Tag: Students
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Graphic Photos/Videos: Three siblings, pregnant woman, eight others die as truck rams into students, traders near entrance of Ondo university
Twelve persons have been confirmed dead while search continues for others in an accident that occurred near the entrance gate of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday evening. https://twitter.com/_t4tomiwa/status/1353058525522530310?s=20 The accident was said to have occurred when a truck coming from Obajana in Kogi…
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Covid-19: UNIBEN ask students to stay at home till further notice
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 students earlier billed to resume academic activities were not expected in the halls of residence on…
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Lagos medical school students ordered to go home after COVID-19 outbreak
The Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM) has shut its students’ hostels and asked its medical students to leave the premises after several doctors and students tested positive for COVID-19. According to a source who craved anonymity, at least 15 doctors and an unconfirmed number of students have tested positive so far. The source…
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Police arraign staffers of Deeper Life School over alleged molestation of student
Some officials of the Deeper Life High School in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital have been arraigned for their alleged role in the sexual molestation and forced starvation of an 11-year-old student of the school. The police are arraigning the suspects following their investigation of the petition by the mother of the student, Mrs Deborah…
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Sad tales from a mission school – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido Merry Christmas to you, although the news coming out of Deeper Life High School in Akwa Ibom is not merry. Earlier in the week, the news broke of an 11-year-old male student of the school, who was molested and maltreated by senior students. The principal had allegedly moved the victim from a…
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Abduction of Katsina students under Buhari’s nose perplexing – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as perplexing the abduction of yet-to-be ascertained number of students from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State while President Muhammadu Buhari, a son of the soil is around. The opposition party said it was perplexing that gunmen attacked the school and abducted the students on Friday, the…
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JUST IN: Buhari breaks silence on kidnap of Katsina students
President Muhammadu Buhari revealed on Saturday that the bandits who attacked students of Kankara Government Science Secondary School have been located. He said they have been located at their hideout at Zango-Paula Forest in the area and an operation is apace to free the abducted students. According to a briefing he received from Governor Aminu…
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JUST IN: Despite Buhari’s presence, bandits invade Katsina school, kidnap students
Bandits, ignoring the presence of President Muhammad’s Buhari in Daura, Katsina state, have attacked the Government Science Secondary School in Ƙanƙara abducting a yet to be specified number of students said to be in the hundreds. The school is said to have a student population of 800 but 200 of them in JSS 3 were…
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ASUU to students: We hope 8-month strike afforded you opportunities to aquire new skills
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on Tuesday briefed students on updates as regards the ongoing nationwide strike by the union. The union in a Twitter post hoped student had aquired skills in the course of the strike while urging them not to relax any longer as exam can commence anytime upon school resumption.…
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Acquire skills, travel, have fun, ASUU tells students as hopes of calling off strike dims
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has given undergraduates seven pieces of advice on how to spend their time because of the union’s indefinite strike. The union in a Twitter post advised the students seize the strike opportunity to get a skill and add value to their lives. “This strike is an opportunity for…