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The Bill for an Act to Abolish and Prohibit Dichotomy and Discrimination between First Degrees and Higher National Diploma in the same Profession/Field and related matters on Wednesday scaled second reading in the Senate. The bill, which scaled second reading after heated debate at plenary on its relevance, seeks to resolve controversy over wage disparity and gross discrimination against HND holder in public and private sectors of the economy. The Senate President, David Mark, in his remarks, said it would be difficult to legislate on the bill, given that polytechnics were not originally established to be degree awarding institutions. He said rather than canvass for abolition of the dichotomy, polytechnics should be changed to degree awarding institutions. “The problem here is whether we can legislate on this. I think obviously that is not going to work for several reasons that we have all advanced here. “We can’t legislate here and say you must employ an HND instea...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that an experimental Ebola vaccine could be in use by January. Assistant Director of the WHO, Dr. Marie Paule Kieny said in Geneva on Tuesday, October 21 that trials of the vaccine were ongoing and if deemed safe, a West African trial could then be conducted in January. Tens of thousands of doses of the vaccine would reportedly be made available for the trials but it is not clear when the said vaccine would be mass produced so as to be widely available. There is currently no cure or vaccine for the disease but experimental drugs and the blood of survivors has been used to treat the infected. The current Ebola outbreak has killed almost 5000 people mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The way some girls act these days without considering the consequences of their action is a big cause for concern to enlightened minds. Her elder sister was nursing a baby and she thought the best way to help out is to be servicing the woman's husband. The source who sent the photo  said it was the girl that suggested the illicit act to her sister's husband and the 'weak' man obliged. The sister got information that her husband was always taking a young girl to a small hotel in Lagos and she stormed the place, only to catch her own sister in the act with her husband. See full pics: Funny enough, the girl claimed that she was helping her sister so her husband wont go outside. Lol

Suspected ritualists have killed a man and removed his son’s eyes in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The ritualists, 10 in number, were said to have stormed the residence of the deceased, Yakubu Ubandoma, with dangerous weapons, stabbed him on the neck and cut off his hands. They also reportedly removed the eyes of the deceased’s son, Ishaya Yakubu, who later died in the hospital. Not done, the ritualists were also said to have inflicted machete cuts on the head of another person in the house. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, who confirmed the incident, said the command was doing everything possible to arrest the culprits who fled the scene after carrying out the heinous act. He said: “10 suspected ritualists, wielding dangerous weapons, stormed the house of one Yakubu Ubandoma, located about 10 kilometres away from Rimin Zayam Village in Toro council, stabbed him on the neck and cut off his hands. “The suspects also removed the eye...

There was confusion on the premises of Stanbic IBTC in the Ifo area of Ogun State after a banker, Mr. Ogidan Bolaji, was hit with the butt of a gun by a police officer identified as Kayode Ojo, leaving the 25-year-old victim with a deep cut on his face. The matter, which was said to have been reported at the Sango Police Station, was however, said to have been dismissed by the police authorities. Bolaji, an indigene of Ewekoro area of the state, said he wanted justice in the matter. He said he had alighted from his car to make withdrawal from the bank’s ATM when he decided to ease himself. He said, “I was coming from Ifo with a neighbour. But, on our way, I discovered I was cash-strapped, and needed to make a withdrawal. So, we stopped by at Alisaba, in Ado Odo Ota where the bank is located. “We parked outside their premises and on getting to the ATM, the security guard said there was no network. “I was so pressed that I had to urinate beside my ...

In what is being recorded as the first time ever in Gulder Ultimate Search history, a contestant yesterday appealed to the Council of Elders for a second chance after his eviction announcement was made. The evicted contestant, Ikenna Emedike, fondly known as Ikenna E the doctor, made the appeal after the reality show’s anchor, Chidi Mokeme said he has been ‘Evicted’. It would be recalled that Ikenna bore the ‘Stump of Shame’ recently, which ultimately made him ‘deaf and dumb’ for a day following his disobedience of the instruction of the Council of Elders. The punishment was meted out to Ikenna for having ‘Stood on Stump’ after sleeping in a luxury room alongside three other contestants as well as his inability to complete the Octagon Chart task. The Octagon Chart task involved contestants arranging three pieces of a hexagon to form the word, ‘AXE’. Shortly after eight contestants had completed their tasks, Ikenna finished...

Yesterday, I posted a viral story about a father who dumped his children in a boarding school for 8 years. (Read it HERE ) Adepegba’s children-Seun, 14, Titilola 13, and Seyi, 10, had been abandoned since 2007 at Solid Rock Model College in Abule-Iroko, Ogun State and all efforts by the school to reach the dad failed Mr Segun Adepegba, the father of the three children reached out to  Punch  via a telephone interview and explained why he did it .He said.. "In 2007, my wife and I had a misunderstanding and she told me she was leaving me. I was frustrated and the children were little. Seyi, the youngest was just two years while Titilola was just five. There was no way I could give them motherly care. I had no job. As a man, I needed someone to help me take care of them and that was why my sister suggested that we enrol them in a boarding school.”... “I feared that if I suddenly appeared at the school, the proprietor would get the police to arrest ...