Oladoja Israel Ololade with CGPA of 4.86 emerged as the best graduating students at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), among a total number of 8,533 graduands from the institution for the 2022/2023 academic session. In this exclusive interview with The Informant247‘s Toheeb Omotayo, Israel, who was honoured at the 16th convocation ceremonies of the…
Suspected gunmen have reportedly kidnapped no fewer than 4 students, along the Akunnu-Ajowa road, in Akoko area of Ondo state. Reports have it that the victims were students of the Kogi State Polytechnic. It was gathered that the victims ran into the hands of the gunmen at the Ago Jinadu Axis, in Akoko. The Police Area…
University of Calabar has ordered the cessation of the practice of “water ritual’’ in the school, describing it as unwholesome and not academic. In the “water ritual’’, students pour water sporadically on matriculating and graduating students as an “initiation rite’’. The varsity’s Registrar, Mr Gabriel Egbe, stated in Calabar on Friday that the vice-chancellor, Prof….
A lecturer and his students ran for their own lives, at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State as some other students dressed as bandits entered a class while a presentation was going on. The students who stormed the venue of the presentation were dressed in military outfits, covered their faces and had dummy guns at hands….
The Police in Rivers State says its officers have arrested two students at the Community Secondary School, Nkpolu Oroworukwo, in Mile Diobu, Port Harcourt, for allegedly entangling themselves in erotic acts in an isolated classroom within the school premises. It was gathered that the two senior secondary school two students were allegedly engaged in the…
A student of the Federal University, Dutse Jigawa, Aminu Mohammed, has been sent to the Suleja Correctional Centre in Niger State after tweeting about the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari. The student was arraigned at the FCT High Court No. 14 in Abuja on Tuesday for cyber stalking where he was denied bail despite…
The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State has placed a ban on nursing mothers from carrying their babies to hostels and classrooms. This was announced via a code of morality which was signed by its governing council. The school authority has said that students hugging each other publicly on campus risk one semester suspension from the school….
The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, has said that the Nigerian students seeking education in foreign countries are the reason for the fall in naira. The CBN boss made this revelation at the 57th Annual Bankers Dinner, which was organised by the Chartered institute of Bankers Nigeria (CIBN), in Lagos State. The…
Kwara State Government has ordered the reopening of the College of Education, Ilorin. This decision came five weeks after the tertiary institution was shut down. The school was closed after a violent attack by some students which resulted in the destruction of some public property by some students. The new development was confirmed in a…
The National Examination Council, NECO, has released the 2022 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination,SSCE, (internal) results, with 60.74 percent scoring five credits and above in both English Language and Mathematics out of a total of 1,198,412 candidates. It stated that when compared to 2021 SSCE, figure of 878,925, representing 71.64%, the results showed a decrease…
A 7 self-contained apartment in a private hostel occupied by the Students of Kwara State Polytechnic, has on Wednesday gutted by fire The private hostel known as “GQ Hostel” was located outside the Polytechnic Campus at Apata Yakuba area, Ilorin had 7 of the 11 self-contained flats consumed by the fire. Informant247 gathered that, the…
Male students took to the streets in Bauchi on Monday to protest the separation of boys and girls in secondary schools. Commissioner for Education, Dr. Aliyu Tilde said last week the government decided to segregate male and female students in public secondary schools because of student moral decadence on social media, which is common in…
The Informant247 learnt that female students in Katsina did better than their male colleagues in the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE. Prof. Badamasi Lawal, the Commissioner for Education in the state made this revelation at the closing event of the Girl Education Project (GEP-III) on Thursday in Katsina. The professor has related…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Monday, sentenced a 31-year old teacher, Idowu Daniel to seven years imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 16-year old student within a school premises The convict was charged with defilement. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the convict, as the victim…
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the union of universities’ lecturers is willing to put an end to its seven-month-old industrial strike. The president made this revelation on Thursday in Abuja, at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our…
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, revealed that members of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS, who blocked the ever-busy Lagos Ibadan express road are “violating” the law of the country. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, the Minister of Works and Housing, made this while addressing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive…
Musa David, 25, a student of the Department of Banking and Finance, Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic (WUFP), Birnin Kebbi, has reportedly killed himself. He allegedly killed himself while in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Birnin Kebbi. However, the NSCDC has falsified the allegation, which was widely publicized in…
The Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has frowned at the manner the ever-busy Lagos Ibadan express road has been blocked by university students who’re protesting the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The Informant247 observes that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had begun industrial action since February 2022 after…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Tuesday directed students within the South-Western region of Nigeria to stage protest against the long-running Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU strike, which has lingered for no lesser than seven months. The angry students in their hundreds stormed the highway and barricaded the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Shagamu Interchange….
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and five university students have filed a case against President Muhammadu Buhari. They have told the court to “declare unlawful the refusal by the Federal Government to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which has occasioned the prolonged strike action and violated the…
