Month: March 2021

A Federal High Court sitting in Bauchi has ordered Nigeria Police Force to to pay the sum of N210 million as compensation to the victims tortured by its personnel serving with Bauchi Police Command which led to the death of two persons and incapacitation of another. The three people were sometimes last year tortured by…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has justified the directive on compulsory use of National Identity Number (NIN) for the registration of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), saying this would help in checkmating examination malpractices and security threat. The board Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede let this out on Friday, in Abuja during a…

The Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have jointly agreed on a periodic review of the implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed by both parties. The two parties agreed on the intermittent or periodic review of the MOA so that areas that will create tension will…

A staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, named Fisayo Oyeniyi, hung himself in his residence after sending suicide text to his mother, wife and children, The Nation learnt. The Nation learnt that Oyeniyi who was one of the armed guards in the security department left his working place for his house around Kanmi…

The Principal of Mt St Gabriel’s Secondary School, Makurdi, father John Asen has been asked to proceed on administrative leave with immediate effect for reportedly brutalizing a student. The Diocesan Bishop Wilfred Anagbe gave the directive following a preliminary investigation into a petition he received on the physical abuse and torture of the student. Father…

The Chief Executive of Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Professor Josiah Ajiboye has canvassed for high post utme Cut-off marks for prospective students seeking to study education related courses in colleges of education and faculties of education in the universities. Ajiboye who is also the Registrar of the Council said the current practice of…

A 52-year-old Lawyer, Wednesday arraigned by Police in Ebonyi over alleged theft of N5 million, belonging to one Igwe Nwokpata, in the state. The first defendant, Barr Onu Onwe, it was gathered, had been a lawyer to the complainant for over 13 years. He was said to have sold his (the complainant’s) piece of land…

A 200-level student of History and Diplomacy in the Federal University Otuoke (FUO), Arikekpar Lucky, allegedly suffering from depression, has committed suicide. It was gathered that the 27-year-old student popularly known as Don Zednas, hung himself with a rope tied to a ceiling fan in the early hours of Monday, March 22, after locking the…