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A promising student of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State has reportedly taken his own life.   The student committed suicide A student of the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State, has allegedly reportedly committed suicide few days ago. The man who was fondly referred to as HOD, reportedly called his close friends on Wednesday, to tell them that he was going on a journey of no return before drinking Sniper, the infamous lethal pesticide which has become a popular choice for suicidal Nigerians. His friends and classmates have since taken to social media to mourn the loss. A friend who shared the sad news, Chinedu Valentine wrote: Who can tell me this person....... Still in shock, can't believe this😭😭😭💔💔💔 Rip HOD my man, my name sake........no matter what it is HOD will come and meet me lay complains to me about what people are doing or saying to him sometimes b4 he does anything he will come and meet me he always listening to me I d

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on well-meaning Nigerians to caution the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the union to forestall further industrial crisis in the nation’s tertiary education sector. The union’s President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. Recall that the union’s National Executive Committee (NEC) had at the end of its meeting at the Federal University of Technical Akure (FUTA) in Ondo, on Nov. 4, 2018, declared a ‘total, comprehensive and indefinite’ nationwide strike. The strike, was however suspended on Feb. 7, after series of negotiations between the parties and other concerned stakeholders. But Ogunyemi told NAN on Sunday that “Government has not kept faith with our MOA signed on February 7. “What government ought to have done, they do not want to do any more. They have literally gone to sleep. “For instance they had promised before th

Gerard Pique has said he believes Barcelona's Champions League exit at the hands of Liverpool contributed to the club's Copa del Rey final defeat. Barça and Valencia faced off in the final on Saturday, with the Catalans the overwhelming favourites for the win. However, they fell behind to first-half goals from Kevin Gamiero and Rodrigo. Lionel Messi pulled one back but it wasn't enough and Barcelona went on to lose the game 2-1. As reported by Goal, Pique attributed the defeat against Valencia to Barça's 4-0 mauling at Anfield in the Champions League semi-final second leg: "I believe that if we had gotten through at Liverpool, we would have won the treble – that is my feeling. “We would have come here [to the Copa del Rey final] with a different mood, and I’m convinced we would have won the Champions League final. But that is football, you'll find good and bad situations and you have to face them. "It is what it is. We are really, really hurting

Chartered accountant Adewura Bello, 26, who was declared missing two weeks ago, has been found dead. Bello had gone missing on May 15 while on her way home from work. She was said to have been on a motorcycle inside Gowon Estate and might have been carried away by flood occasioned by heavy downpour that evening. In the course of her search, residents of the area had posted on social media that a woman about her size and age was washed away by flood through a manhole shortly after the motorcyclist carrying her was advised not to proceed. Shortly after the warning, the flood slept them but the motorcyclist was said to have survived the mishap and was arrested, handed over to Mosalashi Police Station. The writers had asked the family to check with the police station so that the motorcyclist could identify if the woman he carried that evening was the missing Bello. Following the lead, her family was said to have identified her body Sunday night said to have been found in a cana

Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said Leroy Sane would be Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery's successor if he decided to leave Manchester City for the Bundesliga champions. Sane – who is contracted to City until 2021 – has been linked with a move to Bayern following back-to-back Premier League titles in Manchester. With Bayern greats Robben and Ribery leaving Allianz Arena, Germany international forward Sane has emerged as a target for the Bavarian giants. And Rummenigge talked up a move for Sane, who left boyhood club and Bundesliga side Schalke for City in 2016. "You shouldn't forget that he still has two years contract and that Manchester City don't just sells their players because they need to," Rummenigge said. "This will be difficult. But I think that the player has to be convinced to have the joy for playing here at Bayern. "He would be the successor of Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery which is very interesting. As a player,

Alex Ferguson praised Bayern Munich's footballing structure as the former Manchester United manager lauded the club's links to their past. While United have struggled since Ferguson departed in 2013 – failing to win the Premier League – Bayern continue to dominate the Bundesliga with seven successive titles. United finished sixth in 2018-19 as they missed out on Champions League qualification, while the Red Devils are still searching for a director of football to assist manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. And Ferguson hailed Bayern's hierarchy, which is led by president Uli Hoeness and chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. "They're a great club. It's a club run in the proper foundation of it," Ferguson told MUTV prior to Sunday's Treble Reunion game, which United won 5-0 at Old Trafford. "Former players who run it really, Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, they run the club in the right way and they are always winning the league in Germany. T

NAF helicopters The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has destroyed bandits’ camp and neutralised dozens of bandits in air strikes it conducted at Doumbourou Forest in Zamfara. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted on Saturday. ”The operation was executed yesterday, May 25, pursuant to human intelligence (HUMINT) reports indicating that some locations within the forest were being used by the bandits as hideouts, including a group of huts belonging to a notorious kingpin named`Dangote.’ “Accordingly, following confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), an Alpha Jet aircraft was detailed to attack the bandits’ camp leading to the destruction of their structures and neutralisation of close to two dozen bandits,” he said. Daramola said the NAF, working in consonance with other securit