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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Elizabeth Uwandu The Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, has cleared and graduated over 70 per cent of its external students and has called for a makeup examinations for those external students who failed their courses or have missing results issues. A statement by the Acting Head, LASU’s Centre for Information Press and Public Relations, CIPPR, Mr Ademola Adekoya, also said that the makeup exams would hold on July this year. “The Lagos State University has recently processed and graduated over 70% of the External System students, at both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. The University has also embarked on the processing of the results of all other categories of students who may have legitimately completed their course of studies, but are yet to graduate owing to one reason or the other. “The University is therefore calling on all students of the Lagos State University External System who are yet to graduate to link up with the Directorate of the E...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ado Ekiti – Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State said on Monday that he would contest in court his removal from office during his first term tenure. The governor spoke on his monthly public enlightenment programme, “Meet Your Governor in Ado Ekiti. He said since the Supreme Court had ruled that his impeachment was illegal, null and void, he reserved the constitutional right to so contest the removal. According to him, since his tenure had been adjudged by the Supreme Court to have been illegally truncated, he had no option than to approach the same court to seek interpretation of the judgement. The governor said the pertinent question to ask the court was whether by virtue of an earlier judgement in his favour dismissing his removal, he had no right to seek to complete his remaining tenure of seven months. He emphasised that the case as to whether he was entitled to complete his tenure or not must first be determined before there could be another governorship elect...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ali, a jubilant 24-year-old, is finally in the stands himself for an international football match in Iraq — the first to be held in the country in years. “Before, I watched these matches on TV. Today I’m at the stadium,” says Ali, wearing an Air Force Club jersey and a flag bearing the team’s falcon emblem around his neck. The match between the Air Force and Al-Zawraa clubs — part of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup, which the former team won last year — marks the return of international play to football-crazed Iraq for the first time since 2013. “Football is our oxygen — we breath football,” Ali says. The law student came by bus along with other fans to the Kurdish regional capital Arbil, where the match was held. “I would have liked it to be in Baghdad, but that’s how it is. We’re so happy,” Ali says. Arbil and other areas of Iraqi Kurdistan have largely been spared the years of brutal bloodshed that have plagued other parts of Iraq. Iraqis’ pas...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Alhaji Sani Shehu, President, Miners Association of Nigeria, has advised the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development to release part of the N30 billion mining intervention fund for the purchase of mining equipment. Shehu told newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, that part of the fund should be utilised for the purpose as soon as the Federal Government released it. He said that miners did not have the equipment for mining because of the high cost of the machine. “Miners could not afford to purchase even one of the equipment needed for mining. ” We need modern mining equipment; the ministry must take into consideration the need to support miners with necessary equipment to meet up with the mining global best practices,” he said, He urged the ministry to translate and sustain the fund and the 150 million dollars World Bank loan recently approved for the sector, when released. He said for Nigeria to breakthrough and compete with other mining countries, adequate funds and...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 17-year-old secondary school student, Jamiu Ibrahim, who allegedly broke into his school and stole nine ceiling fan regulators valued at N30,000, was on Wednesday released on N50,000 bail on the orders of an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The Magistrate, Mrs F. A. Azeez, who gave the ruling, also granted the accused a surety, who must be gainfully employed with an evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government. Ibrahim, whose address was not provided, is facing a charge of theft. He, however, entered a `not-guilty’ plea. But the Prosecutor, Sgt. Emmanuel Ajayi, said the accused committed the offence on April 19 at Birch Freeman High School, Mushin. According to him, the accused unlawfully entered the school premises and stole nine ceiling fan regulators worth N30,000, property of the Lagos State Ministry of Education. “The accused, a student of the school, was caught with the items when he wanted to escape at the school gate.” The offence con...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, has released a batch of more than 80 of the Chibok high school girls who were abducted in mid-April 2014. According SaharaReporters’ source, the release of the 80 abducted school girls came after further negotiations between the Islamist group and the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The 82 girls who just regained their freedom are currently in Banki town in Borno state awaiting airlift to an unknown destination. The source added that once the girls are secured in a new location they would be debriefed, undergo a psycological and medical test and then be reunited with their families. Also the Britain and the United States on Friday said Boko Haram was preparing to kidnap foreigners in remote northeast Nigeria, which is in the grip of a food crisis caused by the conflict. The Foreign Office in London said it had received reports the Islamist militants were “actively planning” to seize foreign workers in the...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Chikelu came up alive with his usual morning quarrels as animals foraged the bushy surroundings around his house. He girdled himself with a wrapper round his waist, the customary apron of his eastern kinsmen, signifying a man who has truly woken up from his house, the previous night. Chikelu, a middle aged man, intermittently spat out large spittle, as he violently brushed his teeth with a chewing stick, humming his favourite war-like song. Chinedu! Chinedu!! Chikelu bellowed into the open air, as he inspected his home poultry barn. A cock was missing and he could not remember when he asked that it should be slaughtered for the family. Chineduuuu!!! he shouted again. Mama Chinedu, a bulky mother of five, appeared from his back and calmly said, Nnanyi, “I have sent him to the village stream.” Okay! Where is that red coloured cock, my good friend Nnaji gave me last year?, he asked. Mama Chinedu said, “It’s there, look at it,” as she pointed to a giant feathered ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emma Amaize AJAPA — SEVERAL villagers have been reportedly trapped in the bush for four days without food and water, while the waterways have been cordoned off, following the invasion of Ajapa community, the hometown of Ossy Ibori, the notorious sea pirate kingpin, already killed by soldiers in Lagos, at  Arogbo kingdom, Ese-Odo Local Government Area, Ondo State. Vanguard gathered that the soldiers were carrying out a search operation in the community for his boys and mop up of arms. President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Mr Eric Omare, who confirmed the tense situation in Ajapa. told Vanguard that the council had received distress calls from innocent villagers, who were practically under siege, saying: “The people are hemmed inside the bush. There is no food, no water, no shelter and they urgently need help.” Reacting to the invasion, national presidents of the Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPDI, and Foundation for Human Rights, Anti Corruption...