•Late Javits Frimpong A 15-year-old Ghanaian boy, Javits Frimpong, has been shot dead while on his way to school in the Bronx, New York, with his father suspecting that the killing was connected to bullying at school. Javits was reportedly shot in the stomach at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday near Crotona Park. He was rushed […]
Mansur Muhammad, the father of five children who died after a water tanker rammed into a tricycle conveying them to school in Gombe metropolis, has recounted his final moments with the deceased. The accident occurred yesterday morning near Kanady Academy, along APC Square in the state capital’s Government Reserved Area (GRA), reports Daily Ind...
The management of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has suspended all academic activities at its School of Post-Basic Psychiatric Nursing indefinitely following the death of a student. The suspension was announced in a notice issued yesterday and signed by the Coordinator of Programme and Head of School, Dr Taiwo Omirin...
•Out of school children The Ibironke Adeagbo Foundation (IA-Foundation) has called for urgent investment in girls’ education, warning that poverty, child marriage and inadequate funding are undermining Nigeria’s economic potential. The foundation said about 7.6 million girls are among the 18.3 million out-of-school children at the basic educat...
•CCTV image of a gunman running near the school A teenager opened fire outside a high school in western Turkey today, wounding 11 pupils, before being detained in the country’s third such shooting in six months, officials said. Three of the victims were in serious condition following the attack outside a school in Turgutlu near […]...
A father in Kano, Suleiman Yunusa, has narrated how a sand-laden truck crushed two of his sons to death while they were returning home from school. The children, 10-year-old Ahmad Suleiman and six-year-old Mohammed Suleiman, were killed when the truck ran over the motorcycle conveying them along the Rimin Auzinawa-Yan Rake road in Ungogo Local...
•15-year-old Ridwan Bolaji, and Ogun Police Public Relation Officer, Oluseyi Babaseyi A 15-year-old boy who had been working as a roadside photographer at Olumo Rock, Abeokuta, Ogun State, is set to return to school following an intervention by the Ogun State Police Command and members of the Police Community Relations Committee. The teenager...
Grade A Customary Court, sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has dissolved the 11-year-old union between a couple, Moyosore and Olukayode, on the account of deceit, irresponsibility, lack of care, addiction to drugs, domestic violence and constant threat by the latter. Moyosore, who dragged her husband, Olukayode to court stated that he marrie...
•Terrorists Troops of Operation HADIN KAI, in collaboration with personnel of the Nigeria Police Mobile Force, have foiled an attempted mass abduction by suspected Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists at the Federal Government Girls College, Monguno, Borno State. The military disclosed this in a statement issued today by the Acting Mi...
•Bandits Suspected bandits have attacked Government Secondary School, Opada-Olowa in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, abducting the school principal, a National Examinations Council (NECO) supervisor, and four students. The attack reportedly occurred around 2 p.m, yesterday, while students were sitting for the examination, reports D...

