Twitter’s Antics and the Gimmick in Deleting President Buhari’s Tweet

Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet where he said he was going to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”. Buhari said this after receiving security reports from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on the series of recent attacks on its facilities nationwide. President Buhari followed it up in a…

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Sex-for-Grades: Tackling the Menace With Computer-Based Exams

Reports of lecturers offering high grades in exchange for sex saturate the media space. Two lecturers from the University of Lagos were recently sacked two years after they were exposed in a sex-for-grades documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Both lecturers, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Language and Integrated Studies, and…

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N11 Billion for Snacks in Lagos Schools: Timely Intervention or Misplaced Priority?

The Lagos State Government recently said it has earmarked about N11 billion for its ‘Snacks for Thought’ programme. The programme is designed by the state administration to complement the home-grown-school feeding programme of the Federal Government which covers only pupils in primary 1-3. The Snacks for Thought feeding programme is expected to take care of…

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