LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An undergraduate of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has duped his colleague, professors, lecturers of six billion naira in a forex scam gone wrong. Mr. Nwabuba Victor Ifeanyi of Vickson enterprise, runs a forex investment scheme that attracts investors to receive 20% of their money back after 2-weeks of investing….
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor, John Abiodun, and a university lecturer, Dr Lanre Olu-Adeyemi, have appeared before the Ondo State High Court, Akure, for allegedly spreading fake news about the founder of a church, the Promised Land Prophetic Ministry, Akure, Pastor Gbenga Akinbiyi. Abiodun and Olu-Adeyemi were said to be members of the church before…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Ibim Semenitari, has said she was sexually harassed by a male lecturer while she was doing her undergraduate programme in a Nigerian university. Mrs Semenitari’s revelation followed the trending #SexForGrades conversation among Nigerians, prompted by a BBC undercover investigative report…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kiki Mordi, the BBC journalist who went undercover to expose university lecturers guilty of sex for grades, has started receiving death threats from people angry about the exposé. Kiki, who said she was herself a victim of sexual harassment in the university and didn’t graduate, said on Monday that the project was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The University of Lagos has suspended its lecturer who was involved in a sex-for-marks scandal. The lecturer was exposed in a video by BBC Africa where an undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi, disguised as a 17-year-old admission seeker. The vice-chancellor of the institution, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES in an…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The University of Ibadan community has been thrown into mourning session following the sudden death of one of its staff. The lecturer, Dr O. A. Subair, of the Department of Mathematics, reportedly committed suicide. The university don set himself on fire on Monday afternoon in his senior staff quarters located at Phillipson…
LAGOS JANUARY 27T (NEWSRANGRS)-Optimism is being sounded by the Federal Government about the possibility of striking lecturers, under the auspices of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), returning to classroom, this week. The lecturers have been on strike for over two months now, following the inability to reach a deal on their demands with the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday staged a walkout from a meeting with a federal government delegation. The government delegation was led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige. Despite the walkout, Mr Ngige expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off. The…