Tag: Students
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BREAKING: UNIOSUN students in violent protest over death of colleague
Angered by the incessant disappearance of their colleagues, students of the Osun State University (UNIOSUN) have laid siege to some streets in Osogbo burning tyres and vandalising properties to vent their anger. Dressed in black shirts and trousers, the students chanted war songs and attacked motorists and journalists covering the protest. TheNewsGuru.com had earlier reported…
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UI makes U-turn, recalls students, fixes examinations for July 4
Authorities of the University of Ibadan, UI, on Friday announced July 2 for the re-opening of the institution for normal academic activities. According to the Director of Public Communications, Mr Olatunji Oladejo, the first semester examinations for the 2016/2017 academic session will start on July 4. The Senate of the University of Ibadan, has decided…
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Epe Kidnap: ‘I feel inadequate not yet securing students’ release’ – Ambode laments
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday said he feels inadequate because of his inability to quickly rescue the pupils recently kidnapped from the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla-Epe. Ambode spoke with journalists in Abuja in the wake of the recent kidnapping and a fresh threat by the kidnappers to attack the Lagos Model…
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Just in: Suspected kidnappers of Lagos pupils, teachers arraigned
Federal Government on Tuesday arraigned five men accused of kidnapping some pupils and members of staff of a school in Isheri, Ogun State, on January 13, 2017, and another six victims along the Ikorodu Expressway, Lagos, on December 16, 2016. The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation had, on June 1, 2017, charged the…
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Prolonged strike: LAUTECH students storm NASS, beg FG to take over institution
Students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, on Thursday, stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the federal government should take over funding and administration of the institution owing to several months of industrial action by both academic and non-academic staff of the institution. The aggrieved students decried the prolonged industrial action, which…
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20 students die in bus crash en route to write exam
29 school children, two teachers and a driver have died in a bus crash near Karatu in northern Tanzania Saturday morning. The students of the Lucky Vincent English-Medium School in Arusha city were en route to write an examination in Karatu when their bus skidded off the road and fell into a river, police say.…
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FG orders closure of Queen’s College as diarrhoea kills two students
The Federal Government through the Ministry of Health, has directed the immediate closure of Queen’s College, Yaba, following the death of two students who were diagnosed to have died of diarrhoea between Thursday, February 23 and Friday, February 24, 2017. The two female boarding students, Vivian Osuinyi and Bithia Itulua reportedly died after vomiting and…
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Queens College shutdown as diarrhoea kills two students
Queens College, Yaba, in Lagos, has been shutdown after two students allegedly died of diarrhoea, between Thursday, February 23 and Friday, February 24, 2017. Two female boarding students, Vivian Osuinyi and Bithia Itulua reportedly died after vomiting and stooling. They allegedly ate Spaghetti and drank water served in the Refectory by the college cooks, Daily…
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School feeding: Sokoto earmarks N5.4bn for 1m students
The Sokoto State Government says it has earmarked over N5.4 billion to feed no fewer than one million students in its primary and secondary schools in 2017. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Alhaji Mainasara Ahmed, disclosed this in Gusau on Thursday. He spoke at a three-day workshop organized by a USAID-assisted…
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Students decries hike in price of garri in Ilorin
Some students in Ilorin have decried the sudden increase in price of garri, commonly referred to as “students’ food’’. The students said it had become almost impossible to have a day’s meal with the increase in the staple food. A student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Dayo Abiodun, said that it was difficult to feed with…