SS1 Female Student Caught With 2 Grenades (Bombs) In Taraba

A student of Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Jalingo, was on Monday apprehended  in possession of two grenades, the student who is a senior secondary school form one (SS1) was simply identified as Blessing.

She was apprehended by the school's security guards who were conducting checks on the students luggage following their resumption for the second term.

Father Christmas Arrested For Defiling 5-Year-Old Schoolgirl In Lagos

 A Christmas party or­ganized by a nursery and primary school in the Ojodu-Abiodun area of Ogun State, turned sober after a five-year-old pupil from the school complained that the Father Christmas dipped a finger in her vagina and blood came out when she went in for her gift.

The matter was reportedly reported at a police station in the area following which the said Father Christmas was arrested penultimate Friday and later released on bail. He was thereafter mandated to report to the station last Monday.

Mother Of The Onitsha Boy Punched To Death By Classmate Laments (PICTURED)

The huge human and vehicular traffic at the Onitsha Main Market through the New Market Road failed to hide the gloom that has enveloped the home of the Azubikes, a small house tucked behind one of the major buildings along the road.

The family had had to swallow the hard reality of losing their promising 18-year-old son, Chukwuebuka, in mysterious circumstances.

Chukwebuka, who was the Senior Prefect of Modebe Memorial Secondary School, Onitsha could not recover from a fatal punch he received from a junior he had tried to correct few weeks ago. He died few hours later after many attempts to revive him at a private hospital in Onitsha failed.

Meet Nigeria's 42-Year-Old JSS1 Student And Her Son, In Same School (PHOTO)

Mrs. Juliana Godwin, a 42-year-old Junior Secondary School I (JSSI) student of Junior Secondary School, Gosa, Abuja, has become one of those persons with strong will to change her condition.

Mrs. Godwin, who hails from Riyom in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, had her education stalled by lack of sponsorship, a situation that made her to drop out, in 1983, of LEA Primary School, Riyom.

IMSU Graduate Dies Trying To Avoid A Dirty Water Bath (PHOTO)

A student of Imo State University who had just written his final papers, lost his life during the ceremony to celebrate his graduation.

The ceremony which consists of pouring dirty water on the fresh graduate, turned into a tragedy when in trying to avoid the dirty water he ran over a soak-away pit, fell into it and drowned.

What seem to be jubilation turned into a gathering of sorrow when the victim was running away from a number of students who pursued after him to pour dirty water on him. In that quest to dodge the water being poured on him, he fell into a soak-away pit and got drowned.

Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And A Bus Conductor (MUST READ)

Something interesting happened on my way to Oshodi this morning. At the park this rough mean-looking conductor also known as “agbero” in Yoruba was screaming for passengers, his vernacular oscillating between Yoruba and pidgin English.

“Oshod! Oshod!” He shouted angrily as I along with some other passengers scuttled for seats. There was this beautiful young lady who couldn’t throw caution and decorum to the wind but waited patiently until the bus was almost filled. Then she pleaded to sit by the agbero until somebody came down then she would pay for a proper seat.

Photos From Scene Of Fire At Adopoly School Of Engineering Building

Millions of Naira worth of property and documents were destroyed in a fire  out break that ravaged The School of Engineering building of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti.

The building  housing several offices and a large classroom was ravaged by fire on the night of November 15th, destroying documents and properties worth millions of Naira. The fire started around 10pm and completely burnt the complex.

Students, Teachers Relay Gory Tales Of Bloodbath In Yobe

Yesterday, 10th of November 2014, was another sad in Nigeria, a bomb , detonated by a suspected suicide bomber robbed 49  teenage Nigerians of their lives leaving about 79 others injured, at Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School Potiskum, Yobe State.
Vanguard reports:

ABUJA—Running away from the school assembly ground with his white uniform stained with blood and bits of flesh, a traumatised student of Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum, Yobe State, who survived a suicide bomb attack that claimed the lives of 47 of his colleagues with 79 others injured, yesterday, recounted his experience. The incident was considered one of the worst attacks on schools.

OAU Students Parade Alleged Rapist (PHOTO)

Alleged rapist Abayomi (pictured shirtless) was caught in Ife town outside OAU campus today. He was alleged to have raped a student from the department of Dramatic Art, Faculty of Art Of Obafemi Awolowo University outside the school campus somewhere behind Damico Institute Along Ede Road, Ife Osun State.

Nine Universities Shut Down By NUC Over Illegal Licence

Nine universities have been shut down by the National Universities Commission (NUC), for operating without legal licence.

The affected institutions have been published in the weekly bulletin of the NUC.
The publication was signed by the NUC’s executive secretary, Prof. Julius Okojie, stating that the universities which had been in existence for years, and have been used to extort money from innocent students who were giving fake certificates in return.

S*x In The City: The Shame Of Campus Prostitution

When you send your children to the university these days you become a prayer  worrior, until  they graduate you are not really at peace. One of the major issues on campus is prostitution, the other is cultism, this article from Vanguard gives an in dept insight into one of them .

Prostitution—It is the oldest profession in the world; from   before Deliliah’s seductive ways with Samson in Bible times, to last   night in a dark corner at Ojuelegba bus stop in Lagos.

Women, selling their bodies for money; some pushed into this nefarious profession out of poverty, some, out of sheer greed and some others, simply for the love of sex. In this piece, Saturday Vanguard explores the lives students in our tertiary institutions who now appear more remarkable in their runs for men and money than their primary purpose of acquiring quality education.

Colombian Woman Uses Potato As Contraceptive, Hospitalized After It Germinates Inside Her

A 22-year-old Colombian woman used a potato as a contraceptive, and was hospitalized after it began to germinate and grow roots inside her.
The woman’s mother advised her to use the potato as a technique to prevent pregnancy, Daily Mail reports.

After the woman complained about severe stomach discomfort, she was taken to the hospital where doctors discovered the potato.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Goes Back To School

 The saying that the older man becomes  he seeks to go closer to God seems to be the case with Former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

OBJ has enrolled to do a phd in Christian Theology at the National Open University Nigeria (NOUN)

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has enrolled for an MA/Ph.D. in Christian Theology at the National Open University of Nigeria.

His admission letter titled, ‘‘Provisional admission for postgraduate programme – 2014 session’’ and dated September 29,   was signed by NOUN Registrar, Josephine Akinyemi.

SSCE Mass Failure: Only 31 Per Cent Pass With 5 Credits And Above

HAVE Nigerians accepted mass failures in secondary school examinations? Mass failures no longer produce shocks or the sort of debates predicated on concerns about a fractured future.

The West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, has released its 2014 May/June 2014 Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examination, SSCE, results.   The 31.28 per cent pass in five subjects or more, including English and Mathematics (1,692,435 candidates sat for the examination), was a drop in 38.81 per cent recorded in 2012 and 36.57 per cent in 2013.

Fluctuations in the performances of our children pale in importance when compared to the attention we give elections, revenue allocation, security, and health scares like Ebola.

In 2011 when 98 per cent of the candidates did not make the grades, there were no alarms. The examinations are treated like most national issues, rituals with regular places on the calendar. Nobody is interested in how the outcomes affect our future.

350 Nigerian Students Trapped In War-Ravaged Regions of Ukraine

The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed Thursday that at least 350 Nigerian students are currently trapped in Ukraine’s crisis-torn regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

In efforts to secure and assure the safety of the students, the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science has requested all Nigerian students undergoing courses in higher education institutions in the two danger zones should “urgently forward their names, passport numbers, name of their institutions, courses, year of study and alternative universities within Ukraine to either the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, East and Central European affairs division, Abuja or Nigerian embassy in Kiev."

Teachers Threaten Strike Over Schools’ Resumption Date

The Nigerian Union of Teachers has threatened to go on strike if the Federal Government fails to put in place measures to protect its members and pupils from contracting the deadly Ebola Virus Disease before the   resumption of schools.

But the Federal Government says there is no going back on the date since there is no scientific basis for schools to remain shut beyond the September 22 resumption date announced by the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau.

The NUT National President, Michael Alogba, in a telephone interview   with one of our correspondents on Wednesday, stated that the union would not allow   any of its members to teach until it was scientifically and medically proven that the country was out of the Ebola scourge.

The Federal Government initially fixed October 13 as schools’ resumption date but it later announced the new date , saying that the country was almost Ebola-free.

But the new date drew criticism from doctors, activists and civil society groups who alleged that the government was stampeded into announcing it by some powerful school proprietors.

Federal Government Insists On September 22 Resumption Date For Schools

Despite entreaties by doctors and Parent Teachers Association the Federal government has insited on keeping the September 22nd resumption date for schools all over the nation.

The Federal  Government said yesterday, that the September 22 resumption date for primary and secondary schools in the country would not be extended because there are no strong reasons for such an extension.

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, who stated this while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting insisted that those who have reasons to believe that the schools should not re-open on that date should forward same to the Federal Government.

The Nigerian Medical Association, as well as other professional bodies have called for the extension of the resumption date for primary and secondary schools until the country is free of the the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

EBOLA: Doctors Reject September 22 Schools’ Resumption Date

The   Nigerian Medical Association on Monday faulted the Federal Government’s directive to schools to resume on September 22 as against October 12.
It said through its National Secretary-General, Dr. Olawunmi Alayaki, that all schools ought to remain   shut   till all those under surveillance for the Ebola Virus Disease in the country had been certified free.

“We are not happy with this decision on the resumption of schools. Schools should be shut till the last suspected case or patient is certified free of the virus,” the NMA said.
Before the association made this known the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, had disclosed that an 18 month-old baby had been quarantined in the state for   showing symptoms of the deadly virus.

The NMA suggested that the resumption of schools could be shifted till December or early part of next year because if Ebola should spread to any school, it would “assume another dimension.”
It said, “ We can shift the resumption date till next year or in the next three months if that is the time it will take. Government should have enough time to follow the standard procedure for containing   the virus.

FG LOWERS EBOLA ALERT : Schools To Resume Mid- September

Primary and secondary schools are now to resume mid-September, instead of October 13 as earlier directed by the Federal Government because of the Ebola threat.

Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told State House journalists in Abuja yesterday that the Federal Executive Council decided to reopen the schools mid-September based on experts’ advice and the effective containment of the Ebola virus.

He said the council had directed the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, to convene an emergency meeting with all state commissioners of education in order to agree on the new resumption date.
Shekarau’s spokesman Sule Ya’u Sule, when contacted, told Daily Trust yesterday that a meeting with state education commissioners would be held tomorrow.

5-Year-Old Girl Sustains Horrific Injuries After Alleged Attacked At School (PHOTOS)

    



5 year old AvaLynn was nearly disfigured when she was allegedly attacked by another pupil at her Elementary school in Mississippi this week. The most bizarre thing about this story is that the school is maintaining that she was not attacked, rather she got the horrific injuries in an accident while playing on the playground. Makes no sense. This looks more like a vicious attack to me.

Her mother and other relatives have opened a Facebook page for the young girl to tell what happened to her and share photos of her injuries, while seeking for justice. Below is what they wrote on the Facebook page about the incident...