Student to die by hanging for armed robbery!!

A Makurdi High Court on Tuesday sentenced, Jacob Atongo, a 100-level sociology student, Benue State University, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
In his judgment, Justice Adam Onum, held that he was satisfied with the confession of the accused to the charges and therefore, found him guilty.
Onum sentenced the accused to death by hanging, insisting that the sentence prescribed under the law for the offence must be followed.
Atongo conspired with two others and robbed Stephen Akuma, and several others at gun point on June 26, 2012.
The convict and his accomplices robbed Akuma of his Toyota Camry car with registration number Benue AID 39 AA and other victims of valuables, including various sums of money.
He also attacked Judges’ Quarters, Makurdi on July 3, 2012 and robbed no fewer than 15 people, dispossessing them of various items and money at gun point.
The offences contravened the Robbery and Firearms Laws.

Pregnant at 18, best graduating student at 25

Seven years after an unwanted pregnancy forced her to drop out of the University of Ilorin, Aishat Farooq emerges the best graduating student of the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, reports Temitayo Famutimi

When Aishat Farooq gained admission into the University of Ilorin at 15, to study Zoology, little did she know that she was not going to be an alumnus of the institution. That was in 2003.


Despite the fact that she was a high flyer in her first two years in UNILORIN, the now 25-year-old indigene of Ilorin West-Local Government Area of Kwara State got distracted along the line. She played the campus love game and got a shocking result: she got pregnant.

It was in 2006 and in her third year. She was pregnant for a fellow student whom she had been dating. She was disappointed in herself and thought the whole world was crashing on her. Yet, she vowed not to terminate the pregnancy.

Although she wanted to continue her studies in the university, she became disillusioned and dropped out at 18. She sought consolation in trading.

But her father, Mr. Shehu Farooq, who believed that his daughter’s academic prowess should not be wasted, was determined to get her back on the academic track.

Today, Aishat has a different story to tell. On Saturday, she stood tall among her peers at the 5th convocation ceremony of Bells University, Ota, Ogun State, where she emerged the overall best graduating student with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.93.

APC slams FG over ‘plot to break ASUU’

All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Federal Government of employing “cheap and ludicrous strategy” by using market women, religious leaders and students to put pressure on the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its strike.
APC, in a statement in Lagos, yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that the strike, which is now in its fourth month, would have ended by now if the Federal Government had pursued its negotiations with ASUU with half the energy it had been using to rally various groups to protest against the union.
The party said: ‘’This infantile statement by the leader of the apparently misguided market women is the most irresponsible statement that anyone has made on the long-drawn ASUU strike, and it is a shame that the government is the instigator of such nonsense.
‘’While indeed there are millions of jobless Nigerians, is it just any jobless Nigerian that can be a university teacher?
“How does President Goodluck Jonathan, himself a former university teacher, feel about those apparently hired by his administration treating university teachers with so much disrespect?”

UNILORIN Students To Start Receiving Lectures Via iPad

Newly admitted students of the University of Ilorin have expressed happiness over the prospect of owning an I-Pad following the recent announcement to that effect by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali.

Some of the new students, who spoke with Unilorin Bulletin last Friday (October 11, 2013), lauded the University administration for the initiative, noting that the PC tablets would go a long way in facilitating their academic pursuits in the University.

Some of the students were also glad that the University did not join the on-going industrial action embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

One of the students, Shittu Alexander of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, said, "The e-learning system is good because you don't have to carry note books and textbooks about when you can just get what you want on the I-Pad. Everybody is talking about it; it is on the Unilorin FM and the Unilorin Bulletin. Everybody is yearning to see it and I think it is a good idea.

On her part, Vivian Temidayo Moses of the Department of Zoology said, "I feel happy and fulfilled because I had really wanted to attend the University of Ilorin because I hear of the standards and its stable academic calendar. The online registration was quite easy but I was not able to get accommodation. It is nice that the University is introducing the I-Pad for fresh students because when I first heard the news from a friend, I had taken it as a rumour but there is no problem, I am very IT compliant. My aim is to become one of the best students in my class."

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