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Jumbrox Challenge 2018: Dissecting The Nexus Between Oil and The Economy

July 5, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

By Akinwale Kasali In respect to the call by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, for the government to improve the standard of education in Nigeria, especially at the tertiary level. UNESCO also faulted the lack of coexistence, interdependence, unity, cohesiveness, qualitative educational competitiveness, good educational structure/foundation, healthy and friendly relationship among undergraduates in the country, making them unable to compete with their peers around the world. In this vein, Jumbrox Challenge, a brain-child of Jumbrox Ltd, an ICT company, has for the past two years held…

SS 3 Student Impregnated By Five Teachers

July 5, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

By Akinwale Kasali Sa’adatu, a SS3 student of the Polytechnic Staff School, Birnin-Kebbi, in Kebbi State has indicted five male teachers of having sexual relationship with her leading to her pregnancy. The alleged randy teachers who were the tutor of Sa’adatu had on several occasions at different times had sex with the student, putting the girl in a state of confusion to ascertain who actually impregnated her among the randy teachers. The victim could not, however, identify who among the teachers was responsible for the pregnancy. It was gathered that…

Rugogi Residents Lambast Gov. El-Rufai

May 28, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

By Akinwale Kasali This is not the best of time for Governor Nasir El-Rufai, as Rugogi community in Igabi Local Governments area of Kaduna State have urged the state government to post teachers to their only primary school which had its 15 teachers sacked months ago. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the community made the request when the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, visited the village. The village Head, Hussaini Zubairu, told the commissioner that their children have not been going to school since…

Tax Debt: OAU Sealed

May 2, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

By Akinwale Kasali For several weeks now, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has been in the news over sex for marks scandal that rocked the institution. Officials of the Osun State Internal Revenue Service today stormed the institution, and sealed the main gate and the administrative block over a tax debt of N1.8 billion. The magazine gathered the officials of the revenue agency, together with heavily armed security operatives, stormed the university and sealed the institution after getting an order of the court to do so. An official…

Nigeria Sues Alabama University

March 1, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

The Nigerian government has dragged a university in the United States, the Alabama State University, to court for allegedly mishandling the scholarship meant for students’ rent, books and food. According to a BBC report, Nigeria also accuses the university of charging them for accommodation they did not use and lessons they did not take. But the university has denied the allegation, telling local media it had “adhered to and complied with every instruction and direction given to the university by the Nigerian government regarding that agreement.” It admitted that the…

Missing Dapchi School Girls: Military Employs Fishermen, Farmers

February 28, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

The military has employed the services of local fishermen and farmers in the search for the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls, the head of counter-insurgency operation in the North East (Operation Lafiya Dole), Maj. Gen. Rogers Nicholas, has said. Speaking at the inauguration of helipad, office complex and residential quarters for officers and airmen at the newly established 171 Nigerian Air Force Detachment in Monguno town by the National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno on Tuesday evening, Nicholas said over 200 hours have been spent by crafts combing the Theatre for the…

India School Bars Student From Wearing Shoe Into Exam Hall

February 22, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

Bihar, a state in eastern India has banned students appearing for this year’s Class “X” board examinations from wearing shoes and socks, to curb cheating. “The board has decided that candidates wearing only slippers will be allowed to enter the examination halls, those coming to the centres wearing shoes and socks will have to remove them outside the hall,” head of Bihar School Examination Board Anand Kishor told the media. “The board has taken this decision to prevent cheating,” he added. A senior official said 1.7 million students are appearing…

Boko Haram Strikes Again, Abduct Scores Of Girls In Yobe State

February 21, 2018 Akinwale Kasali

By Akinwale Kasali Few weeks ago, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, disclosed that the Boko Haram Insurgents has been technically defeated, stressing that the factional leader of the terrorist’s group, Ibrahim Shekau, has fled, with serious degrees of injuries sustained during a face-off with the Military Joint Task Force, JTF, who had been restoring peace back to the North Eastern part of the country. Sadly, in a twist of fate, the terrorist group struck yesterday, as scores of young girls were declared missing, havinn been abducted…

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