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The Lagos State University, LASU is set a launch a new course which will be added to academic programmes, after getting crossing the Rubicon with verification exercise by the National Universities Commission, NUC. This is according to a Thursday communique released by the university. The new course is Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The course would run in the School of Transport, one of the 14 faculties in the university. The verification exercise for the programme took place on Thursday, 14th December 2023.  Representatives of the National Universities Commission (NUC), led by Prof. Aminu Braimah arrived the University main campus, Ojo, Lagos, for the resource verification exercise on Thursday, and were received at the Senate Chamber by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Ibilola Olatunji-Bello, mni, NPOM, who was ably represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Adenike Boyo and other members of the University Management.  The Vice Chancellor expr...

  Paul Durietz has made history with his record-breaking career.  The 76-year-old educator from Gurnee, Illinois, USA, who has been teaching for 53 years, broke the record for the longest career as a social studies teacher on 1 September. paul-durietz-faculty-headshot.jpg Paul has been teaching at Woodland Middle School, District #50 since 1 September 1970. He says his interest in history comes from his parents.  His father, Alfred Durietz, fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, where he received a Purple Heart.  “As a young boy, my father sparked my interest in history by telling me his involvement in the war by going into German bunkers and finding helmets, luger pistols, and uniforms,” said Paul.  My mother, Opal Pembroke Durietz, is related to the Earl of Pembroke of England, which piqued my interest in studying the Middle Ages. At the age of 11, and after many conversations with his father, Paul was certain social studies would be his field ...

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has on Tuesday announced the release of its 2023 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) results, with at 93 schools expected to face sanctions. This was made known in a statement by NECO's registrar Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi. 1,196,985 candidates representing 616,398 Males and 580,587 females registered for the exam. Professor Wushishi said:  I want to "formally declare that the 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal results are hereby released to the public.  By this release, candidates can now access their results on NECO website: neco.gov.ng, using their examination registration numbers. The highlights are as follows: Number of candidates registered for the examination is 1,205,888, representing 621,084 males and 584,804 Females. Number of candidates that sat is 1,196,985, representing 616,398 Males and 580,587 females. Number of candidates with five Credits and above, including English and Mathemati...

  The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots – nanoparticles so small that their size determines their properties. The prize was won by Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov, the committee announced in Stockholm on Wednesday. Quantum dots – electronic crystals – are small enough to operate in the fascinating realm of physics called quantum mechanics, and are used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue. But the committee inadvertently published the names of the three scientists hours before the official announcement. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a copy of an email it said was from the academy, Reuters reported. Johan Aqvist, chair of the Nobel committee for chemistry, told Reuters: “It is a mistake by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Our meeting starts at 0930 CET (0730 GMT) so no decision has been made yet. The winners have not been selec...

  Some armed men suspected to be bandits have invaded the student dormitories of the Federal University in Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State, abducting five female students. According to Daily Trust, the incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday, at the students’ off-campus dormitories behind Mariamoh Ajiri school, close to Wednesday Market in Dutsinma. “Five of them (the students) were kidnapped, they are from Kano and Nasarawa states and two of them are final year students,” one of the students at the university told our reporter on the phone. As of the time of filing this report, there was no information concerning the situation of the victims as their captors had yet to contact their families. Students confirmed that following a similar incident at the Federal University in Gusau in Zamfara State, the FUDMA authorities instructed all their students to remain indoors from 10pm. The head of the Public Relations Unit of the university, Habibu Umar Aminu, confirmed that the i...

  Police authorities in Lagos State have taken Afrobeats star Naira Marley into custody. “Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley has been taken into custody for interrogation and other investigation activities,” Lagos police command spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin said late Tuesday. Naira Marley is expected to assist the police in their investigation into the demise of his former signee Ilerioluwa Aloba better known as MohBad. While the singer has been accused of having a hand in Mohbad’s death, he vowed to clear his name and had before the police’s statement confirmed his arrival in Nigeria to help the probe into his former signee’s demise. “I’d like to share that I’ve just arrived back in Lagos, Nigeria to assist the authorities with the ongoing investigation,” he tweeted on Tuesday. “It’s important I do my part for Imole. I’ll be meeting with the police with hopes for the truth to be uncovered and for justice to prevail.” Tuesday’s move is the latest development following Mohbad’s death. H...

Jerome Boateng will not sign a contract today with Bayern Munich, according to Florian Plettenberg. More talks and negotiations will follow as reported.  However, the bosses are still willing to offer him a short-term contract.  Bosses are aware that there are critics. But they are convinced that the 35 year-old will strengthen the squad. Boateng won’t travel with the team to Copenhagen. In August 2018 there was a secret meeting between Bayern's head coach, Thomas Tuchel and Boateng in Munich. He wanted to bring him to PSG at that time.  The first parts of the medical have already been completed. He is supposed to train with the team at Säbener Straße on Sunday as first, according to Philip Kessler. He is also supposed to train with the first team in the next few days Boateng has kept himself fit and injury-free in the past weeks. It is not yet confirmed whether Boateng will receive a six-month contract or sign until the end of the season.

At least six people were killed and four injured in a fire that broke out early on Sunday morning at a nightclub in Murcia, Spain, the city council said. The injured are two women, aged 22 and 25, and two men, aged 41 and 45, who were all taken to the hospital due to smoke inhalation, the Murcia emergency services website said. “Worried and dismayed by the news coming from there (Murcia). The emergency services continue working,” the President of the Murcia region posted on X, previously known as Twitter. At the time of the incident, emergency services were dispatched, with local firefighters requesting the intervention of the helicopter from the General Directorate of Security and Emergencies, the emergency services said, adding later that ground resources were sufficient to put out the fire. “The General Director of Security and Emergencies, Ricardo Villalba, is on-site coordinating with the Murcia City Council the necessary means to manage this tragedy,” the emergency services said....

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ordered Chicago State University to release the credentials of President Bola Tinubu . In a memorandum opinion and order issued by Nancy Maldonado, the judge, the court overruled Tinubu’s objections to the application filed by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, seeking the release of the president’s record with the university. …more to follow

  A Canadian man who broke his own world record for the fastest time to eat 50 of the world’s hottest chilli pepper went on to eat 85 more. On Tuesday, Guinness World Records announced that Mike Jack of Canada consumed 50 Carolina reapers, the world’s hottest pepper with 1.64m Scoville heat units, in 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds. For comparison, a jalapeño has between 2,500 and 8,000 SHUs. Video posted online by Guinness World Records showed Jack donning a red bandana and gloves as he scarfed down the peppers in front of a blowing fan, at times closing his eyes tightly and breathing heavily. Onlookers could be heard cheering him on and yelling, “Go, Mike!” https://x.com/GWR/status/1706615782761799881?s=20 Once Jack was done eating the 50 peppers – an average of one every eight seconds – he went on to eat 85 more. In total, Jack consumed 135 Carolina reapers. The stunt helped propel him to second place on the League of Fire’s reaper challenger leaderboard, which tracks the highest num...

A 200-level student of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), Katsina State simply identified as Abubakar has been confirmed dead following a clash between students over a relationship with a female student. The tragic incident involving eight students of the university was said to have taken place at Darawa quarters, Dutsinma LGA, Katsina State on Thursday around 1:20 pm. The spokesman for the state police command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, in a statement on Saturday, said the incident was a result of a heated altercation between the students, which escalated, leading to the death of one of the students involved. According to the statement, the command is taking the matter seriously and is conducting a thorough investigation to determine the facts surrounding the incident. Six of the students in connection with the incident have been arrested, it added. The command also disclosed that it was working diligently to gather and analyse all available evidenc...

The University of Lagos says it has not started the allocation of bed spaces to students for the 2023/2024 academic session, contrary to reports in some sections of the media. This is contained in a statement by Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, head of the communication unit of the institution, issued to journalists Saturday in Lagos.U “Information making the rounds in some sections of the media is that the university has commenced allocating bed spaces to students in all the halls of residence for the 2023/2024 academic session. “We therefore hereby wish to bring to the attention of students, parents, and guardians that this is not true as we have yet to commence. “Kindly disregard any information suggesting otherwise. “Please note, for the avoidance of doubt, that allocation of bed spaces only comes up after students ballot for such spaces, and the balloting process has not commenced, nor has the date for the process been announced. “Therefore, contrary to rumours insinuating that payment for...

More than 56,000 Pakistan schools will shut for the rest of the week in a bid to curb a mass outbreak of a contagious eye virus, officials said on Wednesday. Millions of students will stay home from tomorrow after Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, announced blanket closures having recorded 357,000 conjunctivitis cases since the start of the year. The fast-spreading eye infection causes redness, itchiness and discharge from the eyes and contamination can spread through hand contact, as well as coughing and sneezing. “The closure has been announced as a proactive measure to give maximum protection to students against the infection,” Punjab education department spokesman Zulfiqar Ali told AFP There are 127,000,000 residents in eastern Punjab province and 56,000 state schools, as well as thousands of independent schools also subject to the shutdown. “We hope this will break the cycle of the infection in the province,” Ali said. Schools across Pakistan had already been due to shut ...

The National Universities Commission has approved two additional courses for the Centre for Continuous Education, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, Orangesprings News Blog has learnt. The Director, FUOYE CCE , Omolade Adeleke, an associate professor, said that with the addition of Biochemistry and Microbiology, the centre would now offer 24 programmes in the six faculties. Adeleke, in a statement on Wednesday, titled, ‘FUOYE offers admission in 24 courses of its CCE,’ said, “The NUC has approved two additional new courses for the CCE’s Institute of Part-time Studies. The two courses are Microbiology and Biochemistry. “With this new approval, the total number of courses under the part-time programme is now 24 which cuts across six facilities of Agriculture, Arts, Science, Social science, Management and Education. “The application forms for the 2023/2024 academic session have just been made available and applicants are advised to take this opportunity as spaces for admission a...