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A Vice-Principal and husband of three wives, Ibrahim Tukur have on Wednesday narrated how he got his student pregnant and who later delivered a baby boy for him in Katsina State. Tukur, a resident of Kadandani, Rimi local government area of Katsina State said he had been sexually abusing the teenage student for about eight months. Tukur ... Read more

Schools should only close as a last resort while research is under way into whether the new coronavirus variants affect children differently, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday. The debate on shutting schools during the Covid-19 pandemic has been revived by the emergence of more contagious virus mutations. The WHO said research had ... Read more

The Management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Wednesday asked students of the institution to remain at home following Edo government directive suspending schools resumption till further notice. The institution’s Acting Registrar, Clarkson Ehigiator in a statement, said ... Read more

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor ‘Biodun Ogunyemi, has revealed that not all ASUU members will benefit from the Federal Government approved N40 billion Earned Academic Allowance to university workers. He said the allowances covered only seven items under the 2009 Federal Government and ASUU agreement, ... Read more

A student of the University of Lagos, John Akinwale, who slumped after being assaulted by police officers in the Mosafejo area of Oshodi, Lagos State, on Monday, has narrated his ordeal, saying the policemen demanded N20,000 as bail. Akinwale had reportedly landed in the hospital after power-drunk policemen tortured him till he went into a ... Read more

THE number of out-of-school children in the country which stood at 10.1 million in 2019,reduced drastically to 6.946 million in 2020,the federal government has said. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this,Thursday,in Abuja,at the annual Ministerial press briefing on the ministry’s activities in 2020, attributed the ... Read more

The decision was taken on Thursday at an emergency meeting of the management, according to a statement by the Centre for Information Press and Public Relations, CIPPR. Following the decision, students are not expected on campus any time earlier than 6.30 am and must leave latest ... Read more

The Federal Government has said that the use of National Identification Number (NIN) is now a mandatory requirement for registration for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by candidates. Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who made this known, on Thursday, in Abuja during 2020 Ministerial press briefing, ordered the Joint ... Read more

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) will tomorrow host a former advisor to two former British Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, on Policy and Strategy, Ms Cat Tully. Ms Tully, who is the founder of the UK-based School of International Futures, will lead a webinar focused on discussions about repositioning academic institutions for ... Read more

The Nigeria Police Force has said it has begun investigating power-drunk policemen who tortured a University of Lagos student, John Akinwale, till he went into a coma in the Mosafejo, Oshodi area of Lagos State. The NPF Police Complaint Response Unit, Abuja, disclosed this via its Twitter handle on Tuesday. SaharaReporters had exclusively ... Read more