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Vice chancellor of the university of Ilorin, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali has disclosed that about 108 fresh students of the citadel of learning have been expelled for dubious means of gaining admission. This was said when the commissioner of police, Kwara state, Mr Sam okaula payed the school a visit. It was also reported by Ambali that the stable academic calendar and culture of excellence in the university is the interest of most candidates to secure admission into the institution. He therefore kicked against these candidates engaging in illegal means to…

A man has been apprehended by police after it was found that he had ejaculated on a woman while waiting in a queue at the bank. Melusi Nyathi, a Zimbabwean national, pleaded guilty on a charge of sexual assault after he exposed himself while standing behind the woman in a bank queue. The suspect is said to have then proceeded to pleasure himself before depositing his semen on her legs. The victim, Melody Mavhura reported that she had felt movement on her legs before turning around to find that she…

The United States Government on Tuesday in Abuja ruled out any financial assistance for Nigeria to conduct its nationwide census whose preparation had been dogged by shortage of funds. Although the population census had been shifted to 2017, feelers from the National Population Commission, indicated that it may not hold because President Muhammadu Buhari had yet to make a proclamation on it. The American government specifically told Nigeria that it would not fund the exercise because “it is not somebody else’s census, it is your census.” The Office Director, Health…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says he does not want an apology from UK Prime Minister David Cameron for describing his country as “fantastically corrupt” – but he does want the repatriation of assets stashed in the UK by corrupt Nigerians. Speaking at an anti-corruption conference in London, he said: “No. I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. What I am demanding is the return of assets. I have already mentioned how Britain really led and how disgraceful one of the Nigerian executives was. He had to dress…

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to address complaints of subscribers who have been inundated with unsolicited telemarketing, short message service (SMS) and voice calls by mobile network operators with a warning that it shall fine any operator found culpable with a fine N5 million and N500,000 daily as long as the contravention persists. It was learnt that the Commission in a ‘New Direction,’ issued to 13 mobile operators by the legal and regulatory department of NCC, plans to sanction any network that refuses to implement it on or before…

The federal government has commenced discussions with the Taraba State Governor, Mr Dickson Ishaku to construct a 3050megawatts (mw) Mambilla Hydropower Plant in the state, Power Minister, Babatunde Fashola has announced. “We have opened discussions with the Governor of Taraba State, Governor Dickson Ishaku, who incidentally was once a minister of state for power,” he said. “The first thing to do is to acquire the land and deal with compensation issues, which the governor has promised to deal with.” He said the project would be “the single largest power plant…