LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has encouraged students not to undermine the educational opportunities at their disposal, but to see them as avenues of empowerment that will enable them to change the world. Obi, who spoke to students of St John’s…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government has confirmed COVID-19 cases in a secondary boarding school on the mainland. According to a report by Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Friday night, a member of the school’s staff tested positive for COVID-19 on November 2. “Contact tracing has revealed that a student and four contacts…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst criticisms by many Nigerians and an opposition leader, the Nigerian government has defended its decision not to allow students in the country take part in this year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The education minister, Adamu Adamu, explained the government’s decision last week. He said the government was concerned…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some students sponsored to Europr for postgraduate studies by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are reportedly stranded abroad because of the alleged lack of funding from the commission. The students this month sent a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, complaining that life for them abroad has been…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Administrator of Bethlehem Girls College, Abule-Ado has been confirmed dead. This was contained in a twitter message by a priest of the Catholic Church, Augustine mario. According to him, Rev. Sr. Henrietta Alokha SSH, Principal of Bethlehem Girls College, Abúlé Ado struggled to rescue her students in the pipeline fire explosion…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Students of Federal Polytechnic Oko in Anambra state woke up to a shocking scene as they found a newborn baby, with her placenta still attached,hanging from the barbed wire of the fence separating their compound from the empty plotof land beside it. Sources said the mother, a student of the school, gave…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A strange and fetish-like object has been spotted at the front of the University of Ibadan gate, scaring people away. According to Tribune Online, a strange but fetish-like object said to have been placed in front of the main entrance gate into the campus of the University of Ibadan (UI), by unknown…