An eyewitness account of the explosion that rocked the Islamic school in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday, has said the bomb was brought to school by one of the students. The blast at the Sani Uthman Islamiyya School, Kuchibuyi Village, Bwari area council had claimed two lives and injured two persons, reports Channels TV. [&hellip...
•Explosion A suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated at an Islamiyyah school in the Kuchibiyu Community of Bwari Area Council, Abuja, killing one student and injuring four others. The explosion, reported around noon, caused widespread panic within the school and the surrounding community, reports Vanguard. The deceased student wa...
•Rape A part-time lecturer of the Department of Primary Education and Early Childhood Development of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin, Lagos, Kolawole Muyiwa, yesterday, appeared before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, presided over by Justice Ramon Oshodi, on trial for the alleged rape of a student. ...
Master Chinaemere Opara, has sued the Federal Ministry of Education, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Universities Commission (NUC) over the introduction of the new admission policy. Opara, a 15-year-old Senior Secondary School (SSS) Student, filed the suit through his guardian, Mr Maxwell Opara, his father ...
•Boko Haram terrorists Mallam Saleh Ali, one of the parents of the Faudiya Islamic school in Geidam, Yobe State, where children were attacked and killed by suspected Boko Haram members, described the killings as barbaric and heartless. Gunmen, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram insurgency group attacked the school in the early hours [&h...
•Executive Secretary, NELFund, Dr. Akintunde Sawyer Data released by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund today revealed that an additional 2,120 students have benefited from the student loan scheme bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 22,120. A statement by NELFUND’s spokesman, Nasir Ayitogo, in Abuja said the loans disbursed across many...
•Late Salisu A female student of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Naja’atu Salisu, has been confirmed dead after slumping in the bathroom. The 300-level student of computer science died after she was found unconscious by her sister in the bathroom on Friday, reports The PUNCH. Her roommate, who pleaded for anonymity, explained to our...
Sixteen more state-owned tertiary institutions have been onboarded for the student loan scheme under the coordination of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. In a post on X, the fund via its official handle, @NELFUND noted today that the addition of the 16 institutions brings the total number of registered state-owned institutions to 86. NELFUND ...
A 300-level Linguistics student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA, simply identified as Emmanuel, was at the weekend shot dead. Unidentified gunmen killed him in one of the private students’ hostels in the town, reports Vanguard. The motive for the attack, which sent shockwaves through the university town, is not yet known...
•Student protesters Student protesters in the central Bangladeshi district of Narsingdi stormed a jail today and freed hundreds of inmates before setting it on fire, a police officer told our correspondent. “The inmates fled the jail and the protesters set the jail on fire,” the police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I don’t...
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