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  • MAPOLY students lock down school over delay in release of results

    MAPOLY students lock down school over delay in release of results

    Students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, stormed the institution Monday morning and shut the main gate leading to the school, denying academic and non-academic staff access into the compound.

    It was gathered that the final year students at the Higher National Diploma level formed the bulk of those responsible for the locking of the school gate.

    Sources among them said they were protesting the non-release of their final year results by the academic staff.

    The students had concluded their final examination in January 2018, and had hoped to be mobilised for the one-year National Youth Service Corps programme in April 2018.

    They argued that with the delay in the release of their results, it is uncertain that they will be able to meet up with the April batch.

  • Bayelsa suspends seven secondary school students for practicing cultism

    The Bayelsa Government has announced the indefinite suspension of seven senior secondary school students for engaging in cult related activities.


    The Bayelsa Commissioner for Education, Jonathan Obuebite made the disclosure in a statement issued in Yenogoa on Saturday.

    According to Obuebite, the students were reported to have attacked and injured a fellow student at the Central Epie Secondary School, Opolo-Epie located in Yenagoa.


    Obuebite who did not mention the names of the students, said the alleged cultists did not only attack their victim but also endangered the lives of other students.

    The commissioner said that they also disrupted academic activities of the school during their nefarious actions.
    He further prohibited government schools from admitting the students without clearance from the state ministry of education.

     

  • MCA launches innovative e-learning platform for secondary school students

    Mobile Class Academy (MCA), Nigeria’s leading Video e-Learning platform for students in Senior Secondary School (Sciences, Commercial and Art classes) is thrilled to announce a revolutionary service to Senior Secondary School Students in Nigeria.

    The service is aimed at bringing qualitative education to the door step of every Secondary School Student in Nigeria.

    From today, students can sign up via MCA’S website, www.mcaclasses.com on their phone, Laptop, Desktop or Tablet, giving them unlimited access to thousands of the world’s best classes on all their school subjects.

    The Mobile Class Academy platform offers students unlimited access to MCA’s vast library of thousands of exclusive lectures with notes, visuals and graphical representations.

    Interaction with global academic community. At Mobile Class Academy, we believe students should not study in isolation as sharing of ideas and experiences among students around the world on our platform will broaden their knowledge base;

    Students who have difficulties understanding grey areas in any subject or topic can access our competent standby on-line teachers to proffer solutions;

    A more flexible, inclusive and attractive learning process as against the monotonous classroom restriction students are subjected to;

    Access to Mobile Class Academy on all platforms at once; Mobile Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Desktops, and other connected devices.

    Taiwo Popoola, the CEO, Voguenet Integrated Technology Limited notes that ‘Mobile Class Academy (MCA) is here to reshape the academic space in Nigeria. By creating this platform where students can learn any subject from the best minds in the country anywhere they are, we are guaranteed of reducing failure rate in national and international exams.

    The depth of our educational decay did not sink as much until I came across a newspaper publication in England with a screaming headline, ‘11 million Nigerians could not assess quality education’. This was unbelievable. Even more alarming is the UNESCO report in 2015 that the numbers of Nigerians unable to assess quality education stands at 54 million. This was a disaster waiting to happen. So, it got me thinking on how best to crash this figures. This is how we came about Mobile Class Academy (MCA).

    As we all know, getting qualitative education is very expensive here in Nigeria. What we’ve done at MCA is to bring quality education to the door step of all’.

    Also, the statistics shows that the average failure rate in the West Africa Examination Council examination result (WAEC) for ten years is over 60 per cent which value at billions of naira going down the drain annually, a platform such as this will help to educate large number of students wherever they are at their convenience and deliver expected result within a short time possible.

     

  • US school shooting: How 19-yr-old killed 17 students in Florida

    No fewer than 17 persons were killed at a Florida high school in the United States of America on Wednesday, after a gunman opened fire, leaving terrified students huddled in their classrooms, texting friends and family for help.

    Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, had left “multiple dead,” with dozens also injured.

    Fourteen people were taken to hospital “with varying degrees of wounds,” Israel told reporters, adding that the school had not yet been totally cleared.
    The suspect — a onetime student at the school who was 19 years old — was arrested without incident in the nearby town of Coral Springs, he said.

    He was identified as Nicolas Cruz, according to various media reports.

    The shooting, one of nearly 20 since the start of the year, will once again throw the spotlight on the epidemic of gun violence in the United States and the ready accessibility of weapons in a country with 33,000 gun-related deaths annually.

    “Just a horrible day for us,” said the superintendent of the county’s school district, Robert Runcie, who spoke of “numerous fatalities.”
    Israel echoed that sentiment.

    “This is a terrible day for Parkland,” he said, speaking of the city of about 30,000 people, located 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami.
    “My very own triplets went to that school.”

    The FBI said it was assisting local law enforcement with the investigation.
    Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky told CNN she had spoken to a number of students after the shooting erupted shortly after 2pm (1900 GMT).

    “They were very scared,” she said. “And almost in shock when they came out.”

    Asked about security, the Parkland mayor said a police officer is always stationed at the school and there was a “single point of entry.”

  • University of Benin recalls 5 rusticated students

    The University of Benin (UNIBEN) says it has recalled five students recently rusticated for their roles in the Nov. 23, 2017 students’ protest.

    The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Faraday Orumwunse, made this known on Tuesday in Benin at a news briefing.

    Orumwunse said the recall of the students followed the appeal in writing by the rusticated students, the Students’ Union as well as the intervention of well-meaning stakeholders.

    He said from all indications, the protest was uncalled for and designed only to serve the illegitimate purpose of portraying the university in bad light while disrupting its academic calendar.

    The vice chancellor said it was difficult to understand why the students’ union would call for a protest within 24 hours of receiving the assurance of the Pro-Chancellor that the issues raised in their letters would be reviewed.

    According to him, management holds the views of students’ representatives in very high esteem and has always shown willingness to dialogue with the students.

    “Nevertheless, management will not tolerate a situation where a few individuals will deploy the students’ union engagement mechanism for the furtherance of illegitimate purpose,’’ he said.

    The vice-chancellor said it was untrue that the Chancellor of the institution and Emir of Kano, Mohammad Sanusi II, was involved in determining the school’s new charges.

    He explained that the Governing Council of a university headed by a Pro- Chancellor was solely responsible for the financial operations of a university and not the Chancellor.

    The vice-chancellor, however, said the management had reviewed the issues that led to the protest.

    The students of the institution on Nov. 23, 2017 during the institution’s 47 Founder’s Day and 43rd convocation ceremonies protested the increase by the school management of accommodation charges.

  • 80 students escape death in Sokoto

    Eighty students of Government Girls Secondary School, Mabera, in Sokoto metropolis escaped death on Sunday night when fire completely razed down their hostel.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the inferno destroyed the four-room A’isha hostel and valuables but no student was hurt.

    It took the combined efforts of officials of State Fire Service and other security personnel to put off the fire suspected to have originated from electrical sparks.

    The school authorities declined to speak on the incident, saying that they have no authority to entertain media enquiry.

    Efforts to speak to officials of the state Ministry Education and state Fire Service were unsuccessful as they failed to pick phone calls and did not reply text messages.

    NAN recalled that in December 2017, a student hostel was also burnt down at the Government Science Secondary School Kware in the state.

  • Kidnappers release 1 of 6 varsity students abducted in Kwara

    A gang of kidnappers struck at Kwara State University Malete in Moro Local Government Area of the state Thursday afternoon and kidnapped six students. Kidnap-syndicate One of the victims, a 200 Level student of the department of Mass Communication at the Kwara State University, (KWASU) Malete, Dorcas Oluwatimilehin Olanrewaju was however lucky as she was released Friday morning by the abductors .

    Father of the victim, MR Layiwola Olanrewaju, journalist and state correspondent of the Sun Newspapers who confirmed this development said her daughter was released by the abductors in Omuaran his hometown.

    The kidnappers while conveying the students through the town were said to have inquired of her town and dropped her off and left with other students. Vanguard gathered that Dorcas and others were abducted on Thursday afternoon on their way to the campus in Malete.

    It was also gathered that the victims had left their off-campus residence to write an examination and boarded one of the campus shuttle vehicles when they were eventually driven to an unknown destination.

    Apparently sensing danger in the circumstances she had found herself, it was learnt that Dorcas the lucky one, was said to have quickly sent a text message to one of her friends to inform her that she had been taken away by some unidentified persons suspected to be ritualists.

    Speaking on the development, the police public relations officer (PPRO) of the state police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, said that the command had commenced investigation on the matter, adding that the report had been circulated to police formations within and outside the state towards possible arrest of the suspected hoodlums and safe return of the victim. ”We are very hopeful that others will be recovered alive and unite with their families ” The police spokesman assured.

  • Shun cultism, kidnapping, other negative vices, Jonathan advises students

    Shun cultism, kidnapping, other negative vices, Jonathan advises students

    Former President Goodluck Jonathan has counseled Nigerian students to shun kidnapping, robbery and other social vices that portray the academic community and the country at large in bad light.

    The former president gave the advice while presenting his remarks as the Special Guest of Honour at the 4th convocation of Baze University in Abuja.

    He said, “It is important to note that the negative activities of some of our youths are portraying the academic environment in bad light.

    I urge the graduating and other students of this university to realise that those people are out of line, and it is not cool, whenever they involve themselves in such abhorrent social vices as cultism, thuggery, armed robbery and kidnapping. They should know that they let the nation down, each time they engage in acts that debase human dignity and hurt our values as a nation of great people.”

    Jonathan further made a case for the kind of responsible education that will inculcate moral values in our youths.

    He said, “I would, however, clarify that our kind of education must be the type that will have a soul. That is why I always challenge the staff, especially the academic staff, to develop curricula that will produce respectable and patriotic citizens and graduates, in tune with our peculiar social and economic environment.

    “We must aspire to restore those glory days when a graduate’s value was weighed equally in character and in learning.”

     

  • Nigerian students on scholarship abroad living in ‘pitiable’ condition – Senate

    The Senate has described as ‘pitiable’ the condition of several Nigerian students on scholarship programme abroad.

    The Senate, therefore, vowed to unravel the cause of such degrading condition that the students are currently enmeshed in.

    Moving the motion under order 42 and 52, Senate Chief Whip, Olusola Adeyeye, Osun-APC, bemoaned the ‘pitiable’ condition of Nigerian students abroad who are been neglected by agencies of government.

    Mr. Adeyeye noted that the students are currently stranded in Russia, United Kingdom, Canada and other countries due to inability of the Federal Government to pay their tuition fees and stipends.

    “Mr. President, just last night, I got a very lengthy e-mail from Nigerian scholars in the UK complaining just like those students that spoke in your presence in Russia. Specifically, among other things, the stipends on which these students will live for food, transportation, housing have not been paid for many months. In addition, their school fees have not been paid,” he said.

    Supporting the motion, James Manager, Delta-PDP, wants the agencies responsible to take urgent steps in addressing the issue.

    “I have travelled enough and I know the suffering of Nigerian students who are on scholarship,” he said.

    “Many students are taken out of this country by government agencies. Mr. President, this is a very serious matter. The agencies of government should take steps in alleviating the sufferings of these young and brilliant Nigerians.”

    Senate President Bukola Saraki, Kwara-APC, said the government’s shortcomings has led some Nigerian students to illegal activities abroad.

    “The situation is very pathetic and we must tackle it head-on. I have the opportunity to meet with our counterparts in Russia who categorically told us that they are ready to give us more scholarship but unfortunately, some who have been on scholarship for two years have not been paid. Some are just roaming the streets, doing illegal activities.

    “The minimum figure is about $500 per student. This is not acceptable. We must address this. We’ll meet with these agencies and find a way to putting this issue to an end.”

    The lawmakers agreed to summon various agencies of government responsible for scholarship to Nigerian students to meet with the Senate President with a view to bringing the plight of the students to an end.

    The Senate also charged the agencies involved in the Amnesty Programme to ensure “a refund to Nigerians who rescued Nigerian students in Moscow who have not been paid for over four years.”

  • 1,272 students fail final exam in Nigerian Law School

    1,272 students fail final exam in Nigerian Law School

    The Nigerian Law School on Saturday released summary of the final examination results conducted in August.

    This was revealed in a statement by the Head of Information and Protocol of the Nigerian Law School, Mr. Chinedu Ukekwe on Saturday

    He said that a total of 5, 891 students participated in the examinations, while 4, 285 were successful.

    He said the candidates with conditional Pass were 334 while 1, 272 failed.

    According to him, 29 students were graded First Class, 211 Second Class Upper, 1, 046 made Second Class Lower, 2, 999 accounted for Pass, while 334 came out with conditional Pass.

    A further breakdown of the results showed that candidates with Pass accounted for 72.7 per cent, those with conditional Pass represented 5. 7 per cent, while those who failed were 21.6 per cent.

    Mr. Ukekwe in the statement revealed that the ‘Call to the Bar’ ceremony for the successful candidates will hold on November 28 and 29 in Abuja.

    NAN