Delta Polytechnic in Ogwashi Uku has been compelled to cease operations in response to a spate of assaults on students by marauding hoodlums. The institution’s Rector, Prof. Emmanuel Achuenu, announced the closure during the weekend, with academic activities slated to resume Monday, February 26. The Students Union Government (SUG) also issued a directive mandating all […]
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A secondary school teacher, identified as Christian Oruanayeri, has allegedly impregnated a JSS2 pupil (name withheld) of Otovwodo Grammar School, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta. Parents of the girl were said to have raised the alarm by reporting the case to the principal of the school, one Mr Felix Onovughe. The alarm so
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A Delta State-based woman identified simply as Madam Success has been reportedly arrested and remanded in Anambra State for allegedly luring four university female students into prostitution in her state. According to a report, Madam Success was on Friday arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka, where she was denied
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Delta Commissioner, Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Patrick Ukah, has accused politicians of influencing posting of teachers to rural areas. Ukah disclosed this at a meeting with the state House of Assembly Committee on Education in Asaba. He stated that the challenge has had a negative impact on the vision of the ministry to ensure
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Students of Delta State tertiary institutions and their parents have protested over the imposition of compulsory N10,000 fee on them by their schools’ authorities While expressing their displeasure over the imposition on Thursday October 8, 2020, the protesters stated that their institutions had asked students to pay the fee tagged ‘upgrade of COVID-19 facilities’. It
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Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has approved private schools in the state as centres for the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination, organised by the National Examination Council. This was disclosed in a statement by the Education Commissioner, Mr. Patrick Ukah on Saturday August 15, 2020. The Commissioner noted that JSS3 pupils writing
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Delta State High Court, Asaba has sentenced a JAMB official, James Orji Ihejirika to eight-year imprisonment for stealing JAMB E-facility cards and change of course cards worth N12.5 million. Ihejirka, an accountant of JAMB working in their Asaba office, received consignments containing E-facility cards and change of course cards worth N12.5 million from Jamb headquarters
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Teachers in Delta on Thursday embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid salaries, Mr Joe Iyalekhue, the Secretary Delta branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has said. Iyalekhue said in Asaba that a written order was issued to all teachers in the state to embark on an indefinite strike until the government met
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