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Police on Wednesday accused 17 students of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, of an attempt to rob a branch of Wema Bank in the institution. At the hearing on Wednesday, the police prosecutor, Mr. Samuel Osobu, informed the court of the intention to file a probable cause of action against the students, other than the six-count earlier slammed on them on Tuesday. This was after the court had earlier admitted the students to N300,000 bail each and one surety in like sum, who must be either a civil or public servant on the previous charge. The prosecutor said he had forwarded the case file to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. Osobu alleged that the students on February 7 unlawfully committed the offence of arson by burning houses belonging to ABUAD University security staff and burglary of a boutique belonging to the wife of the ABUAD founder. He added that the students also attempted to rob the branch of Wema Bank situated on the campus. According...

Medical students in 100 level at the University of Lagos and their parents on Wednesday disrupted academic and business activities in the institution. The protesters, who shut the university’s main gate, accused the university authorities of denying them promotion to 200-level. According to them, the authorities introduced some new academic rules that have denied many of them from proceeding to the university’s College of Medicine, Idi-Araba to continue their programme. The protesters also argued that the new scheme was to allow the authorities to admit diploma students to the faculty. The protesters alleged that the diploma students paid handsomely for the offer. However the authorities said the professional bodies regulating the study of medical programmes in the country, introduced a fresh index system to regulate the quota allocated to individual university. The UNILAG Head, Information Unit, Mr. Toyin Adebule, made this known in a statement on Wednesday night. Acc...

Pregnant women who take paracetamol are more likely to have babies who develop asthma, suggests a new study. Researchers showed that asthma can be linked to pregnant women and babies being exposed to paracetamol by testing the association was not simply due to the complaint the woman is taking the over the counter pill. Co-author Doctor Maria Magnus, of Bristol University, said: “Uncovering potential adverse effects is of public health importance, as paracetamol is the most commonly used painkiller among pregnant women and infants .” Researchers in Norway and Bristol compared associations between several conditions during pregnancy - with and without the use of paracetamol - and asthma developing in the 114,500 children in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. They examined asthma outcomes at ages three and seven and evaluated the likelihood of the association being as a result of the three most common triggers for paracetamol use in pregnancy: pain, fever, and fl...

The extraordinary nuns who grow and sell marijuana for a living have come under fire from the law as city officials are bent on closing them down. The two nuns from California - Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, who live in a three-bed 'abbey' in Merced produce cannabis from the adjoining garage. They use the cannabinoids found in the plant to create a variety of products used to treat pain which are now selling out online. According to Dailymail, their homemade items will not get their customers high, but they are still facing closure because of new laws preventing residents from growing the drug on their properties. The Sisters started the business six months ago and their treatments have proved popular with sell-out products on their Etsy page. The pair produces salves, tonics and tinctures from the plants for pain management. They have low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component that causes the high. However, the abbey faces closure following new ...

Four reverend sisters pictured above died in a fatal motor accident after their car collided with a truck of a bottling company along the Ikom-Ogoja road, Cross River. A facebook user who witnessed the gory accident shared the photos online.

A bizarre news of death involving two officials of EDC has happened in an undisclosed location and is currently trending on online media. According to reports, the first man climbed the pole to fix the power and got electrocuted. And his colleague climbed up to see if he could bring the dead man down, but he was also electrocuted.   Source: tori .ng

A 19-year-old housemaid in Zimbabwe, Lindiwe Kahila, has been arrested and charged to court for allegedly forcing her employer's 14-year-old son to have s*x with her, reports MyZimbabwe. The duo were caught by the boy's older sibling having s*x in their parent's bedroom, with the boy claiming Kahila raped him by force. The prosecutor, Takunda Ndovorwi, said the alleged crime was committed on January 13, at the boy’s parents’ homestead where Kahila was employed. “The accused invited the 14-year-old boy to sleep on the same blankets with her and covered him with a blanket. "Kahila removed her clothes and became completely n*ked before she went on to unzip the complainant’s trousers. Kahila ordered the Form One boy to lie on top of her and then had s*x with him. She grabbed the complainant’s privates and inserted his manhood into her privates. "She ordered the boy to make some movements while on top of her and as a result, she had s*xual intercourse with ...