A senior lecturer in Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) {names withheld}, has been arraigned before Magistrate Court 2, Owerri, on a three-count charge of attempting to have unlawful carnal knowledge of his student (names withheld) without her consent.

Imo State Police Command has spread its dragnet to apprehend a middle aged man, Nnamdi Obioha Amadi, from Amauzari, Isiala Mbano local council area of Imo State, for allegedly setting his pregnant wife, Chibuzor, ablaze.

OWwerri -The Bishop of Okigwe, Anglican Communion, Dr. Edward Osuegbu, has called on the Federal Government to enter into meaningful and constructive dialogue with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) leadership, so as to end the current industrial action by the lecturers. Bishop Osuegbu made the appeal in his message to the Anglican Youth […]

By Tina Akannam Dutse – Jigawa State Independent Electoral Commission Chairman, Alhaji Alili Galadima, has announced  that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given approval for the creation of additional 1,600 polling units in Jigawa state before  the 2011 general elections. Galadima who disclosed this in Dutse while speaking with newsmen said the creation […]

By Peter Duru Makurdi – Nigeria’s Ambassador to Canada, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, has pleaded with striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its industrial action in the interest of helpless Nigerian students. Hagher who urged the striking lecturers to return to the classrooms assured them the Yar’Adua-led administration would not fail to […]