Twenty-eight years after scholarship awards were last awarded in Oyo State, Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Tuesday presented a total of N100 million to the students of the state origin in tertiary institutions across the country for year 2011/2012. Both the students and the parents who were present at the House of Chiefs, venue of the ceremony, were overwhelmed as the governor presented a symbolic cheque of N10 ...

Three secondary school students writing on-going West African School Certificate Examination, WASCE have been killed and over 200 others injured when the building of the examination hall located at Alpha Academy, a private secondary school in Mararaba, Donga local government area of Taraba State collapsed. The tragedy which occured late on Wednesday was confirmed today by the Chairman of Donga local council ...

Barely a week after Boko Haram islamist militants attacked about four schools in Maiduguri, the troubled Borno state capital where they killed three teachers and wounded four students, some gunmen suspected to be members of the violent sect again today launched another attack against three schools in Biu, located about 185 kilometres south of Maiduguri. iReports-ng.com gathered that the gunmen had defied th ...

Former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, President Goodluck Jonathan and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal are among Nigerian leaders that have paid tributes to the literary icon, Chinua Achebe who died in the U.S thursday night. In his tribute through a statement signed by presidential spokesman, Mr Jonathan said  he received with" immense sadness, news of the passing away ...

After about a week of battling old age sickness in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America, 82 year old Africa’s foremost novelist and author, Prof Chinua Achebe succumbed to the cold hands of death yesternight. His health had deteriorated over a week ago after which he was rushed to the hospital but just as there was hope that the literary icon may survive it, things fell apart ...

Killers of the slain Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Chinwike Asadu will soon be apprehended, says Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar who today vowed that the detectitives will not rest until the killers of the super cop are caught. The IGP gave the assurance when he paid a condolence visit to the family of Asadu at their Enugu residence where he described the late cop as a fine officer and a ...

Nigeria's former Defence Minister, retired Gen Theophilus Danjuma today described the situation in the country as a state of total anarchy and called on the elite to come together quickly to rescue the country. Danjuma who made the declaration after he was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Science at a special convocation ceremony of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna state also w ...

No fewer than nine persons including students and security agents were feared killed today as a peaceful demonstration staged by students of the Nasarawa state university, Keffi, to protest lack of water supply in their campus turned violent. iReports-ng.com gathered that the students have been having problems with supply of water to the school campus due to a breakdown of the public water plant in Akwanga ...

Five students of Government Girls Secondary School, Bama, 78 kilometres southeast Maiduguri, the troubled capital of Borno state have been shot dead and three others wounded by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram islamist sect. A police source told iReports-ng.com that the gunmen stormed the  school at about 2am local time today and headed for the students dormitory. A vigilant security guard i ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole  Sonyinka,  today declared that he is not in doubt that the Nigerian nation is at war.  Soyinka who disclosed this in his keynote address at the public presentation of  Port Harcourt  as the UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, held at  the Presidential  Hotel, in the Rivers state capital, said the raging war is between forces of evil and good. According to him: “I believe quite fr ...