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As agitation against the newly announced Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire enters day four, the protest took another turn on Tuesday, as masquerade spotted at campus gate. The masquerade was seen praying for the progress of the city and also raining courses against the perceived enemies of the…

The Ogun State Police Command on Monday paraded 15 suspected criminals for various crimes, including armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, among others. The state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, who paraded the suspects at the police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Monday, said they were arrested in different parts of the state. Among those who were paraded…

West African Examination Council (WAEC) has banned no fewer than 35 secondary schools in Rivers State from presenting candidates for the Secondary School Certificate Examination over their involvement in examination malpractices. A letter signed by the Deputy Registrar/Zonal Coordinator for Head of National office of West African Examinations Council, WAEC, S.D. KUM was forwarded from…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, sacked two federal lawmakers and 18 members of the Cross River State House of Assembly, following their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, held that the…

The National Universities Commission, NUC, has approved 13 new courses for Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso. This approval of the courses was contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr Lekan Fadeyi on Monday. He said the approval was contained in a letter written to the Oyo State-owned…

Nigeria-born Ukrainian Student, Uzaifa Halilu Modachi, has reportedly died in Sokoto two weeks after being evacuated from the war ravaged Ukraine. Before his death, Halilu Modachi was said to have stayed in Ukraine for three years without returning home for vacation. The final year student of Zaporozhye State Medical University Ukraine was preparing for his…

As students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, continue to bear the brunt of seeming face-off between aggrieved indigenes of Ile-Ife and the management over the emergence of non-indigene as the Vice Chancellor of the government owned institution, the Olayiwola led students’ union has advised the management on what to do to safe its teeming…

Following the protest that ensued in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife minutes after the announcement of Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire as the new Vice Chancellor of OAU by some aggrieved indigenes of the ancient city, the protesters on Monday went spiritual as some of them were seen in their full-blown traditional regalia. The protesters in the…