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By Abdulkadir Rafiat The National Association of Nigerian Students on Saturday urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to go back to negotiations with the Federal Government. NANS was reacting to a statement reportedly issued by the ASUU where it threatened not to honour any further invitation for a meeting with the Federal Government. “There is a need for ASUU to continue its negotiations with the Federal Government to find a common ground to resolve issues that led to the union’s ongoing strike,’’ NANS National Public Relations Officer, Mr Bestman Okereafor, said. Okereafo, who made this known in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu, said: “We consider this decision as devilish and not in the best interest of Nigerian students. “We wonder how the lingering disputes will be resolved if meetings are boycotted. “We are calling on the leadership of ASUU to reverse its decision and consider returning to the negotiation tab...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat Nollywood actor,  Victor Olaotan , is currently experiencing health issues and needs financial contributions to enable him seek better medical treatment. The award winning actor, was involved in a ghastly accident in 2016 which cost him the use of his legs, and since has been away from the scene. It was gathered that a Gofundme was set up in the name of the actor yesterday, requesting for funds to enable the actor to get treatment abroad, and this is because he might lose both legs if not treated anytime soon. The account says: Victor Toye Olaotan has brought Joy to teeming viewers on stage, Television and the big screen through his solid work as a professional actor. For the last two years he has been incapacitated following an accident. Victor is still fighting and he has been advised to seek medical attention outside our nigerian shores” we implore your help in raising the funds. For the naira account. Here is his wife’s info since he can’t ...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat A 27 year old student of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) simply identified as Adigun Olawale Emmanuel has reportedly committed suicide. The late Olawale was said to have failed in his final year project last session and was made to repeat the current one before his death. The deceased, from the Faculty of Agriculture, was believed to have died after he drank a pesticide, Sniper, Eyewitness  reports. It was gathered that he had a grade of Second Class Upper Division but that with the failed project he would necessarily have to drop to Second Class Lower Division. In a social media note left behind, the deceased indicated that he had been accused of ‘copy and paste’, in research his works. Some neighbours claimed the deceased had been subject to depression since he failed to make the last graduation list of the institution. The incident happened on Thursday night at Oke-Odo, a student-populated area in Ilorin, Kwara state, but the corps...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat       Like the proverbial mustard seed, the Loya Milk Secondary School Swimming Competition, which started in 2016 with 10 schools, is growing bigger and better. The event sponsored by Loya Milk, a premium brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited was a fascinating experience with amazing performances by school swimmers that kept coaches and spectators spell bound at all the host venues.         The third edition of the Loya Milk Secondary School Swimming Competition, was recently held in Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos, drawing admiration from both private and public-sector representatives. The kids, who represented 40 elite schools in all, had fun, tested their fitness levels and they were rewarded with premium prizes, courtesy of Loya Milk.        Participating schools had both male and female students slugging it out for a total of 72 medals and cash prizes. The competition was als...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat  Having delivered exciting, thrilling and energetic moments to Nigerians in Ibadan, Benin, Enugu and Abuja, the Malta Guinness Maltavator Challenge Train arrives at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on the 1st of December, 2018!     The Maltavator Challenge Audition train will be making its last stop in Lagos to search for more super-fit and talented contestants for the second season of the Maltavator Challenge TV show and it promises to be even more exciting and phenomenal, so if you haven’t had a chance to audition, or have a firsthand experience of the exciting auditions this is your final opportunity. The Maltavator Challenge is a Pan African TV show which will have contestants from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroun, Cote D’Ivoire and Ethiopia, compete in mentally and physically challenging obstacle courses for a chance to win $20,000 and other fantastic prizes. The show will be aired on major TV stations across Nigeria and participati...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat       Instagram is one of the most popular and fastest growing social network at the moment. While many of us go on the platform to get entertained, there are actually a lot of people that makes a living off Instagram.        The main selling point on Instagram is your number of followers as well as interactions and many people cut corners in other to achieve this.Over the years, a lot of people have managed to grow their audience as well interactions artificially with the help of third party Apps. Instagram has however started cracking down on accounts with fake likes, follows and comments.      According to a blog post by Instagram, the social media giant announced that it has built machine learning tools to help identify and remove likes, follows and comments from inauthentic sources. Accounts using this services won’t be banned but will receive an in-app message;      “Accounts we ident...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat A Nigerian banker has killed himself after promising to write about surviving depression. Tolulope Abodunrin aka Don Tee took his own life according to his friend, Ogbeni Dipo. The incident has left family members and friends utterly devastated. It was gathered that the 2006 Accounting graduate of the University of Ilorin, who once revealed that he used to google about the fastest ways to commit suicide, took his own life on Wednesday, November, 21, 2018. Writing on Twitter, Dr. Dipo with the handle @OgbeniDipo shared the sad news: “I’ve just been informed of the death of Tolulope. He was reported to have taken his own life this week. May God forgive him of his sins and may he rest in perfect peace.”

By Abdulkadir Rafiat        The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the ongoing strike by the union will continue until the federal government resolve all the issues in contention.        It also said it has rejected Babalakin who led the FG negotiation team. This stance is coming as the Union maintained that the first meeting held with the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige has yet to go into substantive issues which led to the strike.         While speaking to newsmen after the Congress of the Union, chairman ASUU, University of Ibadan, Dr Deji Omole said ASUU members will not allow the ruling elite to destroy the heritage of the poor which is qualitative public varsity education. According to Omole, Wale Babalakin who is the leader of Federal Government team is being rejected by the Union because he is an interested party pursuing a private university license and  will do ev...

By Abdulkadir Rafiat When news went viral during the week that students of Babcock University held afro-pop singer, Kizz Daniel hostage for refusing to perform at an event organized by Babcock University Students’ Association, (BUSA), after receiving a performance fee of N3Million, many believed something was amiss. However, Kizz Daniel’s Publicist, Stephen Chibuzor, who spoke to  Showtime,  has set the records straight on the scandal. “Kizz Daniel had a booking with Babcock University Students’ Association, but they didn’t explicitly say the time he should be on ground. On that day he just returned from Dubai and there was no car to convey him from the airport to their school. They were aware he was to return from Dubai where he went for One Africa Music Fest, but probably thought not sending the usual artiste welfare rider was nothing. By the time they sorted out the transportation issue the show had ended. Kizz accepted to perform for N3Million, which is very low,...

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By Abdulkadir Rafiat  It was a moment of shock yesterday  21st of November as the ongoing convocation programme of Osun state university Osogbo was disrupted. According to a source that spoke with us, the action was pushed by the Non Academic staff Union (NASU), of the institution in protest to the management for owing them salaries and allowances of many months. The action is said not to be done by only the NASU as reports confirmed the ASUU and JACK movement joined them in the protest by unleash their concern to put on hold the ongoing convocation. Osun state university is a multi campus school with each of the six campuses is scheduled to have their convocation programme in the main campus this week. The event started on Wednesday  and continually, yesterday was another day. We are however not sure if it will hold today as the ground is scattered coutesy of the protest and no official reaction has been received from the management of the institution to cal...

17-year-old actress, Tito Segun-Banjo , has been declared missing by her family. In an interview, Tito’s mum, Wemimo Segun-Banjo, said her daughter who featured in Omoni Oboli’s Wives on Strike, the Revolution, left their home in Ipaja, Lagos state on Saturday November 17th to run some errands for her dad and has since not returned home. Efforts to reach her has failed as her phone is currently switched off. ”She left the house on Saturday to run errands for her dad and has since not returned home. I have tried reaching her but her number is not responding. I am afraid. Tito is a very bright girl who knows my number by heart and would have reached out to me using someone’s number if everything is okay. I am afraid” the mum said Tito’s mum says the case has been reported to the police in Alagolo, Ipaja. She said the police officers have asked them to pay some money before they can start investigating the matter. Mrs Segun-Banjo says Tito just completed her secondary sch...

      Inspiration FM’s popular OAP, Tosyn Bucknor has been reported dead at the age of 37.       The actual cause of death is yet to be confirmed but according to reports, she was reportedly found dead by husband, Aurelien Boyer, when he arrived home from work on Monday night.        Tosyn, a notable voice on the Nigerian airwaves worked with Top Radio before joining Inspiration FM. RIP Tosyn Bucknor.

Delsu student missing  found dead, with some body parts missing. Elozino Ogege who’s a 300 level student of Delsu was declared missing on Thursday. According to the report, her remains were found at about 2am, on Monday, by residents, along Ekrejeta road in Abraka. The deceased is said to be a first class student. The Delta State Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, who confirmed the incident said the family of the girl is devastated.

       A former executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola, says over 60 percent of project reports of Nigerian undergraduates are plagiarised.       Speaking yesterday at the first Kwara State University Education Lecture, Okebukola said the rate of plagiarism as a form of academic corruption at the Masters level was between 15 and 20 percent and eight percent at the Ph.D. level.      “It’s academic corruption when lecturers don’t show up in classes as required or teach only 10 subjects out of about 20 in a semester, and when students negotiate with lecturers for marks”, he said. Okebukola said that solving problems in the education sector might be challenging, but not impossible.        “Government must place high premium on education by providing adequate financial resources for the sector. Our institutions of learning must also look for innovative ways to r...

     Forty-one students of Lead City University, Ibadan, bagged first class honours at the university’s convocation held on Thursday.      Tribune staff, Mrs Oyin Olatunji, Mr Wole Efunnuga and Mr Wale Ojo-Lanre were among the total of 838 graduates, which comprised 768 undergraduates and 70 postgraduate students. As disclosed by Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Kabiru Adeyemo, Ogunsanya Oluwatomisin of the Department of Psychology, with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.96 and Azeez Raheem, of the department of Accounting, with a CGPA of 4.86 emerged best graduating students.      Further, in his address, Adeyemo tasked the graduates to shun corruption, nepotism, fraud and other vices but be hardworking, charitable and render selfless service to humanity. He especially urged them to portray the values of self-reliance, honesty, excellence, self-competence, and self-dependence.      The roll c...

      The Lagos State University has issued warning letters to 12 students for alleged misconduct bordering on procurement of abortion, indecent dressing, conspiracy and sexual assault.      The university official bulletin, obtained by the  News Agency of Nigeria  in Lagos, said a 200 Level student was suspended for failure to appear before a panel of investigation for unlawful possession of substance suspected to be Indian hemp.        “LASU Senate at its 247th statutory meeting considered and ratified the recommendations of the Committee of Provosts, Deans and Directors on the misconduct of students.

                               Remember how the Nike and  StarBoy collaboration  jerseys  sold out in 10 minutes and not enough people could get their hands on them?      Well, the jersey is getting re-released in celebration of Nigeria’s Independence Day, October 1.Wizkid shared the news on his Instagram, writing: Due to popular demand!!! Nike x Starboy re-releasing limited jerseys 1st of October celebrating Nigerian independence day 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 lets go🚨🚨🚨🌏🌏🌏

                                         As part of celebrations for their 20th anniversary, Google released the list of top 10 prominent Nigerians who have topped the Google search list for the past decade and Linda Ikeji, President Buhari, Davido and others made the cut.           According to the Country Manager for Nigeria Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, “search is a very different product from what it was in 1998. Far from simply being a way to find information, it has become a crucial social and economic tool. This is especially true in Africa, where it has proven invaluable in helping people find jobs, start businesses, and even save money” she said.        See the full list below... Linda Ikeji Wizkid Olamide Muhammadu Buhari Davido Cristiano Ronaldo Lionel Messi Rihanna Nicki Minaj Phyno

      The first military governor of Kwara, retired Brig.-Gen. David Bamigboye, confirmed  dead.The younger brother to the deceased, retired Col. Theophilus Bamigboye,confirmed the death to the News Agency of Nigeria  on Friday on the telephone.           He said the late military governor died on Friday during a brief illness in Lagos. Th e deceased was born on December 7, 1940, and was the first military governor of Kwara between May 1967  and  July 1975.           He was credited with establishing  the Kwara State Polytechnic in 1972.