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Striking members of  Bauchi State chapter of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, have accused the supervising Minister of Education, Chief  Nyesom Wike, of gambling with the future of students in polytechnics in the country. According to them, Wike is only interested in his political ambition and has not shown enough commitment towards resolving the […]

A team of United States military officials will be arriving Nigeria today, May 9 to join forces with local security officials in the search and rescue mission for over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram. Speaking early Friday, the US Secretary of State John Kerry said, “Our inter-agency team is hitting the ground in Nigeria now

Students of Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, yesterday threatened violent protest should Governor Babatunde Fashola of the state fail to reduce the institution’s tuition fees from N348, 750 to N65, 500. At a briefing, the students’ union President, Nurudeen Yusuf, flanked by other leaders of the students, said the union had in its proposal to

A 28-year-old medical school student who had planned to auction off her virginity on the internet and had received a high bid of $801,000 now says she won’t go ahead with her part of the bargain. In a blog post today, the student, who goes by the name ‘Elizabeth Raine,’ writes that she won’t fulfil

A headteacher has been relieved of his duties after a video emerged on YouTube that allegedly captures the sound of people engaged in sexual activity at a secondary school in Wales. Governors at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe in Swansea have announced that the deputy headteacher has been placed in charge temporarily after the video

Soldiers on in­ternal security operation in the North Cen­tral part of the country have arrested a teenage member of the Boko-Haram sect. The boy, according to the Director, Defence In­formation, was arrested during a cordon-and-search operation at Any­ibe in Logo Local Gov­ernment Area of Benue State. Two rifles, three lo­cally fabricated pistols and 61 rounds

The leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Mujahid Dokubo Asari yesterday expressed his doubt over the veracity of abducted Chibok girls. The Niger Delta activist shared the status of one Tony Nwajei where controversial questions connected with the abduction were raised. According to Mujahid Dokubo Asari, these are “the right questions begging for answers”: why

#BringBackOurGirls has become the most popular hashtag in Nigeria this year, with the Twitter trend hitting over a million tweets. Used on social media as a way of demanding the return of over 200 schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014 in Chibok Borno State, the hashtag has gone from a local trend to receiving international

In an attempt to assist Nigeria on the unabated acts of terrorism and the increasing cases of kidnapping going on across the country, the US Special forces will any time soon storm Nigeria. According to reports, the major focus of the forces is to assist the country on the search-and-rescue operation of the abducted secondary

Nigerians police have offered a N48,429,000 ($300,000) cash reward to anyone who can help locate more than 200 abducted schoolgirls. They were kidnapped more than three weeks ago by armed Islamist militants from their boarding school in the north-eastern state of Borno. Another eight girls were taken on Sunday from a village near the militants’