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Oyo State Govt suspends SS2 student for slapping a corps member crazily

  The Oyo State Government has suspended a Senior Secondary School 2 student of Anglican Commercial Secondary School, Orita-Mefa, Ibadan, for one month for slapping a corps member. The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Rahman Abdu-Raheem, ordered the immediate suspension of the student during a visit to the the school on Tuesday, February 15. Rahman Abdu-Raheem said the student on return from the suspension would apologise to the corps member and sign an undertaking. The commissioner also urged the students to be of good behavior , while reiterating that the state government would not condone any act of indiscipline. Speaking further, he warned that any student caught acting in uncivilized manners, henceforth, would be dismissed from schools in Oyo State. He also charged teachers to be more dedicated and punctual at work. In other news, a woman who reportedly disguised as a lesson teacher in Rukpakulus, Eliozu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has allegedly abdu...

52 year old man tell court how he lured 9-yr-old girl with N10 biscuit and raped her....

52 year old man tell court how he lured 9-yr-old girl with N10 biscuit and raped her.... Ibadan—Chief Magistrate N. A. J. Ogunbona of the Ibadan Magistrate’s Court, Iyaganku- Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Monday, rained curses on those who take pleasure in raping minors, as a 52-year-old man, Mr. Gabriel Olaniyan, was brought before her over allegation of raping a nine-year-old girl. The accused, arraigned on a count charge of having carnal knowledge of the minor, told the court how he lured the girl into a secluded place with N10 biscuit before raping her. The accused, however, dismissed the insinuation that he actually defiled the girl for ritual purpose.  In the charge sheet signed by Fawole Funke, the accused was alleged to have committed the act on March 1 at Alapafon Area of Ibadan. According to the charge sheet, “you Gabriel Olaniyan male, on the March 1, at about 5p.m., at Alapafon area, Ibadan, in the Ibadan magisterial district, did have unlawful carnal knowl...

Gunmen attack boat, shoot pregnant woman and Youth

Some gunmen, suspected to be sea pirates, have attacked a Yenagoa-bound passenger boat, shooting two passengers – a pregnant woman and a youth. It was learnt that the pregnant woman, Gulu Leghemo, was shot in the stomach. PUNCH Metro gathered that Leghemo and the youth, identified only as Billy, had been rushed to a medical facility in Koluama 2, in the Southern Ijaw Local Goverment Area of Bayelsa State. The boat was said to be travelling from Koluama to Yenagoa, the state capital, when the pirates struck between Koluama 1 and 2 area of the waterways. The Chairman, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Bayelsa State chapter, Lloyd Sese, who confirmed the incident, said the pirates also went away with 200 horsepower engine boat belonging to one Sunday Leghemo as well as the belongings of the passengers. “The passengers have been rescued and taken to Koluama 2,” he added. He, however, raised the alarm that the pirates blocked the Akassa route of the waterw...

Ambode advises polytechnic graduates to create jobs

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday said alumni of polytechnics and schools of innovation in the nation should utilize their preparation and abilities to make occupations and move toward becoming bosses of work as opposed to work searchers. The representative talked amid the 26th meeting of the Lagos State Polytechnic in Ikorodu, Lagos State. Ambode, who was spoken to by the Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, noticed that the monetary atmosphere of the nation required that youthful business visionaries be resolved to make riches and work openings. "On our part, we will keep on moving instruction from the standard of endorsement securing to the level of information improvement through innovation and abilities obtaining. "No general public can create without great interest in the training of its natives, or giving an empowering domain to thoughts to flourish. "You are to make business openings where none exists and drive speculation and fin...

Much obliged for being a reliable accomplice, Buhari tells Osinbajo at 61

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday joined Nigerians in wishing Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo an upbeat 61st birthday. In a message posted on his Twitter handle, @MBuhari, the President expressed gratitude toward Osinbajo for being "a devoted and tried and true accomplice." Buhari stated, "Upbeat 61st Birthday, @ProfOsinbajo. Much obliged to you for being a reliable and trustworthy accomplice on this adventure. "I join a huge number of your companions and well-wishers around the globe to wish you numerous more years of administration to God, to Nigeria, and to humankind." The Presidency, by means of @NGRPresident, additionally posted a photo of the President, who is as of now on a two-day official visit to Plateau State, praising Osinbajo on the phone. The message that went with the photo read, "President @MBuhari wishing Vice-President @Prof Osinbajo a Happy Birthday from Jos, Plateau State, prior today." Likewise, the National Leade...

We Are Tired Of Weeping,Make Us Happy-Bama Women

Gathering of ladies from Bama Local Government of Borno State has approached President Muhammadu Buhari to make the current year's International Women Day paramount for them by guiding the military to free their relatives who had been kept since 2015 on the doubt of being individuals from Boko Haram. In an open letter routed to the President, the ladies, under the periods of Knifar Movement, said they had done everything without any result to persuade the military that their spouses were not extremists. The gathering, which said it had more than 1,300 individuals at present living in IDP camps in Borno State, asked the President to enable them to rejoin with "our 1,269 relatives who are confined by the military." The ladies said they were disappointed that the military neither discharged nor charged their confined relatives to court, where they could demonstrate their guiltlessness. "Our relatives – in excess of 1,269 men, ladies and kids – were...

I will confer suicide if… – Obasanjo

I will confer suicide if… – Obasanjo Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he wouldn't see any problems to confer suicide if Nigeria loses trust even as he offered reasons why he couldn't stayed quiet when he sees things turning out badly in the nation. He says in light of the fact that he is a serious positive thinker in the Nigerian undertaking, he would proceed to talk and call attention to things turning out badly on the grounds that despite everything he trusts that Nigeria has incredible expectation. Noting inquiries from understudies of the Ijaw National Academy(INA) Kaiama at the school hall as a major aspect of exercises arranged for his two day working visit to Bayelsa, Obasanjo said notwithstanding the financial and political difficulties defying the nation, there is extraordinary seek after Nigeria. While conceding that there are things that could have been done another way, he demanded that Nigerians ought not surrender seek as that would spell...

Watch Philippine’s President Crushes Luxury Cars Worth N432m In Crackdown On Smuggling

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had bulldozers destroy $1.2 million worth of smuggled cars at the Bureau of Customs, days after promising to dispose of vehicles brought into the Southeast Asian country illegally. Some of the cars were luxury models, valued as high as $115,000. Yet, it took just minutes for them to be reduced to nothing more than scrap metal. He was on hand to watch Jaguars, BMWs,Corvette Stingray Lexus and SUVs be crushed and He said “Give it to the buyer of steel". “They cannot have cars like that. But they can get something, make toys out of it.” Last year alone, the Bureau of Customs seized $2.93 million worth of smuggled cars, part of a greater $866 million in seized goods according to government data. The finance minister said “It does not pay to evade taxes in the Philippines so might as well stop trying, because you will never succeed", just as 20 vehicles were about to be destroyed at a Manila port. Another 10 were bulldozed ...

Police PRO Jimoh Moshood calls Benue Governor Samuel Ortom “Drowning Man” | WATCH

Police PRO Jimoh Moshood call Benue Governor Samuel Ortom "Drowning Man" - BellaNaija The Nigeria Police Public Relations Officer Jimoh Moshood has called Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom a “drowning man.” Moshood made the comment while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily. His comment was in reference to Ortom’s call for the resignation of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the killings perpetrated by Fulani Herdsmen. Moshood said Ortom should be the one to resign, as he has been unable to keep the peace in his state. “And that is why we felt you don’t join issues with a drowning man,” Moshood added. Watch his speak below: