#SexForGrades: UNILAG Shuts Down Cold Room Where Randy Lecturers Allegedly Assault Students

The University of Lagos has shut-down the ‘Cold Room’, where lecturers allegedly sexually assault students. The development was announced on Monday in a statement by the Principal Assistant Registrar (Communication Unit) of the university, Taiwo Oloyede. “Management at its emergency meeting of October

Ebonyi Governor’s convoy blocked, riffle carted away

Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki   Ebonyi Governor, David Umahi has banned all forms of wake-keep beyond 10 pm in the state. He said that in any case where such event must pass the stipulated time, the organisers must seek permission from the local government

Court seizes convicted NIMASA acting DG’s N35m, 22-room hotel

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission an interim order to seize the N35 million and a 22-room hotel seized from a convicted former acting director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Calistus Obi.

MUST READ: SHAME! UNILAG lecturers exposed as BBC premieres #SexForGrades documentary

By – Alao Abiodun   BBC Africa Eye’s on Monday released a documentary targeted at lecturers in some West African universities harassing their students for sex in exchange for grades/marks. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as

Iron Gate: Imo reinforces security in Owerri metropolis

  By Steve Uzoechi, Owerri Barely a week after Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State gave the marching order to security agencies in the state, to rid the metropolis of criminal activities, the interagency security apparatus of the state, code-named “Operation Iron Gate”,

4 homeless men beaten to death in U.S.

  By Jason Hanna and Melissa Alonso Four homeless men were killed − and a fifth seriously injured − around Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood when someone struck their heads with metal, apparently while they were sleeping, New York City, United States (U.S.), Police said

Gunmen kidnap 2 clergymen in Benin

    Some unknown gunmen have on Sunday kidnapped two worshippers of a popular church in Benin City, Edo state. The incident happened at Airport road near Ogba Zoological Garden in Benin City. According to the report, the heavily armed gunmen who came

South African returnee arrested for robbery in Lagos

  By Evelyn Usman Two suspected members of a robbery gang, one of them a South African returnee, have been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, for allegedly dispossessing a laptop dealer of three Apple laptops valued at N1.5million at

Death row inmate wins appeal days before execution

  By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Randy Halprin in visitation cell on death row won an appeal days before he was due to be executed as judge’s ‘racism’ came to light For more than 15 years on death row, Randy Halprin filed challenge after challenge

Thunder’ strikes Germany returnee to death inside hotel room

  By Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki A man, whose name was given as Kelechi Nwigbo from Akahufu Ekpaomaka in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was at the weekend was said to have been struck dead by thunder in his hotel room. The