Education

The management of Premier Academy, Lugbe Abuja, says the school is cooperating with police investigations into the sudden death of a student of the school, Keren Akpagher. The 14 year old SS1 student reportedly died on Tuesday, June 22nd, from hyperglycemia triggered by sepsis resulting from infection caused by a condom found in her. Keren’s mother, Mrs. Akpagher had demanded justice for her child, who she alleged was sexually abused before she was withdrawn from the school on June 19th for treatment after she complained of redness of the eye. According to reports, Mrs. Akpagher said she immediately challenged the…

Mother Alleges 14-Year-Old Daughter Died After Condom Was Found In Her Private Part Mrs Vihimga Akpagher, mother of 14-year-old pupil of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, has alleged that her daughter died after a condom was found in her private parts. It was gathered that the SS1 pupil, Karen-Happuch Akpagher, was believed to have been sexually abused before she was withdrawn from the school by her mother on June 19, 2021, for treatment. Karen-Happuch, however, died two days later in a hospital in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja. Vihimga told PUNCH that she received a frantic call from her daughter…

A 400-level optometry student of Abia State University, Uturu, Francis Chibuike has died after jumping off a three-storey building. It was learnt that Chibuike was high on drugs when he jumped from his lodge, Favour Lodge located off the campus on Saturday evening as he was unable to contain the effect of the hard drug known as Colorado which he allegedly took. According to some students, his friends reportedly locked him in the room and went in search of garri to restore him back to consciousness, but the deceased went through the balcony and jumped down from the building with…

EBONYI State Governor, David Umahi, on Tuesday said academic activities would take off in September 2021 at the new state-owned Medical University, Uburu, in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state. Umahi, who stated this during the flag-off of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund and State Health Insurance Scheme in Abakaliki on Tuesday, pointed out that the university remained the best in the country. According to PUNCH, the governor said, “medical students will be paying N5m, while non-medical students, would be paying between N2m and N3m for tuition and other fees in the university.” He said, “Our resolve…

In addition to his provison of 3-seater desks to primary schools,  Chief Whip of the Senate,  Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has provided numerous seats to the primary school in Eziama Nneato Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State , Recall that after the Abia North Senator made a delivery of 80 three-seater writing desks to pupils of Ezi Igbere community School, Igbere in Bende L.G.A, the Senator made a similar gesture to Okoko Item Central Primary School in Bende as part of efforts to effectively represent his constituency. The visibly happy pupils and their teachers could not hide their feelings…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of candidates who sat in more than 720 CBT centres for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted between June 19 and June 22. Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB Spokesperson made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Friday. Benjamin advised each concerned candidate to check his/her result by sending UTMERESULT to 55019 through the GSM number used by each candidate to obtain profile code and UTME registration with the board. He said that their results would be relayed to them immediately after following the…

Buhari Approves 5 New Varsities, With N5b Take-Off Grant President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of five new universities specialised in technology and health to close the huge gap in the doctor-patient ratio as well as in medical research and production of pharmaceutical products. He also approved a take-off grant of N4 billion each for the Universities of Technology and N5 billion each for the Universities of Health Science from the funding resources of TETFund to ensure early take-off of the institutions. CAS reduces Samson Siasia’s life ban to 5 years Mercy Aigbe, ex-husband fight dirty on Instagram The…

The Niger State Universal Basic Education Board, NSUBEB, has disclosed that more than 90 per cent of pupils in exit classes in public schools can neither read nor write. Dr Isah Adamu, Chairman of NSUBEB, disclosed this during a two-day roundtable discussion on revamping basic education in Niger State in Minna on Thursday. He explained that the roundtable discussion brought together critical stakeholders in the education sector to access the challenges and performance of basic education in the state. Mr Adamu explained that the event became necessary after the board mobilised resources to register 250 public primary school exit pupils…