Category: News
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Missing OAU Student Found Dead as Police Arrest Six Suspects
Osun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of six suspects in connection with the death of missing Master in Business Administration (MBA) student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria who was found dead at a yet to be disclosed area on Monday. The Image maker of the Command, Opalola Olawoyin, stated this in…
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Convocation: Graduating UI Students With Lower Grades Decry Management’s Decision
Some graduating students of the University of Ibadan have decried the Nigeria’s premier university management’s decision to ban all, except first class graduates, from its 2021 Convocation ceremony. The university on Monday held its Convocation and Award Ceremony for the First Degrees at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, with only the first…
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Insecurity: Sheikh Gumi Builds School For Herdsmen in Kaduna Forest
Controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has built a school for herdsmen at Kagarko Grazing Reserve near Kohoto Village forest as a way of tackling insecurity in Kaduna State. Daily Trust reported that the cleric named the school Sheikh Uthman Bin Fodio Centre. Funded by the Sultan Mosque Foundation Limited, the pilot project was designed…
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Obi Cubana Shuts Down Abuja Club, Hustle and Bustle Indefinitely
Abuja based club, Hustle and Bustle owned by popular socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana, has been shut down over death of a female customer inside the club building. The management of the club confirmed this in a statement on Monday. It also condoled with the family of the unnamed deceased. “We are…
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Strike: ASUU Gives FG Three Weeks Ultimatum To Meet Demands
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum to meet its demands contained in the Memorandum of Action (MoA), signed by both parties on December 23, 2020. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this on Monday while addressing reporters in Abuja. He warned that the union might be…
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Secondary School Student Writes Book On COVID-19,Sends Message To Unvaccinated Nigerians
A Senior Secondary School (SSS) student, Miss Zainab Jimoh, has enjoined unvaccinated Nigerians to go for their jabs against COVID-19 in the interest of the nation’s dwindling economy. Jimoh, 12, made the call on Sunday in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State at the launch of her book titled: “Year 2020 COVID-19…
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Africa’s Richest Man, Aliko Dangote Losses Brother
The vice president of Dangote Group and owner of Dansa Agro-allied Limited, Sani Dangote, is dead. The vice president of Dangote Group and owner of Dansa Agro-allied Limited, Sani Dangote, is dead. He was a younger brother to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Two close family sources confirmed the death to DAILY NIGERIAN, saying Mr…
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How UNILORIN Student ‘Beats’ Lecturer To Stupor, Eyewitness
An eyewitness who craved for anonymity has revealed how a 400-level student, simply identified as Captain Walz, of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty Of Life Sciences, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, ‘beaten’ his project supervisor, a female lecturer, to stupor. According to the source, the accused student went to the lecturer’s office to seek her…
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DSS Reacts To Disappearance, Death of Vanguard Journalist, Tordue Salem
Vanguard The Department of State Service (DSS) has down-rightly debunked being culpable in the disappearance and death of Vanguard journalist, Tordue Salam. The Public Relations Officer of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, made the clarification at a one-day seminar organised by the security agency in conjunction with the FCT Chapter of the Nigerian Union of…
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I Commit No Offence To Warrant Trial, Detention in Benin Republic, Sunday Igboho
Lead agitator for self-determination for Yoruba ethnic group, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, insists he has not committed any offence to warrant his continued detention in Benin Republic. Speaking exclusively with Sunday Vanguard, through his lead counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), at the weekend, Igboho noted that the Beninese government was only acting…