•Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) main gate Students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, have declared a 72-hour lecture boycott in protest against what they described as an “inadequate and poorly implemented” campus transportation system linked to vehicles donated by Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu. The boycott is s...
•Road safety officials at scene of an accident No fewer than six final-year nursing students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) have been confirmed dead in a tragic road crash as they travelled to sit for their final examinations. The six students, all 500-level candidates in the institution’s Open and Distance Learning ...
Police authorities in Ondo State have confirmed the death of two students of the Ondo State-owned Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, after they drowned inside a swimming pool at a hotel in the town. The victims were said to be among the new students who matriculated at the university. The spokesperson of the state police command, [&hel...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has clarified that candidates currently enrolled in tertiary institutions can register for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry, but must disclose their matriculation status, warning that failure to do so could result in the forfeiture of both admissi...
•A fire outbreak Ten university students died and three were injured in a restaurant fire in southeastern Peru as they gathered for a birthday celebration, police said yesterday. The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in Huancane city in the Andean region of Puno near the Bolivian border, reports AFP. The victims, aged between 17 […]...
Five abducted students of the Rivers State University (RSU) have been rescued unhurt following a combined operation by the Rivers State Police Command, sister security agencies, and critical support from local community leaders. The victims — Prince London, Azubuike Kelechukwu, Elizabeth Anietie, Onyebuchi Precious, and London Sampson —were ki...
•Road safety officials at scene of accident Two students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) on SIWES with the Industrial Training and Coordinating Unit (ICTU) have died, while others were injured in a fatal road accident along the Misau–Hardawa road in Bauchi State. The Deputy Registrar, ICTU, Yahuza Haruna Gital, disclosed this i...
•Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK) main gate Tension broke out at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, today after the institution moved to enforce its ban on the popular post-examination “signing off” tradition among final-year students. In a video shared by Facebook user, Okwa C. Ifugo, two yet-to-be-identified female students were se...
•An accident scene Two persons suspected to be university students in Bayelsa State have been crushed to death after a tipper truck collided with a tricycle along Tombia-Ammassoma road. It was gathered that the accident which occured on Tuesday, also left some passengers in the tricycle critically injured, reports Daily Trust. According to som...
Hostels at Rivers State University (RSU) have become sources of fear and distress, with a series of unsettling incidents plaguing Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Students of the affected hostels, A and C, lamented that they were facing a series of robberies and attacks, reports The Guardian. In Hostel A, a recurring problem of...
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