About 5,000 people, 85 per cent of them minors, have been arrested in France following days of protests by high school students over poor conditions in the country’s education system. About 400 schools have also been shut after demonstrations, blockades, clashes with police and attacks on school facilit...

Kidnappers holding 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps members abducted along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in Imo State have reduced their ransom demand from N50m to N5m per victim, bringing the total demand down from N1bn to N100m. The development came as the victims’ parents disclosed that the abdu...

The Ijaw Youth Network (IYN) has commended the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Brutu Otuaro, for deploying 150 Niger Delta youths to universities across the United Kingdom for postgraduate studies. The Ijaw youths body described the move as a demonstration of visiona...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, to investigate the alleged attempt to arrest the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, and sanction any officer found culpable. NANS described the allege...

University of Ibadan (UI), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and Covenant University have emerged as Nigeria’s top three universities in the 2027 AD Scientific Index, with federal institutions accounting for at least eight of the country’s top 10. The ranking, released on October 1, placed Nigeria thi...

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has announced Wednesday, November 4, 2026, as the official start date for the 2026 Batch ‘C’ Stream II Orientation Course. A statement issued by Caroline Embu, Director of Information and Public Relations, indicated that the exercise would be held across all 36 st...