu Rufai, over the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has paralysed the academic calendar for over a month throughout the country. The students organised a protest

  (By Mairo Danlami) The Plateau State Police Command, on Wednesday, said it had arrested a 17-year-old minor, who allegedly killed her husband over his intimacy urges. The deceased, Lawal Bala (26) was allegedly strangled by the minor as he slept on their matrimonial bed on July 8, 2013. The minor, who is in police custody where she

  (By Dotun Onimole) A 10-year-old artist from Holt, Norfolk, a county in the East of England, about 206Km from London by road, has made an estimated £1.5 million (about 375 million Naira) from his paintings over five years! According to the BBC, Kieron Williamson first became known aged seven when his first exhibition sold