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Those who made above 1.00 but below 1.5 grade points for the 2011/ 2012 session were asked to repeat. The acting Vice Chancellor of IMSU, Professor Ukachukwu Aloysius Awuzie said the Senate of the Institution initiated the measure in order to encourage seriousness. Professor Awuzie explained that they want to ...

Forty-two per cent of Nigerian youths are unemployed. I have two daughters with Masters Degrees and they are unemployed. They have been at home for more than a year and I cannot get a job for them.

The other Woolwich killer has been�identified�as Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, southeast London . Like Michael Adebolajo, he’s also a British�citizen of Nigerian descent,though not much is known about his family. More info about Michael Olumide Akinbiyi Adebolajo . He was born on December 10, 1984, at Kings College ...

  KATMANDU, Nepal An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer became the oldest person to reach the top of�Mount Everest�on Thursday. Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 29,035-foot peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time, according to a Nepalese mountaineering official and Miura’s Tokyo-based support ...

Policemen attached to Ilemba Hausa division in Lagos State have arrested a couple and two others who allegedly specialized in abducting children between ages one and four years and selling them to barren women and motherless homes in the eastern part of the country. So far, about seven children reportedly ...

He was just 25years old and has been identified as Lee Rigby.He just started his Army career and had recently �served in Afghanistan with the Royal Regiment of Fusillers. He was walking towards the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich when he was run down by a car on the pavement ...

Unconfirmed reports reaching us and circulating over the social media has it that the authorities of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB may end reducing the general UTME cut-off mark for admission into various tertiary institutions in the country. If this happens, this would definitely be as a result ...

�The Government of Lagos State Nigeria has started the initial phase of the construction of 4th Mainland Bridge, a 26km state of the art bridge designed to link Ikorodu to Eti Osa Local Government Area. In an interview with THISDAY, Lagos State Commissioner of Works and Infrastructer, Dr Obafemi Hamzat ...

Michael Mujahid Adeboloja has reportedly been identified as one of the London attackers, the man in the video alone. Word is that he is a Muslim convert. His muslim�name Mujahid means�”one who fights Jihad.” Someone claiming to be his friend identified him on Twitter. Jeremy says he is a Nigerian ...

A female Arik staff was arrested yesterday Tuesday May 21st at Heathrow airport London for allegedly carrying cocaine worth about N180 million. Temitayo Olubunmi Daramola was arrested with�6kg of cocaine while another hostess Delita Abibimgbi was arrested for having 60 packets of cigarettes in her possession. The max limit of ...

The Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Christian Tettey Yehonu, has directed authorities of the Synagogue Church of all Nations to quit hosting revivals at their Spintex auditorium in Accra. Speaking to Citi News, DCOP Yehonu noted that the stampede that occurred at the weekend could have been avoided if ...

Woman bathed with acid by rejected lover 23 year old Blessing Ikhumhi, a student of Edo State School of Health Technology was bathed with acid by her ex-boyfriend Cyril Okosun after she ended things with him. According to the story by Guardian, On March 23rd 2013, Cyril asked to speak ...

The body of Late Prof. Chinua Achebe’s arrived in Nigeria today and was received ceremoniously by government officials at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The body has since been moved to Enugu, where it was received by his elder brother, Chief Augustine Achebe, other family members and state government officials. ...

According to a story in Encomium magazine, the family of former Liberian president and war crimes prisoner, Charles Taylor, have been ejected from their N2.5million per year rented mansion in Diamond Hills in Calabar, Cross Rivers state. The family he left behind in Calabar as he faced criminal charges in ...

Nelson Mandela’s daughters are suing him for the rights to his artworks and control of his millions, it has been reported. On Monday, Zenani and Makaziwe Mandela intended fighting an order of Johannesburg High Court in April 2004, which gave Mandela the right to instruct Ismail Ayob, his then lawyer, ...

In a bizarre incident on Sunday, a 13-year-old school girl was forced to marry a man originally scheduled to marry her elder sister. The 18-year-old refused to marry the man, 25, and run away on the day of the marriage. In her place however, her 13-year-old sister was forced to ...

A Miami man briefly wrestled with and ultimately used a knife to kill a Burmese python measuring 18 feet, 8 inches. That sets a state record for pythons captured or killed in the wild. The previous record measured 17 feet, 7 inches. Jason Leon was not hunting pythons but, while ...

So amazing! When a massive tornado hit an elementary school in Oklahoma, a courageous teacher risked her life to protect six of her students from the powerful storm by covering them with her body. On May 20, a two-mile-wide tornado ripped through Moore, Okla. destroying hundreds of businesses, homes, and ...

1. Changed the golden throne by a wooden chair… Something more appropriate for the disciple of a carpenter. 2. Did not want the gold-embroidered red stole, Heir of the Roman Empire, nor the red chasuble… 3. Uses same old black shoes, not the classic red. 4. Uses a metal cross, ...

  The military has advised the media to be objective and not to take sides with criminals. This statement was made by�the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major-General Garba Wahab while addressing newsmen on the activity of the military in dislodging insurgent elements from terrorism trouble-spots ...