Tijani Faraday

In a bid to check drug abuse on campus, the University of Lagos has provided a drug test kit in its medical centre to examine students suspected to be on hard drugs. Prof. Rahaman Bello, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the institution, confirmed this at a forum with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Bello said that the initiative was necessary because drug abuse was on the increase in the nation’s tertiary institutions. “Drug abuse is a major problem for every institution, particularly, those in the cities. We have gone ahead in the University of Lagos to address it. “With the test kit, anyone who is suspected, his or her urine or blood depending on what we want to do, is collected for test. “The thing about drug is that when you take it, it will be in your blood for a long time, so you cannot say , I did not use it once the test kit detects it. “Before, we start using the test kit, everyone we picked denied using drug since we could not find any evidence,” he said. Accord

Ronaldo has endured a nightmare start to the season, scoring just one La Liga goal for Real Madrid so far. There seems to be genuine concern at the Bernabeu that their talisman is finished, with the 32-year-old approaching the twilight years of his career. Ronaldo and Messi And Spanish website Don Balon claims that Lionel Messi thinks Ronaldo will never rediscover the form that has made him such a formidable opponent of the years. Ronaldo won FIFA’s Player of the Year award last month for his exploits for Los Blancos last term, where he fired them to Spanish and European glory. But the brutal fact is he has looked unworthy of that award based on this season’s performances. He has eight goals across all competitions but Madrid’s domestic plight has coupled with his own. Barcelona already sit eight points clear of Real Madrid at the summit, with Valencia sandwiched in between. Don Balon say Messi also intends to up his game even further to beat Ronaldo to individual a

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has lost its Director, Corps Mobilization, Chief Frank Ekpunobi (FNIM) Frank Ekpunobi This was announced on Tuesday 6th November,  2017 in a statement by the NYSC Acting Director of Press and Public Relations, Adeyemi Adenike (Mrs) The statement reads: “With deep sense of loss, the Director General National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Suleiman Zakari Kazaure, Management and the entire NYSC Family regret to announce the transition of Chief Frank Ekpunobi FNIM, who until his demise was the Director, Corps Mobilization, National Youth Service Corps, National Directorate Headquarters, Abuja.” It added that “Chief Frank Ekpunobi was a great asset to the scheme and will be remembered for his sense of diligence, discipline, commitment and loyalty to the organization. He will be sorely missed.” Ekpunobi, a 1984 graduate of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, joined the corps in 1986 as Inspector 2. He had a

A paltry 510, 000, representing 30 per cent of the 1.7 million candidates who sat for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be offered admission this year. National Universities Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, disclosed this yesterday at a one-day public hearing Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on admission procedures into Nigerian universities. At the hearing was organised by Senate committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, the NUC boss said limited spaces in tertiary institutions had made admission crisis inevitable. “Admission crisis in this country is inevitable. Unless we expand spaces, we shall continue to have admission crisis in this country. Every exam has its own problem. We believe JAMB exam is credible and all of us operating in the system respect the results of JAMB exam,” he said. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on his defence, said there was no conflict between JAMB and universi

Zimbabwean police detained a U.S. citizen and seized her laptop on Friday on suspicion of calling President Robert Mugabe a “Goblin” on Twitter, the first arrest since the creation of a Ministry of Cyber Security last month, her lawyers said. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said in a statement that Martha O‘Donovan, who works for Magamba TV, which describes itself as Zimbabwe’s leading producer of political satire, was picked up during a dawn raid on her Harare home. The lawyers said the police were armed with a search warrant linked to an investigation of a case of “undermining authority of or insulting the President”. Central to their investigation, it said, was a post on O‘Donovan’s Twitter feed referring to a “Goblin” whose wife and step-sons had imported a Rolls Royce, an apparent reference to 93-year-old Mugabe even though he was not named. O‘Donovan’s Twitter account was locked on Friday but a photograph on her home page referred to #ShutdownZimbabwe2016, a series

After being spotted on a number of low-key dates late last month, the pair finally took things public earlier this week. And now, much to the delight of Jelena fans, it's been confirmed that they are indeed boyfriend and girlfriend - again. “Selena and Justin are back together,” an insider told Us Weekly. “Selena and The Weeknd just fizzled and ended amicably - it wasn’t dramatic and it wasn’t about Justin. "But Selena always had feelings for Justin. Her friends want her to be cautious because she has been in such a good place post-surgery.” While a source close to Justin told The Sun Online that it had a lot to do with Justin's pastor and confidante Carl Lentz, who reportedly encouraged them to get back together. They told the publication: "He has been going to church every week and spends all his time with his pastor Carl Lentz - Carl has been encouraging 'reconciliation' between the two - to heal their friendship at least - and Justin basically has