The radical, wide-ranging move will transform the country’s higher education landscape, education experts said. Lu Xin, a vice-minister in China’s Ministry of Education, announced the decision to turn 600 of the country’s general universities into polytechnics at a meeting of college and university leaders at the 2014 China Development Forum earlier this year. She said […]

They lamented that even founders of the party and those who laboured to secure victory for the party at various levels had been abandoned and, while outsiders reap where they did not sow. In a communiqué issued after the meeting, the chairmen said APC faithful across the country had been confronted with shame, dejection and […]

More details into the killing of Navy Commandant Oluwayemisi Ogundana, of Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Secondary School, Jaji emerged on Monday as investigations showed that she was having extra-marital affairs with her murderer. Aside from the relationship, the murderer, one Mr Simon Bernard, who was the Chairman of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) […]

Details and circumstances of the incident were not immediately clear, amid speculation that he had financial problems, while unconfirmed reports pointed to infidelity. Dambaza died on the spot and people had to call the police to attend the scene. The body was taken to a local mortuary for post-mortem. Investigations to ascertain the circumstances leading […]

Two lovers, Tunde Ogunseye and Funmiayo Oyelaja, have been arrested for allegedly hacking into the federal government’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) account and stealing N60 million from it. The suspects, who had been on the police wanted list, were said to have bolted to Ghana when the lid was blown on their act. The […]

Narrating how it all started, Aderinsola who has a sickle cell trait otherwise known as  sickler said “It all started when I had swollen legs and  I was diagnosed of having sickle cell anaemia when I was a year and a half. Ever since, it has been one crisis or the other. It got worst […]

Oke, who hails from Ohataekwe in Umuezeokaoha community, Ezza North Local Government Area of the state had collapsed after the marathon praying and fasting on a mountain in Azugwu, Abakaliki metropolis. Oke, who commenced the fasting on July 23, sneaked to the mountain without informing his widowed mother, Elizabeth and his elder brother, Obinna Oke […]

The suspect who has reportedly been terrorising women in Port Harcourt was apprehended on his way to Uyo from Rivers state was arrested by security operatives. Tribune reports that the suspect said he was not the member of any group but acted alone. He reportedly said his dead mother was poisoned by unknown persons. He […]

Several others also sustained injuries in the accident. The accident involved an 18 seater bus with registration number Ekiti LG 05 MUE. Eyewitnesses confirmed that the victims were returning from a wedding reception when the tragedy occured. One witness, Abiodun, told SaharaReporters that the driver lost control of the vehicle’s wheel. He said, “The vehicle […]

The chairman of the three-man panel, justice A.M. Yakubu, in a unanimous judgment in Uyo, dismissed all the evidence of the petitioner without witnesses, adding that, “without oral evidence to confirm how the materials were arrived at, such evidence are considered as being dumped in the tribunal.” Citing the Supreme Court in the case of Nweke V INEC, […]