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  • Female student emerges best graduate with 5.0 CGPA at Bell’s University convocation

    Female student emerges best graduate with 5.0 CGPA at Bell’s University convocation

    Miss Rahmat Arogundade, a graduate of Mechatronics Engineering in the College of Engineering, has emerged the best graduating student of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun state, with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0.

    This was one of the highlights of the 14th convocation of the university where various degrees, including doctorates, were conferred and prizes presented to the graduates.

    No fewer than 823 students graduated, with 47 of them bagging First Class Honours degrees; 422 Second Class Upper, 309 Second Class Lower and 45 awarded Third Class Honours.

    177 postgraduate students obatained degrees in different fields in the 2021/2022 academic session.

    Speaking at the occasion on Saturday,, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, stressed the need for the Federal Government to properly fund higher education to improve the quality of tertiary and other levels of education in the country.

    The vice chancellor noted that education was one of the fundamental factors of national development, adding that indisputably,it served as a major agent of transformation and development all through human history.

    He noted that no country could achieve a sustainable economic development without substantial investment in human capital.

    “Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and the world and at the same time provides the much desired impetus for development.

    “It is the time for the Federal Government to wake up to its duties and responsibilities in properly funding higher education in the country.” he said.

    Ojediran emphasised the need for government to give due respect and attention to the education sector through proper funding of the higher education to achieve a sustainable national development.

    In his address of welcome, the President and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the institution, Dr Kola Jamodu, said that the institution had recorded remarkable achievements since its inception in 2005.

    Jamodu said that this could not have been achieved without the support of the founding fathers of the institution.

    He commended former president Olusegun Obasanjo for his inspiring vision and great contributions to education in the country.

  • 24-year-old final year varsity student gives birth to 5 babies

    24-year-old final year varsity student gives birth to 5 babies

    A 24-year-old, 400-level student of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia, Miss Oluomachi Nwojo, has been delivered of a set of quintuplets.

    The student of Environmental Management, a native of Abriba in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia, was delivered of the babies on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia through caesarean section.

    Oluomachi had two baby boys and three girls.

    She expressed happiness at the delivery of her babies and described it as a wonderful experience.

    “This is my first delivery and I am grateful to God for making me a partaker of this wonderful blessing.

    “I believe God knows the best for my children; I am feeling fine and gradually recuperating from the birth of my babies.

    “I am calling on the government and good spirited individuals to help me in training the babies because I cannot carry the burden alone.

    “At this stage I need assistance to buy milk and other necessities for the babies,’’ she said.

    Director of Protocol at the hospital, Mr Darlington Madubuko, told than that the delivery of the set of quintuplets was a first of multiple deliveries at the facility in the recent past.

    “The hospital records more than 50 multiple births annually and our staff are well trained to successfully handle such cases.

    “We have had quadruplets before now, but this is the first time the hospital is recording the birth of quintuplets in the recent past.

    “The two male babies are in the neo-natal unit of the hospital receiving treatment and the three female babies are with their mother in the postnatal ward,’’ Madubuko said.

    He added that the hospital management was pleased with the birth of the babies, adding that it further encouraged the hospital’s efforts to deliver premium services to its clients.

  • Court sentences KWASU student to 3 years in prison

    Court sentences KWASU student to 3 years in prison

    A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced one Aderibigbe Shehu, a student of Kwara State University, (KWASU), Malete, to three years in prison over internet fraud.

    The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction.

    The defendant pretended to be a widow, who resides in the United States of America (USA), to defraud unsuspecting victims.

    Aderibigbe, a native of Oshogbo, Osun State Capital, was one of the 30 suspected internet fraudsters arrested at Malete, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara, on Sept. 19, 2021.

    The presiding Judge, Justice Muhammed Sani, pronounced Aderibigbe guilty of the charge and sentenced him to three years in prison with N982,403 as option of fine.

    The court also ordered that the iPhone7 plus and Laptop that were used to perpetrate the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government.

    The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.

    Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Rasheedat Alao, reviewed the facts of the case and tendered the extra-judicial statements of the defendant, which were admitted in evidence.

    She urged the court to consider the guilty plea of the defendant, his extra-judicial statements and all the exhibits tendered to convict the defendant as charged.

    The court further convicted one Bolaji Awoleye from Oke-Ogun Area of Oyo State for internet fraud related offence.

    The prosecution counsel, Sesan Ola, told the court that Awoleye allegedly posed as one Karan Vanslack, an American lady, with intent to defraud unsuspecting victims.

    The defendant pleaded guilty as charged and was sentenced to a year in prison with an option of fine of N100, 000.

    The court also ordered that the iPhone6 that he used to perpetrate the crime be forfeited to the federal government.

  • Court remands prophet for allegedly raping 13-year-old girl seeking prayer

    Court remands prophet for allegedly raping 13-year-old girl seeking prayer

    A prophet, Godson Thompson, 32, has been remanded in the Uyo Custodial Centre, by a High Court in the state, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl, who was brought to him for prayers.

     

    Justice Nkanang ordered the remand of the cleric, a native of Ikot Offiong Nsit in the Nsit Ibom Local Government Area, after he heard the evidence of the victim, a student of a government secondary school in Uyo.

     

    The victim told the court that while living with her elder sister in Uyo, her in-law took her to a church at the Information Drive, Uyo, and when he left around 6pm, the pastor took her to his house, where she was raped overnight.

     

    She said the accused person, a father of three children, gave her a bucket to urinate inside the house in order to prevent her from going outside.

     

    The victim said, “My in-law took me to a church by IBB Way, Uyo, by 6pm, saying he will pick me up by 7pm. When my in-law left the church, the accused person made a phone call to a tricyclist and the tricyclist came in.

     

    The accused person asked me to enter the tricycle, saying he was going to pray for two persons and that he would also pray for me.

     

    “When we got there, he prayed for the first and second persons. Thereafter, the accused person and I trekked to the main road and he stopped a tricycle.

     

    We both entered it and at a certain point, the tricyclist stopped and the accused person said I should wait for him.”

     

    She stated that they later ended up in the accused person’s house, where he brought out a black liquid substance in a plastic bottle and drank before raping her.

     

    She further told the court that she started bleeding and using sanitary pads for two weeks after the incident, which occurred on Friday, July 10, 2022.

     

    The victim informed the court that she saw ladies’ pants in different colours and pictures of women inside the house of the prophet.

     

    The SS1 student said she escaped when the accused person forgot to lock the door of the house, adding that she ran to a church where she was rescued.

     

    Justice Nkanang adjourned the matter till August 1, 2022, for continuation of trial.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that the alleged rape of minors by prophets is taking an increase, as one Prophet Ikechukwu Nwadike, had been accused of rape and other indecent sexual acts against an 11-year old girl.

     

     

     

  • President Buhari condemns resort to self-help against blasphemy in Nigeria

    President Buhari condemns resort to self-help against blasphemy in Nigeria

    President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned the resort to self-help by the mob in Sokoto, resulting in violence, destruction and killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, following an allegation that she had blasphemed Muhammad (SAW), the Prophet of Islam, on Thursday.

     

    President Buhari condemns resort to self-help against blasphemy in Nigeria.

     

    Deborah, a 200 level student of the institution, was reported killed on the campus of the college for allegedly blaspheming the name of the Prophet Mohammed.

     

    The Presidency demanded an impartial and extensive investigation into the circumstances and noted that the teachings by religious leaders do not support any believer judging the action of another person.

     

    According to a statement from the Presidency, “the news of the killing of the young lady by fellow students was a matter of concern and demanded an impartial, extensive probe into all that happened before and during the incident.

     

    “The President noted that Muslims all over the world demand respect for the Holy Prophets, including Isah (Alaihissalaam, Jesus Christ) and Muhammad (SAW), but where transgressions occur, as alleged to be the case in this instance, the law does not allow anyone to take matters into their hands.

     

    “Moreover, religious leaders preach that it is not for the believer to judge the actions of another person. The constituted authority must be allowed to deal with such matters when they arise.

     

    “No person has the right to take the law into his or her own hands in this country. Violence has and never will solve any problem.”

  • Female student burnt alive over alleged comment against Prophet Muhammad (VIDEO)

    Female student burnt alive over alleged comment against Prophet Muhammad (VIDEO)

    A mob in Sokoto on Thursday burnt alive a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education over alleged blasphemy.

     

    Identified simply as Deborah, the student was reported to have described a message about Prophet Muhammad on a WhatsApp group as “nonsense”.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that the incident triggered tension in the school environment.

     

    The group, it was learnt, was created for academic purposes.

     

    According to a source that pleaded anonymity, the matter got out of hand after Deborah refused to apologize for her alleged comment on the post.

     

    “She was asked to apologise but refused and this heightened tension in the school. The college security personnel had to intervened by whisking her to their office but they were overwhelmed by students, who later set her ablaze,” the source said.

     

    A video of the incident has since gone viral on social media.

    Watch video below:

     

     

     

     

  • Just In: Buhari begs ASUU to end strike

    Just In: Buhari begs ASUU to end strike

    President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the lingering strike.

    Buhari urged ASUU to consider the plight of the students and called off the industrial action.

    The President made the appeal at the 19th National Productivity Day Celebration and Conferment of National Productivity Order of Merit Award, held at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.

    He also urged the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, to exercise patience as the government tries to resolve the crisis.

    Buhari recalled his February 1 directive to His Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, the Ministers of Education and Labour and Employment, Adamu Adamu and Chris Ngige, respectively, to address the concerns of the striking aggrieved workers’ unions.

    On Monday, ASUU has been on strike since February 20222.

    But ASUU on Monday extended its ongoing roll-over strike by another three months.

    The body is demanding funding for the revitalisation of public universities, the Earned Academic Allowances, the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.

    Others include the renegotiation and implementation of the 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the inconsistency in the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.

  • Student dies while acting Jesus crucifixion drama in Imo state

    Student dies while acting Jesus crucifixion drama in Imo state

    Sule Ambrose, 25, an undergraduate in Imo state has reportedly slumped and subsequently died while playing the role of Simon Peter jesus’ crucifixion playlet on Easter Sunday.

    Onlookers delayed a bit to rescue him because they had thought it was part of the act.

    Until his death,Ambrose, was training to be a priest at the Clariantian University seminary in Nekede, south eastern Nigeria.

    Ambrose took the part of Simon Peter, Jesus’s most important Disciple, dressing up in a long white robe.

    But he slumped on the ground during the performance and bled.

    An eyewitness, Micheal Eluwa said they initially thought it was a joke

    ‘Initially when it happened we thought it was a joke, and that it was part of the drama.

    ‘It was when he could not get up that was when we knew it was a serious matter and he was rushed to a school hospital.

    ‘Later, when the case became worse, he was taken to a nearly Federal Medical Center. It was from there we heard he could not survive it.’

    The cause of Ambrose’s death remains entirely unknown, the seminary confirmed.

    The Rev. Prof Pullicino has written a scientific paper about his theory and published it in the Catholic Medical Quarterly.

  • Student arraigned for allegedly threatening to kill father, daughter

    Student arraigned for allegedly threatening to kill father, daughter

    A 20-year-old student, Yakubu Muhammed, was on Tuesday arraigned in an Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, FCT for allegedly threatening to kill a father and his daughter.

     

    Muhammed, who resides in Giri Kposere village, Gwagwalada, was charged with criminal trespass, intimidation and assault.

     

    The prosecution said that the defendant criminally trespassed into the complainant’s father’s compound and assaulted her and her father.

     

    The prosecutor said that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 342, 397 and 264 of the Penal Code.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.

     

    The Defence Counsel, Hussein Isah, prayed the court to grant his client bail citing the provisions of sections 158 and 162 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) to buttress his claims for bail.

     

    Isah said that the defendant, if granted bail would not jump bail and would always be in court until the determination of the matter.

     

    He prayed the court to grant his client bail in the most liberal terms.

     

    Judge Sani Umar, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N300, 000 with one surety in like sum.

     

    The judge said that if the defendant failed to meet the bail conditions, he would be remanded in Nigerian Correctional Centre in Suleja.

     

    He adjourned the case until May 18 for hearing.

  • OAU postgraduate student’s death: Court denies Adedoyin, 6 others bail

    OAU postgraduate student’s death: Court denies Adedoyin, 6 others bail

    An Osun High Court sitting in Osogbo, on Monday, refused the bail applications for the Chairman of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin and six others, charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke.

    Adegoke was a post-graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who died in the hotel in November 2021.

    The six other defendants, who were equally refused bail, were: Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwole Florence, Oyetunde Kazeem, Adebayo Kunle and Adedeji Adesola.

    The Chief Judge of Osun, Justice Adepele Ojo, in her ruling, refused their bail applications due to the magnitude of the offence they allegedly committed.

    She said that the offences, as being alleged against the defendants, were serious felony charges that could attract jail term.

    Ojo overruled the application for bail by the defence counsels on health grounds, adding that the correctional centre had all the necessary facilities for those with medical challenges.

    The defendants had earlier pleaded not guilty to the 11-count charge, bordering on conspiracy, murder, attempted felony, unlawful interference with a dead body, altering and intent to destroy evidence.

    The case file number: HOS/5C/2022, dated Feb. 14 and filed on Feb. 17, had earlier been substituted with HOS/5C/ 2022, dated Feb. 22, and filed on March 2.

    Ojo, however, adjourned till March 8, for the continuation of the trial.