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The immediate past vice-president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has emerged as the new president of the union. A professor of soil science at the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Osodeke was elected president of the union during a three-day conference, which held at the Nnamdi ... Read more

Police in Butaleja District in eastern Uganda have arrested a 31-year-old teacher for allegedly eloping with his 16-year-old student. The suspect, identified as John Omondi, allegedly eloped with one of his students at Mabale Primary School in Butaleja Sub-county in January this year, before he got her pregnant. His arrest came after some ... Read more

Eleven of the Islamiyya students kidnapped by unidentified men at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State on Sunday, May 30, have been released. A statement released by Mary Noel-Berje, the Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, said the students released by the gunmen were said to have been too small and could not engage in the long walk enforced on the abducted students by ... Read more

A teenager, whose teacher had sex with him, told cops he is furious with his mother for exposing the illicit relationship. Abby Dibbs, 35, of Cross Plains, is now facing serious charges after admitting she had sex with the 17-year-old at her home in Wisconsin, USA. The now-former Portage High School teacher has been charged with two counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff. ... Read more

The registrar of the National Examination Council NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead. Unconfirmed reports claim he was murdered in his Minna home by some unidentified gunmen who invaded his apartment and strangled him last night, May 31. The killers allegedly left without taking any of his properties. Another source however claims he was ill and was rushed to a hospital in Abuja where ... Read more

A teacher in Alabama, who was named the 2019 Teacher of the Year, has died by apparent suicide two days after being arrested for having sex with teen students. Leslie Gillespie, 44, was found dead at her Hillsboro home on Saturday morning, May 29, from what authorities said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The English teacher, who was a staff member at R.A. Hubbard High School in ... Read more

One Danladi Shu’aib, a 20-year-old student in Kano state reportedly set himself ablaze in Garo town of Kabo Local Government Area of the State, after all his efforts to raise money to pay for his National Examination Council (NECO), exam failed. It was gathered that before taking the drastic move, Shu’aib had written the exams ... Read more

The JAMB has stated that the poor results recorded in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are not due to the “wrong syllabus” given to candidates as being circulated. This was made known in a statement by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin. He said the questions set for the 2021 UTME are ... Read more

The management of the University of Benin has commended Philip Okafor, a 200-level student of the Department of Microbiology for his exemplary behavior. The student was conferred with the Dean’s special prize which would exempt him from paying school fees throughout his remaining period of undergraduate studies in the faculty. A ... Read more

The Council of Legal Education of the Nigerian Law School has released the examination statistics for the 2021 final bar examinations and, of the 5,770 students who sat for the exams, 1,326 candidates failed the exams. Out of the 5,770 candidates, 20 students representing (0.07%) made first-class while 432 (7.49%) and 2,172 (37.64%) students ... Read more