Latest News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 8th October 2019
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target=_blank>SexForGrades: No more ‘cold room experience’ as UNILAG shuts down location
Following the revelation in the ‘S** for Grade’ documentary video released by BBC Africa Eye, the University of Lagos has shut-down the ‘Cold Room’, where lecturers allegedly sexually assaulted students.
The development was announced on Monday by the Principal Assistant Registrar (Communication Unit) of the university, Taiwo Oloyede.
The ‘Cold Room’ was mentioned by a lecturer of the school, Boniface Igbeneghu, in a documentary filmed discretely by the BBC.
In the documentary, Igbeneghu described the room as a place where lecturers meet to “touch students’ breast” at the staff club of the university.
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target=_blank>Saturn overtakes Jupiter to become planet with most moons
Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers.
A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites.
The moons were discovered using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.
Each of the newly discovered objects in orbit around Saturn is about 5km (three miles) in diameter; 17 of them orbit the planet “backwards”.
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target=_blank>Umahi swears in 14 new permanent secretaries
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi on Monday swore in 14 new Permanent Secretaries for the state’s Civil Service. The governor, at a ceremony held at the Government House, Abakaliki urged the appointees to discharge their duties creditably in line with the vision of the state.
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*-with-corpse-of-84-year-old-in-philippines/ target=_blank>Teenagers arrested for having s** with corpse of 84-year-old in Philippines
Two teenagers were arrested after allegedly robbing the grave of an 84-year-old grandmother and having s** with her corpse.
The youngsters, who cannot be identified, were caught after the family of the deceased went to visit her grave the day after she was buried on September 29 in Davao, the Philippines.
They found that the tomb of Isabel Bastatas had been disturbed and her legs were poking out of the white coffin.
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E2%80%95-civil-rights-group/ target=_blank>Boko Haram: Questionable activities of NGOs very worrisome ? Civil Rights group
A civil rights group, Coalition for Civil Rights and Good Governance has raised an alarm over the worrisome activities of foreign non-governmental organizations in the North-East.
The group made this revelation in a press conference on Monday in Abuja to demand the probe of these international NGOs.
In a statement signed by its convener, Princess Ajibola, the coalition said it had taken time to review and evaluate the recent developments in the NorthEast and found these supposed humanitarian groups culpable of supporting the insurgency.
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target=_blank>Aim of the 7th Assembly is to add value to the system – Abia Speaker
Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji MNSE, has said the main objective of the State’s 7th House of Assembly is to improve the general well being of the people and add value to the system through quality legislative output.
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target=_blank>Russian President, Putin celebrates 67th birthday gathering mushrooms
Russian President Vladimir Putin is renowned for posing for high-octane photo opportunities like tiger-tracking or deepwater diving.
But in images released to celebrate his birthday on Monday, the long-term leader was seen enjoying some of Russia’s more peaceful wildlife.
Putin, who has turned 67, spent a mini-break in mountains above the Yenisei River in Siberia at the weekend foraging for wild mushrooms with his defence minister Sergei Shoigu.
In video footage released by the Kremlin, Putin and Shoigu were shown picking and sniffing mushrooms.
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target=_blank>Sanwo-Olu honours hero DPO who saved robbery victim
An act of kindness rendered to a robbery victim by SP Celestina Kalu, Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ogudu Police Station in Lagos was on Monday rewarded by the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who personally invited the kind-hearted police officer to the State House for honor and recognition.
Sanwo-Olu described SP. Celestina Kalu, a Superintendent of Police, as “a humane police officer”, saying her decision to save the life of an orphan, Friday Ajabor, shot by a two-man robbery gang in Ojota, was a “matchless trait of compassion”.
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target=_blank>World Habitat Day: Obaseki advocates innovative solutions to waste mgt
The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has stated that the menacing threat of climate change across the globe, which has resulted in the rise of sea levels and flooding across cities, calls for a more pragmatic approach to tackling challenges in the environment sector.
He said the state government is ready to work with stakeholders in the sector to come up with innovative solutions to redefine environmental governance and proffer solutions to the challenge of waste and water management.
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Ambition of detractors to destabilize Nigeria effectively being frustrated – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said the government has effectively frustrated the ambition of detractors to destabilize the country.
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