LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped 35 people from a university in northwest Zamfara state on Friday, the governor’s spokesperson said, the first major abduction involving students this year. Armed gangs have plagued the northwest in recent years, kidnapping for ransom, looting and destroying communities and murdering civilians. Security forces’ attempts to…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 300-level student of Petroleum and Gas Engineering at the Federal University, Otuoke (FUO) in Bayelsa State, has reportedly died from drug overdose. The 19-year-old deceased student, simply identified as Job Alawari Kei, allegedly took a drug known as Colorado (Colos). According to some students on campus, the drug known as Colos…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state has ordered the reinstatement of four lecturers demoted by the Federal University of Otuoke, located in Otuoke, Ogbia local council area. Recall in 2018 the institution downgraded Professor Steve Nwabuzor from the rank of Professor to Lecturer I;…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two videos are now making the rounds on the protest of students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, which turned violent on Tuesday, allegedly leading to the death of one policeman and four students. According to available reports, the students were protesting over erratic power supply by the Benin Electricity…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zonal Coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ibadan Zone, Dr Ade Adejumo, on Tuesday alleged that the Federal Government was making attempt to make students of federal universities pay a minimum of N350,000 for tuition fee. Adejumo said this while addressing members of the Correspondents Chapel, Ibadan. He said…