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  • SS3 student allegedly beats teacher to death in Delta

    SS3 student allegedly beats teacher to death in Delta

    An SS3 student of Erhimu Secondary School, Abraka, Delta State, Michael Ogbeife, on Thursday allegedly beats his teacher until he died.

    The teacher Joseph Ossai, reportedly had a fight with the student which resulted in his death.

    The late teacher was in charge of Agricultural Science and Biology in the said school until his demise.

    The SS3 student is said to have fought with the teacher after he (Ossai) flogged his younger sister, Promise Ogbeife who was involved in a dispute with her classmate.

    According to sources from the school, Michael angrily left the school’s premises after his sister was flogged, returned back and headed straight to the staff room for a fight with the teacher.

    Some sources alleged that the suspect went home to get a charm before the fight.

    Ossai is said to have collapsed after punches from the student that left him with a bleeding nose and blood gushing out from his mouth.

    He was rushed to a private clinic in the Abraka and then to the government hospital where he was confirmed dead.

    The school’s proprietor, Mr. Erhimu, in his reaction said he was yet to receive full details of the incident as he was absent from school when the incident occured.

    The police spokesman in the Delta state, DSP Bight Edafe, confirmed the incident, saying, “Suspect is nowhere to be found for now but sister is in protective custody.”

  • Mercy Johnson blows hot as teacher torments daughter over celebrity status

    Mercy Johnson blows hot as teacher torments daughter over celebrity status

    Nollywood star, Mercy Johnson-Okojie on Friday stated that her daughter Purity, was being bullied in school by a teacher because of her celebrity status.

    The mother of four took to her Instagram account to recount Purity’s trouble with her school teacher, stating that her child should not be victimised because she’s a celebrity.

    She captioned the post, “What do you do when the teacher is actually the bully and your child the constant victim? Enough is enough, I have reported to the school authorities and I will see this to the end.”

    The actress then recounted her child’s ordeal, “Since when is it a crime to be Mercy Johnson-Okojie’s daughter? Before I consider myself a public figure, I am FIRST a WIFE and a MOTHER to my four kids, that is my priority in this life, and nobody can make my child feel less than who she is because her mother is a public figure.

    “You can say anything about me, you can dislike or even hate me, I will not respond, but DO NOT ATTACK KIDS that did nothing to you and cannot defend themselves.

    “The one thing I teach my kids is DISCIPLINE and RESPECT! I insist on POLITENESS AND KINDNESS from them, but I also teach them to SPEAK OUT especially to me WHEN THEY ARE BADLY TREATED!

    “I do not honestly care if someone does not like me, I do not expect everyone to, but to take your hate out on my child? Unacceptable!

    “A teacher at my child’s school has been bullying my daughter constantly for two whole weeks. She is not her class teacher, yet she shows up at her class everyday to intimidate her! Uses biros to flick her hair.

    “She tells her to her face that she does not like her mother, tells her that celebrity kids are badly behaved, and she should not bring her ‘aura’, she should stop feeling proud, she should not bring her online drama to school. An 8-year-old!

    “Purity that used to love going to school is terrified of going to her new school because of this teacher. Purity would greet her; she would not respond. Purity would report this to me every day, honestly, I thought she might be worrying too much.” (sic)

     

  • Nigerian teacher wins Facebook award for developing online teachers’ platform

    Nigerian teacher wins Facebook award for developing online teachers’ platform

    A Nigerian Teacher, Dr Peter Ogudoro, has won an award by Facebook as one of the world’s amazing virtual community managers for developing a “most helpful and engaged educators’ platform called Nigerian Teachers’’.

    The platform said that the award by Facebook makes Ogudoro a member of the multinational corporation’s elite group of 131 outstanding community managers in the world.

    The platform, the statement said, focuses on online teacher-training and attitude modification, has over 240,000 teachers from around the world, and provides free continuous professional development opportunities to them.

    “The platform is a peer-support community for teachers, who use the platform to follow trends in teaching, classroom management and school leadership.

    “Parents also use the platform to learn effective parenting styles that enable them to collaborate with teachers for global competitiveness of young people.’’

    The statement said that the award was given under Facebook’s Community Accelerator Programme, under which the awardees receive resource support to scale their operations and promote engagement within their communities for a better world.

    It said that the Community Accelerator Programme was designed to guarantee about one year of sustained support for the award winners’ communities by Facebook.

    Ogudoro, the platform said, created the group in 2016 as a positive response to the frustration he experienced while trying to get education policy makers in Nigeria to adopt and promote learner-centred approaches to teaching and effective career management systems.

    It noted that Ogudoro’s methods could save the country billions of dollars and make Nigeria a net exporter of educational services.

    Ogudoro expressed gratitude to Facebook for the Award, and revealed that he was scaling up the platform to help governments around the world to train and retrain teachers for globally competitive education.

    “Through globally competitive education, we can deliver the pace of development that will banish poverty, and guarantee a more inclusive, prosperous, and harmonious world.

    “I am excited about the fact that a powerful tool for the promotion of functional education in the world has come from Nigeria, a country that has been facing enormous development challenges for decades.

    “The award will provide me the platform for a one-month learning tour of the Scandinavian countries including Finland with focus on their education system.

    “The objective is provision of the intellectual tools that will help Nigeria and the rest of the developing world achieve the demographic dividends they need to lift millions of their citizens out of poverty within the next few years through result-oriented pedagogy,’’ Nigerian Teachers quoted Ogudoro as saying.

    It disclosed that Ogudoro is an alumnus of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom where he earned a PhD in Education with emphasis on Career Management, Attitude Modification, and Diffusion of Innovations in Education.

    Ogudoro, according to the statement, has benefitted from elite education development experiences at over 10 research-intensive institutions across the world.

  • Teacher who raped, infected 14 pupils with HIV in police net

    Teacher who raped, infected 14 pupils with HIV in police net

    A middle aged Grade two teacher, Usman Galadima has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for defiling 14 pupils of Central Primary School Karabonde Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State.

    This is as the Niger State Government has constituted a Committee to investigate the incident as he is said to have infected the children with the dreaded HIV an allegation not yet verified.

    The state Child Right Agency, Director General, Mariam Kolo had last week confirmed the incident.

    The Committee set up by the government is to be headed by the state Commissioner for Education Hajiya Hanatu Jibrin Salihu. Others are the Director Child Right Protection Agency, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs, the State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB) among others in the state.

    A top source told our correspondent that as soon as the state CID is done with interrogation, the accused would be brought before the Committee for further questioning.

    According to the source, “the Committee is travelling today (Sunday) to Borgu on a four day facts finding mission on the matter. The development is so pathetic”.

    After the incident, the girls were said to have been taken to the hospital where it was discovered that the teacher who molested them is HIV positive.

    A source whose relatives are among the abused pupils revealed that the families of the victims are worried the children may not get justice as it appears some elders in the community are trying to protect the accused.

    Galadima who has already been suspended from work by the state SUBEB for allegedly assaulting the 14 girls sexually had confessed to the crime before a Committee constituted by the Councils’ Education Secretary, last week.

    One of the parents who did not want her name mentioned said Galadima was reported in July when two female pupils summoned the courage to report him to the head teacher for molesting them sexually.

    She said “the pupils were afraid to speak earlier after Galadima threatened to kill them if they dare mention to anyone what he did to them”.

    The case it was gathered was later reported to the headmaster of the school, Mallam Abdullahi Toure, by Hajiya Maimunat after which the accused teacher was summoned.

    The state Commissioner for Education Hajiya Hanatu Jibrin Salihu could not be reached for reaction to the development.

    Confirming the arrest of the suspect, the state Police command through the Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun said the suspect is with the Command over the allegations of sexual assault.

    According to him, the suspect initially disappeared, but was later arrested and transferred to Minna by the DPO of Borgu Divisional Police Station.

  • Sodomy: Oyo teacher caught molesting schoolboys pushes blame to devil [Photo]

    Sodomy: Oyo teacher caught molesting schoolboys pushes blame to devil [Photo]

    The Oyo State police command on Thursday paraded a primary school teacher, Ebenezer Olawuyi for defiling two of his male pupils.

    The 30-year-old, Olawuyi said he lured the pupils to his house to mark examination scripts for him and sodomised them.

    The state command also paraded 33 others for armed robbery, kidnapping and carjacking in the state.

    Speaking with journalists, Olawuyi said he didn’t know what led him to defile small boys instead of sex with women.

    He said, “I am doomed. I just slept with two boys. I had girlfriends while in school. I am not married yet. Both of the boys were my pupils. I invited the first one to help me mark my scripts at home with the consent of his parents while I slept with the second one in the classroom before school hours.”

    When asked how he convinced them not to tell their parents, Olawuyi said; “I told them that I want to have sex with them and they didn’t argue. Both of them are between the ages of 11 and 14. I told them not to tell their parents because it has health benefits for them.”

    He further said the situation was giving him concern before his arrest because he didn’t know what led him to it.

    “I think it is the devil. I don’t know what led me to this. I just lost my dad last week. I want the government to help me out of this,” he said.

  • Bezos’ ex-wife marries teacher

    Bezos’ ex-wife marries teacher

    Mackenzie Scott, the ex-wife to Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, has remarried years after her highly publicized divorce from the entrepreneur.

    TheNewsGuru recalls that Scott and Bezos had parted ways in 2019 after agreeing to a record-setting sum of $35 billion as the settlement.

    The philanthropist has now married Dan Jewett, a science teacher at the prestigious Seattle school attended by her children, in an event that held on Sunday.

    Both parties acknowledged their new-found union in a letter addressed to the public via a page on their website.

    “I have been a teacher for the majority of my life, as well as a grateful student of the generosity of those around me,” the letter, which was fronted by Jewett, read in part.

    “This has meant doing my best to follow their example by passing on resources of all kinds—from time to energy, to material possessions—when I have had them to give.

    “And now, in a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know—and joining her in a commitment to pass on an enormous financial wealth to serve others.

    “I have seen many ways that MacKenzie has seen her efforts enhanced when she acts on the belief that those with common values but different perspectives, strengths, and experiences are essential to effecting positive change.

    “We are united in that understanding and in our excitement for all we have to learn from people working in service of others. I look forward to the growth and learning I have ahead as a part of this undertaking with MacKenzie.”

     

  • How Cross River student took gun to school to shoot teacher

    How Cross River student took gun to school to shoot teacher

    A certain student of Government Secondary School in Akpabuyo, Ikot Ewa, Cross River State has been in the news after bringing a locally made gun to school to shoot her teacher who asked her to cut her coloured hair.

    An eyewitness Charles Edem told BBC Pidgin that the pathetic incident occurred on February 11 but that it only went viral when he posted the girl’s pictures on social media on Wednesday.

    “It happened last week Thursday as the young girl resumed school, her class teacher asked her to go cut her coloured hair which she brought to school. Schools here in Cross River have a rule that prohibits students from coming to school with coloured hair or grown hair. So she went back. The next day she came to school with a gun,” he said.

    Mr Edem said the school principal raised alarm and soon teachers and students gathered to see what was happening.

    The eyewitness said he was visiting his friend who stays close to the school when they heard the alarm and rushed to see for themselves.

    According to him, the young girl told the school authorities that she got the gun from an elderly man.

    “We discovered that the old man was having sex with her and she got the gun from him,” he said.

    Edem said the girl was handed over to authorities for further investigation.

    Cross River police spokesperson Irene Ugbo confirmed the incident to the news medium.

  • We are not hiring teachers for now, says TESCOM

    We are not hiring teachers for now, says TESCOM

    The Lagos State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has advised the public to disregard recruitment notice currently in circulation.

    Kayode Sutton, Assistant Director, Public Affairs in the commission, told newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday that the advertisement did not emanate from the commission.

    He expressed disappointment over the misleading misinformation in some media.

    ”The employment advertisement was not issued by the commission.

    ” If Lagos State Government is to employ teachers, such development (recruitment) must begin at the Lagos Ministry of Education.

    ”Recruitment should go through the appropriate official channels,” he said.

    Sutton said the clarification was necessary to stop aspiring teachers from falling into the hands of fraudsters

  • Brave seven-year-old pupil resists teacher’s attempt to molest her in school toilet

    Brave seven-year-old pupil resists teacher’s attempt to molest her in school toilet

    The Kwara State First Lady, Mrs. Folake AbdulRazaq has shown interest in the case of an alleged sexual assault on a seven-year-old pupil by her teacher.

    The teacher identified as Akorede Hammed was said to have taken the minor to a toilet where he allegedly undressed her and fondled her private part while the little girl vehemently protested, according to Police First Information Report.

    The information was contained in the girl’s father’s letter to Area Command Metro, Ilorin.

    In the letter, the girl said Hammed took her to a toilet and locked her up to conceal the crime from passersby.

    Hammed would later open the door for the girl to go after she vehemently resisted his immoral plan.

    Police said Hammed, who taught the girl Yoruba, fled, but was later apprehended by detectives.

    Meanwhile, Hammed has been arraigned in a Kwara State family court in Ilorin, the state capital.

    Magistrate Shade Lawal in her short ruling, adjourned the matter till September 16, 2020 for hearing.

  • Teacher sentenced to life imprisonment, for raping, impregnating pastor’s 10-year-old daughter

    Teacher sentenced to life imprisonment, for raping, impregnating pastor’s 10-year-old daughter

    A teacher, Omotayo Adanlawo, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and impregnating the 10-year-old daughter of the General Overseer of his church.

    Adanlawo was jailed by an Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure presided over by Justice Samuel Bola.

    Justice Bola said Adanlawo did not give convincing evidence and testimony to prove his innocence.

    The trial judge said the victim was a “witness of truth” because of the courage and precision in her testimony.

    Adanlawo was said to have committed the offence at the victim’s house at Iju while she was alone and defiled her with a warning not to tell anyone else she would die.

    The bubble burst when the victim could not walk properly and doctor’s examination revealed that she had been raped.

    The victim was said to have revealed that it was her father’s spiritual son that was responsible for the rape.

    Adanlawo was subsequently arrested and arraigned before Justice Bola on a one-count charge of rape punishable under section 358 of the Criminal Laws of Ondo State.

    The prosecution led by a state counsel, Stella Adegoke, called five witnesses, but the defendant testified for himself.

    Adanlawo, in his statement before the police, said he was battling hernia and was not medically fit to have sexual intercourse with the girl.

    Justice Bola, in his judgement, said the prosecution proved there was penetration of the victim.

    He said the defendant gave no medical report to prove his condition as well as any evidence to suggest he was in his house as claimed on the day of the incident.

    He, therefore, sentenced Adanlawo to life imprisonment in line with Section 358 of the Criminal Laws of Ondo State.