Gunmen have kidnapped Dr Monday Hassan Zitta, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at the Plateau State University, Bokkos. It was gathered that he was abducted alongside former governorship aspirant in the 2019 election, Nkemi Nicholas Nshe in Shendam in the early hours of Saturday Jan 1. Nshe and Hassan’s abduction came…
Suspected armed robbers attacked the Polytechnic of Ibadan in the early hours of Monday, December 20. The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr Soladoye Adewole, who confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the attack occurred at about 12:30 a.m at the North campus of the polytechnic It was gathered…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that it will take action if the Federal Government’s fails to meet its demand in the next 48 hours. Lecturers in the country had threatened to embark on another strike following the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action the federal government signed with the union, upon which…
Kwara State University, Malete, has dismissed a member of its academic staff, Pelumi Adewale, over the alleged sexual harassment of one Tosin Adegunsoye, a student of the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences of the school. KWASU Vice-Chancellor, Mustapha Akanbi, made the revelation in Ilorin on Monday, December 6, while addressing a news conference…
Comrade Akolo Akpavan Best, the president of the Students Union Government, SUG, College of Education Akwanga, Nasarawa state, was spotted moving around with bodyguards.
The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa, a final year Microbiolgy student after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs Zakariyya. Salaudeen, who is popularly known as Captain Walz, was arrested after he beat the lecturer to coma last Thursday, November 11.The student claimed that he assaulted the…
A year-one student of Mass Communication at Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, simply identified as Wumi has died after reportedly visiting her boyfriend. The Nation reports that the student began to develop medical complications after she returned from her boyfriend’s house where she spent the night. “The girl slept in her boyfriend’s residence. When…
A young female trader was allegedly raped and killed by unknown men in Makurdi, Benue State. Joy Onuh Ogochuckwu, a graduate of the Department of Mass Communication, Benue State University, Makurdi, was killed on Tuesday night. Joy, who markets clothes online, reportedly received a call on Tuesday night from someone posing as a customer…
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has been shut down by the school’s management. This comes after a protest broke out over the death of a student of the school, Adesina Omowumi Aishat, which students blamed on medical negligence. In a press release by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olanrewaju,…
Three suspects alleged to be involved in the kidnap of over 100 students of Bethel Baptist school, Kaduna, have been arrested by the police. The suspects identified as Adamu Bello, Isiaku Lawal and Muazu Abubakar were paraded by the Force Public Relations Officers, Frank Mba, while dressed in military camouflage at the headquarters of defunct Special Anti-Robbery…
