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Time to Showcase your Spelling Skills at the Nigeria Spelling Bee Competition

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The Nigeria Spelling Bee is a multilingual spelling bee competition where spellers are drawn from every state in Nigeria to spell words from the English, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo languages. The Competition shall start from the State level. The indigenous languages words will not be used for elimination at the state level. (No speller will

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Police begins 24-hour patrol of Sokoto schools to prevent Boko Haram attacks

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Sokoto state police have begun a 24-hour patrol of all schools in the state in a bid to protect pupils and property from terrorists attacks, even as the Boko Haram sect remains a threat. The spokesperson of the Sokoto State Police Command, Al-Mustapha Sani, on Tuesday said the initiative was started to make sure that

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12-year-old boy gets 12 lashes for stealing neighbour’s N8,500 Nokia phone

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A 12-year-old student has been sentenced to 12 strokes of the cane by a Grade 1 Area Court at Nyanya, Abuja, for stealing his neighbour’s Nokia phone. The student (names withheld) was arraigned on a two count charge of theft and trespassing, punishable under sections 349 and 287 of the Penal Code Law. According to

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Polytechnic student jailed six months for dealing in illicit drug

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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old polytechnic student, Nwokeoma Adimoha, to six months imprisonment for dealing in illicit drug. The convict was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on a charge of dealing in illicit drug. He pleaded guilty to the offence. Justice Mohammed Idris sentenced him to

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Kano child bride ‘admits’ murdering her 35-year-old husband using rat poison

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A Nigerian child bride has ‘admitted’ murdering her 35-year-old husband with rat poison by signing a confession she could not read – with her thumbprint. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for 14-year-old Wasila Tasi’u, whose farmer husband Umar Sani was found dead just days after marrying her in April. If she is found guilty,

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Shocking: Teen girl, 13, wearing explosive vest arrested in Kano

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A 13-year-old girl was arrested on Wednesday after she and a male accomplice walked into a clinic seeking medical treatment. The location of the clinic — some 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) from the scene of a double suicide attack by two women on a textile market just hours earlier — raised suspicions. “We alerted the

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Lagos Student who created website for SSCE malpractices jailed for 8 months!

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An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old student, Abiodun Raheem, to eight months imprisonment for creating a Website to facilitate examination malpractices. According to Vanguard’s report, Justice Kudirat Jose handed the sentence to Raheem after he pleaded guilty to the offence during his re-arraignment. The convict had entered a plea bargain agreement with

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Police launch hunt for violent teacher who beat pupils with textbook so badly he fractured one child’s skull

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Chinese police are hunting a violent teacher who beat four terrified children with a textbook in his office. The pupils, the eldest of whom is just seven, were rushed to hospital after being found cowering and covered in blood by another member of staff at the school in Ankang in Shaanxi province. The art teacher,

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