See How Students stage protest at National Assembly over recognition

Here is latest update as members of the National Association of Nigerian Students have protested the non-recognition of their president Mr. Chinoso Obasi, during the second anniversary of the National Assembly in Abuja on Friday. View more photos below...

See How Graduate Helps Carpenter Who Assisted Him In School 20 Years Ago

According to report gathered, here is A man identified as Onyebuchi Emenanka who graduated years back from Abia State University (ABSU) has paid a 20-year-old debt to a carpenter who helped him almost twenty years ago.

Please read below on how he captured the experience:

PAYING A 20 YEAR OLD DEBTToday, I decided to put a big smile on

Entertainment Gist: Davido offers to help his namesake 'David Adeleke' with tuition fees

The news gist trending as Davido who yesterday welcomed his second daughter, Hailey Veronica Adeleke has offered to pay the tuition fee of his namesake, David Adeleke, who appears to be a journalist.

Well according to report David who has been accepted for a media workshop at Yale University had gone to twitter to seek for financial support from friends to raise about $3,500 for

Girl arrives school’s prom in COFFIN - Watch Video

This is latest trending news as A high school student who wants to be a funeral director surprised her classmates by arriving at her prom in an open coffin.

According to report Megan Flaherty, of New Jersey, shocked friends when she turned up at Pennsauken High School's junior prom on Saturday in the back of a hearse...Scroll down for video

It is gathered that the 17-year-old lay flat on her back in a navy gown in the prop coffin, which slid out of the back of the vehicle.

Her dramatic arrival prompted outrage from some critics, who branded her

News as Driver Steals UNILAG Lecturer’s ATM Card, Withdraws N2.7m

Latest news as A driver, Mayowa Adenuga, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing his boss’ Automated Teller Machine card and withdrawing over N2.7m.

Also arrested were suspected accomplices in the crime – Adewale Opeyemi, 18, and Jeremiah Iyitoye, 29.

It is gathered that 25-year-old Adenuga, who is also a computer expert, was

UNIZIK: News As A Hunter Kills Python at Students’ Hostel

News as A 13-foot python was killed in a building close to a male hostel at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) in Awka, the Anambra State capital, last Saturday. Worried by the development, students are calling on  the management to ensure their safety. VICTOR OGBUAGU reports.

Fear. Trepidation. Excitement. These captured the mood at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) in Awka, the Anambra State capital, last Saturday when a python was killed in an uncompleted building close to a male hall of residence.

Being a weekend, majority of the students had gone out for

Student Mass Failure - LASU SUG Block School

 

This gist has it that the Lagos State University Student Union Government locked the school gate this afternoon over reported mass failure of students. Vehicles are not allowed in or out. More photos below...

Students Of Federal College Of Agriculture, Ibadan Protest

Read full details -Students of the Federal College of Agriculture, Moore Plantation, Apata, Ibadan, took to Ibadan-Abeokuta expressway the road which their school is located to protest the death of one of their students who was knocked down at the front of the school gate by a learner. According to the students, one of them, simply known as Aminu was knocked down by a learner yesterday as he attempted to cross the express road.

He will be the 3^rd student to die this week as two people were earlier knocked down during the week. Stop killing us, the students told motorists, as they were forced to park and

Nigerian Student Stabbed To Death In Accra

A 27-year-old Nigerian student studying in Ghana, Nazifi Osman Muhammed, has been stabbed to death by armed robbers at his Accra New Town residence.

Muhammed was reportedly stabbed in the stomach and chest.

Ghanaian news website, Daily Guide reports that two other students, Jamiru Osman, 23, and Mustapha Musa, 22 were injured in the Sunday morning attack.

Osman and Musa are reportedly on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
All three victims are said to be students of Sikkim Manipul University, Circle, Accra, studying Information Communication Technology (ICT).

Rights groups demand prosecution of the soldier who raped a Poly student

Remember the Ibarapa Polytechnic student who was allegedly raped by a soldier attached to the Oyo State security outfit - Operation Burst? (Read it Here) Well, there might be hope of her getting justice as human rights organisations have urged the government to investigate the sexual assault.

Popular human rights activist and President of Women Arise, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, in a chat which Punch described the alleged raping as a reflection of abuse of power by security agents.

She said, "It is sad. It is a terrible reminder of what security has become. That is the height of impunity. Soldiers that are supposed to be at the war front in the north are busy perpetrating such heinous act. There must be full investigation to ensure punishment for the perpetrator according to specifications of the law." Continue after the jump...

Also, the Coordinator, Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, Mr. Okechukwu Nwaguma, said rape was escalating due to the failure of authorities to sanction the perpetrators.

Photo Of The Day: OAU Students Praying On Highway

OAU students again on Monday started a fresh protest over the recent increase in their school fees. The fees of both old and new students were recently increased and newly admitted students instead of paying N37,150 or N42,150 (depending on faculty) will now pay N 82,400, N92,700 or N95,700.

Our Parents Can’t Calculate Our Fees In Percentage…Tell Us In Naira & Kobo, LASU Students Tell Fashola

            Lagos State university students have rejected the government’s decision to reduce the institution’s increased fees by 34-60 per cent.

           Speaking at a press conference today where the issue was addressed, the students’ union president, Nurudeen Yusuf, said the state government has been insincere in its dealings with them.

          “We do not accept the percentage reduction offered by the Government because in 2011 when the fees were increased, it was not done on percentage level. Rather, they made the pronouncement in Nigerian naira and kobo.”

Soldiers shoot protesting OAU students

Some students of Obafemi Awolowo University were on Thursday shot at by soldiers. The students were protesting the 322 per cent increase in their school fees. They were at the Ilesa-Ife high way when they were shot.

According to eyewitnesses, three of the students were shot and injured in several parts of their body with the rubber bullets.

One of the soldiers identified as Idris Ajisesi from his uniform, shot three of the students.

It was gathered that the soldiers were escorts to a presidency convoy. They were led by an ex-militant, who introduced himself as High Chief Okubo Robert.

It was learnt that Robert, who came with a jeep with number plate FG902B02, angered the

14 more girls escape from Boko Haram abductors

Borno State Commissioner for Education, Inuwa Kubo, has said that 14 more students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, have escaped Boko Haram abductors.

The commisioner said this in Maiduguri on Friday.

He said, “I am glad to say that 14 more students have escaped from their abductors. Out of this number, three are currently with

Admission Fraud: Nigerian Students Sue Ghana Agency

Some 124 students, most of whom are Nigerians are seeking in excess of 1 million cedis in damages against the Synergies Infotech Ghana Ltd, authorised partner of the Mahatma Ghandi University (MGU) in Ghana for alleged fraud. Read More Below...

Riot In Lagos State University As Students Stones VC (PHOTOS)

students running after their VC

Lagos State University students today went on the rampage  disrupting the university’s second semester examination and destroying properties in the process.

The protest which started Wednesday over the closure of the university’s registration portal, led to stoning of the University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa, as he tried to evade the riotous students who had blocked the main gate and made bonfires on the Lagos-Badagry expressway.

An eye witness told P.M.NEWS Thursday that students threw sticks and stones at the Vice Chancellor’s convoy as he made to escape through an alternative route beside Conoil Filling station. Read More Below...

BRAIN DRAIN: Over 132 Nigerian medical doctors to leave for Saudi Arabia

No fewer than 132 Nigerian medical doctors are set to leave the country for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in search of greener pastures.

The doctors, who are either in government employ or working in private hospitals attended an on-the-spot interview session conducted by a government delegation from Saudi Arabia on Saturday and Sunday.

A Human Resource firm, Omyva Concept, was said to have facilitated the interview session which took place at Protea Hotel, GRA Ikeja, Lagos. The session will end on Monday (today).

It was learnt that 56 doctors from sundry areas of specialisation attended the session on Saturday to negotiate their conditions of service in Saudi Arabia.

But as of 10am on Sunday when our correspondent visited the venue of the interview, 76 more doctors were already on ground for the same purpose.

It was further gathered that the basic salary for junior doctors, who have yet to begin their residency, ranged between N228,000 and N300,000 monthly, excluding housing and

17 students die in Pakistan bus crash

At least 17 Pakistani students on their way home from a quiz competition were killed in a school van crash on Wednesday, a hospital official said.


Three teachers and the van driver also were killed when the van and a truck collided about 170 miles northeast of Karachi.

More than

FG must sack Education minister now - Students

The national union of Colleges of Education students have called for the removal of the Supervisory Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, because of his inability to resolve the differences between the Federal Government and their lecturers.

The lecturers have been on strike over their demand for standardised education and their welfare.

In a communique issued after an emergency meeting at Abuja, the students urged the Federal Government to meet the demands of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) and those of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) before January 14, 2014.

The students also asked President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint a substantive Minister of Education and desist from leaving the sector in the hands of a supervisory minister.

The communique, which was signed by the