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  • 1,000 students receive sensitisation on intimate health, wellness

    1,000 students receive sensitisation on intimate health, wellness

    one thousand  students of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), have benefited from a health summit to break the silence on sexual and reproductive health, while promoting intimate wellness and healthcare.

    The summit: “Intimate Wellness: Nurturing Love, Pleasure, and Health”, was organised by HACEY Health Initiative’s SRHR Champions, with FUOYE Student Union Government (FUOYESUG).

    The event was a platform for students to engage in topics often considered sensitive or taboo; relationships, hygiene, consent, safe sex, and self-care.

    Welfare Director of FUOYESUG, Owolabi Aduragbemi, said students would get tips on responsible decision-making and healthy living.

    “We want to build a generation that is confident, informed, and responsible. Many can’t access  information on hygiene and sexual health.

    Through consultations and health screenings, we are changing that narrative,” she said.

    Free screenings, covering blood pressure, HIV, STIs, and Hepatitis B were conducted by licensed medical personnel.

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    Organisers said the initiative was tailored to bridge the gap in access to non-judgmental, youth-friendly healthcare.

    HACEY Programme Officer, Tolulope Adewemimo, who led one of the sessions, highlighted the role of self-care in building self-esteem.

    “Self-care is the foundation of hygiene and confidence. When we take time to nurture ourselves, we strengthen our self-esteem and overall well-being,” she said.

    Interactive workshops and expert-led discussions encouraged students to challenge common myths surrounding sexual health.

    Many participants shared how the programme helped them understand the links between accurate information, personal responsibility, and respectful relationships.

    A key theme throughout the summit was the impact of cultural and social misconceptions. Medical sociologists at the event noted that many young people in rural and urban settings continue to receive inaccurate information about sex and reproductive health, exposing them to unnecessary risks.

    Participants also received educational materials and were invited to join a peer-led network to continue conversations and drive change beyond the summit.

    Organisers say the event is part of a broader campaign to strengthen youth health programming through inclusive, student-focused initiatives.

    They expressed optimism that with sustained efforts, more campuses across the country can adopt similar models to promote a healthier, better-informed generation.

    “This summit gave us a voice,” said one attendee. “We now know it’s okay to ask questions and take our health seriously.”

  • Police arraign student for being in possession of Indian hemp

    The police on Tuesday arraigned a 23-year-old student of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ishola Oluwaferanmi, in an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for being in possession of five wraps of Indian hemp.

    Oluwaferanmi, whose address was not given, is charged with possession of Indian hemp.

    The Police prosecutor, Insp Johnson Okunade, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on April 17 in Oye -Ekiti.

    Okunade alleged that the defendant was caught in possession of five wraps of Indian hemp by the school security.

    He said that the defendant was handed over to the police by the university management.

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    The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of  Section 5 of the India Hemp Act Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.

    Okunade urged the court to adjourn the case to enable him study the case file and present his witnesses.

    After the charge was read to him, the defendant pleaded not guilty.

    Defece Counsel, Mr Olatunde Olayemi, prayed the court to admit his client bail.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mr Adesoji Adegboye, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N200,000 with one credible surety in like sum.

    Adegboye adjourned the case until May 24 for hearing.

    NAN

     

  • Ogoja needs a federal university

    Sir: Ogoja is the only town in south-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria that is 324km away from it state capital. So any student from Ogoja desiring to attend a federal university in Cross River State must move above 300km to access university education. The closest federal university, Wukari is 192km from Ogoja. Nsukka is 256km from Ogoja and if a prospective student desires Univesity of agriculture in Makurdi, then a journey of 209km is activated.

    Ogoja was promised a university as early as 1975. A minor disagreement between the host communities led to the powers-that-be to move it to Calabar to be replaced with a secondary school – Federal Science College Ogoja.

    Ogoja has been greatly marginalized in terms of federal tertiary education. The highest around Ogoja is a College of Education, Obudu built in 1980.

    It is a legitimate demand. States with special needs are given attention and awarded a federal university. Delta State has a maritime university, a petroleum resources university and now an ICT university all powered by the federal government. Benue State with an existing federal university in Makurdi is now at the verge of getting a second at Oturkpo. Anambra is at the verge of getting a second at Nsugbe.

    It is the only province that is yet to metamorphosed into a state in the 21st century Nigeria. If the 2014 confab report had sailed through, Ogoja is one state that would have been created. Now in its absence, we demand a federal university.

    It is the most peaceful senatorial district in Nigeria with no record violent activities since the advent of democracy in 1999. We do not need violence before our demands will be met.

    Ogoja is the headquarter of the northern senatorial district and has a population of over 400,000 people. We have free land to offer the federal government for it to take off.

    It is time for all sons and daughters of Ogoja to wake up and demand that Ogoja be given a federal university. It is not late to take our destiny in our hands.

    Our collective resolve got Hon Jarigbe Agom representing Ogoja/Yala federal constituency in the House of Representatives Abuja to pick up the fight. The bill for the establishment of the Federal University of Technology Ogoja was sponsored by him and it has passed the second reading receiving overwhelming support from other lawmakers who believe Ogoja actually deserves a federal university.

     

    • Mike Udam, Ogoja.

  • Gov. Bagudu approves N400m for indigenous students in tertiary institutions

    Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has approved over N400 million for the payment of 2017/2018 registration fees for indigenous students of the state in various tertiary institutions across the country.

    The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Alhaji Abubakar Dakingari, made this known on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi.

    Dakingari said that about N111 million would be spent for students in Federal University, Birnin Kebbi for the 2017/2018 session.

    He added that N149 million would also be used for the payment of fees for students in Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, for the  2017/2018 academic year.

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    Dakingari said that approval of N107 million was also given for the payment of registration fees for indigenes of the state in Adamu Augie College of Education, Argungu for the same session.

    “While N2.7 million is for our students at the Federal College of Technical Education, Gusau; another N2.5 million will be paid as fees for students in Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State.

    “A similar gesture of N2.5 million has been offered to students of the state’s origin in College of Education, Minna, Niger State,’’ the governor’s spokesman added.

    He said that N25.7 million would be for those in College of Basic and Advanced Studies, Yauri and N7 million for students in Federal College of Education, Kontagora in Niger.

    According to him, the governor also approved N600, 694 for students in Federal College of Education Zaria, Kaduna State.

  • ‘Police beat my father to death inside station’

    An 18 year old student of Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, Ebenezer Israel Inya  have accused the Police Officers working at the Kpirikpiri Police Station, Abakaliki Ebonyi Stage capital of beating his father, Israel Inya Aluu to death right inside the Police station.

    The incident happened on Wednesday this week after the father, Ebenezer and some of his friends were arrested inside the compound of the Assemblies of God Church which is near their house.

    Ebenezer, who lives in 4 Nri street, and his friends were playing football on the Street road when the ball flew into the compound of the Assemblies of God Church which is located on No 2 Nri street.

    The Church officials then allegedly got a female police officer, who is also a member of the church, to arrest the boys and the father for  disturbing Church activities by playing football around the premises.

    Narrating what happened to The Nation, Ebenezer a 200 level student of Criminolog, said they had earlier quarreled with the gate man of the Church who seized their football when it fell into the Church premises and later were attacked by some members of the Church.

    “I and these colleagues here were playing football when the ball entered into Assemblies of God premises in our side. We met the gate man and pleaded with him to release the ball to us but he refused and started insulting us. We then engaged him in quarrel”

    “The pastor’s daughter came in and asked us what was happening and we told her that our ball entered into their premesis and that she should help us to get it back”.

    “She told us to go let her talk to the man so that he can release the ball and then she will call us later to collect the ball.  After sometimes, we returned to the church and met the gateman to release the ball to us and he started exchanging words with us. The senior pastor then came out and started insulting us, I exchanged words with him. The pastor’s children and some church members there started attacking us. They later asked us to go to our  house so that the crisis will be resolved, we went back to our house”.

    He said some members of a para- Millitary outfit of the Church later lured him into the church premises where a female police officer of the command who was on maternity leave arrested them.

    “I was about taking my bath to come to our shop at Police Officers Wibee Association (POWA) at the police headquarters when two security officials from Royal Ranger security firm came to me and said I should follow them to go and apologize to the pastor so that peace will reign. I insisted that I will not go anywhere, they threatened to call the military if I don’t resolve it this way”.

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    “I followed them to the church. A member of the church who is a policewoman and who is on maternity leave and was wearing mufti came with a handcuff to handcuff us and we asked the offence we committed and insisted she must tell us our offence. She refused to give us the reasons and locked the gate. They started beating us inside the church. My dad who was in our house heard it and came to the church. He said they should stop beating us again and that we should all go to the police to iron things out”.

    “They insisted that they were not going to the police but must do everything inside the church. When they saw that the pressure was high, the policewoman took us out of the gate and started beating us. We got to the station with my dad and they locked us(I and my brother) in the counter and started beating me.  Then they told my dad to follow them to a room, my dad follow them together with the Assemblies of God people. The next thing I saw was when they came and released us and asked us to come and carry our father’s body”.

    When contacted, Police spokesman in the state, ASP Loveth Odah confirmed the incident.

    Odah said “On 29th of August 2018, the DPO of Kpirikpiri division, said that there was a call from the Assemblies of God Church at Nri Street, Kpirikpiri that children were playing football and they played
    into the church premises.

    “So the security officer whose name I do not know seized the ball because he said that it was a regular thing which he said disturbed the occupants during the church hour.

    “So, on Friday unfortunately the ball entered there and the security officers seized it. According to them, children started throwing stones on top of the zinc of the church. Along the line, the security
    officer decided to open the door to see who was doing it.

    “He saw the two children who were doing it. He accosted them into the premises and now called the policewoman who have handled their matter before.

    “The policewoman was actually on maternity leave. She was passing through the church to go and fill her gas cylinder, according to her; she parked her bike and entered inside to see what was happening.

    “The security man opened the door for her and the access paved a way for their father to enter with her into the church premises. They were all judging the as children’s play; ‘let allow it to go like that.’ That’s according to the policewoman.

    “But the father to the children insisted that since he has accosted the children inside, by so doing, illegally detaining them, so police must be aware of it. The policewoman assisted them to the police
    station and went her own way because she was not on official duty”.

    When contacted, Pastor in charge of the church, Rev Joseph Nwakpakpa refused to comment to our reporter. He rather asked the reporter to stop disturbing him.

  • NUC approves medicine, others for FUD

    The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given the Federal University, Dutse (FUD) in Jigawa State approval to run five academic programmes in the College of Medical and Health Sciences beginning from the 2017/2018 academic session.

    This was contained in a statement  by the university’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Malam Abdullahi Yahaya Bello, which also listed six other programmes that secured full accreditation after the May/June accreditation exercise.

    The programmes under the Collage of Medical and Health Science are: “Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Medicine, (MBBS); Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Biology); Bachelor of Science, (B.Sc. Human Anatomy); Bachelor of Science, (B.Sc. Human Physiology) and Bachelor of Science, (B.Sc. Biochemistry)”.

    According to the statement, the approval was contained in a letter dated September 15, 2017 to the Vice Chancellor, Prof Fatima Batul Mukhtar, and signed by the Director of Academic Planning, Dr. Gidado Bello Kumo, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed.

    The commission had in May raised a panel of experts to undertake resource verification of the proposed academic programmes with a view to assessing the human and material resources available for their establishment.

    The letter reads in part: “I am directed to inform you that the Executive Secretary has approved the establishment of the full mode of academic programmes to be run in the Main Campus of the University, effective from 2017/2018 academic sessions.

    “I am to add that the approval does not cover part-time mode of delivery of programmes, as all programmes must bear only the approved titles and nomenclatures and any change will require the re-approval of the Commission.”

    The other programmes that secured full accreditation were: English, Biology, Physics, Political Science, Zoology, Botany and Chemistry.  Biotechnology, however, was granted interim accreditation, while Computer Science was denied.

  • Admissions: Dutse Varsity approves 160 as cut-off

    Admissions: Dutse Varsity approves 160 as cut-off

    The Federal University, Dutse in Jigawa, has approved 160 cut-off point as its benchmark for the 2017/2018 admissions against the 120 set by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for universities in the country.

    The university’s Registrar, Malam Bukar Usman, announced this in a statement issued in Dutse on Saturday.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that JAMB had fixed 100 for candidates seeking admissions into polytechnics.

    “The Management has approved 160 as the minimum benchmark for the 2017/2018 admission in the university,” he said.

    He also announced the institution’s cut-off points for programmes in the three Faculties of Agriculture, Arts/Social Sciences and Faculty of Sciences.

    Agriculture 180, Fisheries and Aquaculture 160 and Forestry and Wildlife Management also 160.

    In the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Economics is 180, English 180, Criminology 195 and Biotechnology 180.

    Also in the Faculty of Sciences, cut-off point for Chemistry is 180, Computer 180, Environment 180, Mathematics 170, while Microbiology and is 180 respectively.

  • Police arrest 31 kidnappers, cultists, armed robbers in Bayelsa

    Police arrest 31 kidnappers, cultists, armed robbers in Bayelsa

    …Recover, arms, stolen valuables

     

    No fewer than 31 suspected kidnappers, cultists and armed robbers have been arrested by the police in Bayelsa State following raids of criminal hideouts and creeks in the state.

    Arms, ammunition and stolen items including nine locally-made pistols were recovered from the hoodlums after three-week operation.

    Among the suspects was a 26-year-old Temikiri Moni held for the abduction of an accountant’s wife, Joy Epidi, on July 24 along Imiringi Road, Yenagoa.

    Parading the suspects in Yenagoa, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Amba Asuquo, said the gang that abducted Joy called her husband and demanded ransom.

    “Consequently, police operatives swung into action and arrested one Temikri Moni, 26, at about 22:45hrs at his residence in Jimro Street, Biogbolo, Yenagoa

    “The suspect had earlier called one Bogbara Komoko,  a businessman, threatening him to part with his N5million or his family members will be kidnapped. The victim has been released unconditionally and the suspect confessed to making such calls and demands. Efforts are on to arrest his cohorts”, he said.

    Amba said the remans of one Luke Inedite, 30, who was declared missing at Agura community was recovered by the police in a pond at the area.

    He said though investigations into the circumstances that led to the killing of Luke were ongoing, a gang of cultists arrested by the police confessed to the murder.

    He said members of the gang were among the cultists terrorising a community secondary school in Azikoro division of the police.

    Amba said in an undercover operation conducted by plain clothe policemen, one James Loveday, an undergraduate of the Federal University, Otuoke and leader of the gang, was arrested with locally-made revolver rifle.

    He said: “The interesting thing about this arrest was that on interrogation, the suspect led to the arrest of his gang members one Suoyo Francis, male 20yrs, a member of Greenland cult group and  one Bimobere Francis, aka Big Smoke, 21”.

    He named others as Sunday Robinson,18; Emmanuel, 20, and Imimotimi Wilcot, 27; Gift Koma, 23, and Endurance Paul, said to be the supplier of hard drugs such as indian hemp and other illicit substances to the gang.

    Amba said a Nissan Coaster bus, stolen by criminals, with registration number A 06-05BY belonging to the Ministry of Education was recovered by the police

    He said the bus was snatched at gunpoint with a wooden gun by one Ebi- Boy Eperi in Yenagoa.

    He said the feat was made possible through the 45 vehicles recently acquired by Governor Seriake Dickson for the state’s security outfit, Operation Doo-Akpo; cooperation by members of the public and activities of vigilante groups.

  • Faculty elects leaders

    A 300-Level Economics student, Joseph Augustine, has been elected president of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL) in Kogi State. The keenly-contested election was held at the school’s main campus in Adankolo.

    Joseph garnered 491 votes to defeat his main challenger, Dominic Odogwu, of the Department of Political Science, who scored 408 votes.

    Joseph described his victory as divine, appreciating his colleagues for their confidence in him. He hailed students for their maturity, assuring that he would not disappoint them

    The president-elect also praised his opponent for displaying maturity being the first person to congratulate him. Joseph described Dominic as “an exemplary individual” with good character.

    He said: “I am committed to my vision of making the lives of students better, and because of my belief that everyone has something to offer, I will do my best to carry all students along on this journey.”

    Dominic thanked his supporters for standing by him in defeat. He urged them to support Joseph in moving the association forward.

  • FUOYE students protest, say we receive lectures under trees

    FUOYE students protest, say we receive lectures under trees

    The students of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ikole campus on Monday protested inadequate infrastructure, poor power supply and other basic amenities.

    The protesting students blocked the Ikole-Omuo Highway for several hours accusing the management.

    They demanded that the institution’s management shared infrastructural development equally between them and their colleagues in Oye-Ekiti campus.

    The angry students said facilities at Ikole campus was so inadequate to the extent that some of them receive lectures under trees owing to lack of lecture rooms.

    Other problems at the campus, according to them, include irregular power supply, lack of functional bursary department, non-availability of drugs at the medical centre, lack of functional Engineering Workshop, water tanker for the agric faculty and buses for shuttle to
    the main campus.

    Responding, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, promised that the students’ complaints would be looked into.

    Soremekun said: “I can promise you that these issue most especially those with long term, a Committee will be set up to look into finding lasting solutions.

    “I can assure you that Ikole campus would not be sidelined, though my Office is in Oye-Ekiti, I will also make presence here at least once a month.”