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Month: March 2021

  • Jamb Gives Updates On Sale of 2021 UTME, DE Registration Forms

    Jamb Gives Updates On Sale of 2021 UTME, DE Registration Forms

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, says it has concluded all arrangements to commence the sale of 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and Direct Entry, DE, registration forms. The board disclosed this in its Vol. 2, No. 15 Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made available to newsmen on Monday…

  • Suspected Gunmen Abduct Two Female Varsity Students in Ogun

    Suspected Gunmen Abduct Two Female Varsity Students in Ogun

    Two 300 level female students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ayetoro campus of the Olabisi Onabanjo University(OOU), Ogun State, have been abducted by gunmen suspected to be people carrying out ‘kidnapping for ransom.’ The student identified as Adeyemo Precious and Oyefule Abiola – one is said to be studying Forestry and Wildlife Management while the…

  • 300-level UNN Student Commits Suicide After Allegedly Caught Cheating In Exam

    A 300 level student of Biochemistry Department, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, identified as Daniel Mba, committed suicide by plunging from the third-floor of a storey building on Friday, March 12. It was gathered that the deceased, from Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, was caught cheating with his phone during the ongoing examination…

  • Batch ‘A’: NYSC Blacklists Graduates From Eight Foreign Varsities [Full List]

    Batch ‘A’: NYSC Blacklists Graduates From Eight Foreign Varsities [Full List]

    The management of National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, has blacklisted graduates of eight foreign universities in Benin Republic, Niger and Cameroon from participating in the 2021 Batch A orientation course. According to DAILY NIGERIAN most of the affected universities award degrees few months after matriculation, and they are referred to as “Cotonou Universities”. In a…

  • Fuel Price Hike: NANS Issues Stern Warning To FG

    The National Association of Nigerian Students has warned the Federal Government against inflicting further pains on the suffering masses with the incessant increase of the pump price of petrol in the country. The students have accordingly threatened to shut down the nation’s economy through massive civil disobedience should the government contemplate increasing pump price in…

  • Video: Abductors of Kaduna Students Demand N500 Million, as Students Narrate Ugly Experience

    Abductors of 39 students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Igabi local government area of Kaduna state have demanded for N500 million as ransom for their release. Three parents of some of the abducted students have confirmed to Daily Trust correspondents that the abductors have reached out and made a demand of…

  • How I Was Violently Raped Five Times, Popular Nollywood Actress Reveals

    Popular Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, has narrated how she was brutally raped five times. Ojo made the revelation in an episode of: “Bare it all with I Y.” She stated that she was first raped at the age of 14 but refused to tell anyone because it was like taboo to be raped at that…

  • Post UTME: UI Gives Update on Screening Exercise

    Post UTME: UI Gives Update on Screening Exercise

    The management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has given update on its 2020/2021 post utme screening exercise. The premier Varsity gave the update in a statement released by the Registrar, Olubunmi O. Faluyi, on Friday, stressing that the school is yet to schedule a date and venue for the exercise. “The attention of management…

  • Polytechnic Student, 5 Others Arrested For Allegedly Killing 2 POS Operators

    A 25-year-old student of Abia State Polytechnic identified as Uzoma Samuel and five other suspects have been arrested for the murder of two Point of Sale (POS) operators in Aba. Ezinne Grace Iroh, 23, from Ohafia LGA, died on January 30, 2021, after she was shot by armed robbers at Ukaegbu Road, in Ogbor Hill…

  • OPC Member Recounts Encounter With Suspected Kidnappers’ Kingpin, Wakili

    OPC Member Recounts Encounter With Suspected Kidnappers’ Kingpin, Wakili

    Members of Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, who arrested and handed over suspected kidnappers’ Kingpin in Oyo, Iskilu Wakili , to police in Igboora, Oyo State, before the subsequent movement of all to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan, have said that his arrest was as a result of his suspected involvement in the spate…