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  Some female students of Delta State secondary schools have turned to homosexual practices and have been taking lesbian acts to public and private schools across the state, according to Leadership Friday. It has been gathered that the young women have formed a ‘cult’ called Missing in Action, a community allegedly possessing “deadly charms and […]

  Every day, Mallam Yahaya goes to work at Government Secondary School, Mamudo, where he serves as the vice principal; to meet soldiers, a few teachers and no students. His life is a nightmare as he relives the massacre of twenty-two of his students and one teacher. Every day, since that tragic day – July

  When you’re looking to buy an Apple iPhone off a classified ad, you expect certain things. Like it having a working touchscreen. Like it actually being an Apple iPhone and not… just an apple. A woman made the dear mistake of buying two apples in an iPhone box when she really wanted two iPhones.

  (By Dotun Onimole) Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has been ranked as the best university in Nigeria and the eighth in Africa. A statement by the university’s Public Relations Department, on Monday, said the latest “web-o-metric ranking was conducted by a world renowned research council, Cybermetrics Lab, which is based in Spain.” Signed by the

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) Hundreds of women staged protests in West Bengal after an 11-year-old girl was soaked in kerosene and burned to death by men who tried to rape her. The youngster from Salkia in Howrah, near Kolkata in the eastern Indian state, died in hospital four days after neighbours found her in flames

  (By Mairo Danlami) Zuriel Oduwole, a ten-year-old Nigerian girl Zuriel Oduwole has made history as the youngest person ever to be interviewed in Forbes, the global iconic magazine title. The interview with the award-winning documentary film maker, conference speaker and writer is featured in the August 2013 edition of Forbes Africa. Touted as the

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) The West African Examination Council on Wednesday released the full results of 1,543,683 candidates who sat for its May/June 2013 Secondary School Certificate Examination. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the number represents 91.38 per cent of 1,689,188 candidates who registered for the examination. The Head of National Office (HNO)

  (By Mairo Danlami) Skye Bank Plc. has donated an equipped ultra-modern Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre valued at N600 million to the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the bank, Mr Kehinde Durosimi-Etti stated that the bank’s intervention is in line with its philosophy of supporting plausible, social

  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman who allegedly defiled a two-and-a half-year-old girl in Ilupeju area of Lagos. The suspect, identified as Funmi, is a teacher in an undisclosed nursery and primary school around Ilupeju. Sources revealed that Funmi allegedly inserted a fork into the little girl’s private part. It was gathered