Court orders school to pay N1m damages plus unpaid 5-year gratuity to ex-staff

The National Industrial Court in Abuja has ordered Global International College, Abuja to pay N1million damages to its former employee, Mr. Abel Enokela, for refusing to pay his gratuity for five years.

Justice Oluseun Shogbola, who gave the order in her judgment on Wednesday, said that N907,000 was the outstanding balance to be paid to Enokela as gratuity for five years as the school had paid N81, 500 for one year.

Parents take children out of school in Guinea over Ebola fears - Red Cross

The Red Cross Society in Guinea said parents have taken their children out of school in some parts of Conakry because of fears that the Society was spreading the Ebola virus on campus.

This was happening less than a month after schools reopened, Youssouf Traore, the President of the Red Cross Society of Guinea, said on Friday in Conakry.

Anger and grief as Pakistan buries students massacred at school

Pakistan parents mourning

A shocked Pakistan on Wednesday began burying 132 students killed in a grisly attack on their school by Taliban militants that has heaped pressure on the government to do more to tackle the insurgency.

People across the country lit candles and staged vigils as parents bade final farewells to their children during mass funerals in and around Peshawar, the volatile city on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt where the school was located.

Grief mixed with anger as people looked to the authorities - long accused of not being tough enough on extremists - to stem spiraling violence in a nation which has become a safe haven for al Qaeda-linked groups.

OAU students protest as Jonathan’s visit paralyses school

Students of Obafemi ‎Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Friday expressed their frustration with the ‘unfavourable’ condition they were subjected to over the presence of President Goodluck Jonathan in the institution.

Jonathan was attending a conference with South-West traditional rulers and politicians at the OAU.

It was gathered that public buses were not allowed into the school premises and majority of the students had to trek long distances to their examination hall.

In one of the instances, ‎a Post Graduate Diploma student was seen arguing with security personnel after she was refused entry.

Though she explained that she had exam, the security officials refused her plea.

Students were also seen protesting at the front of Oduduwa Hall where the meeting was holding.

The placard-carrying protesters were heard shouting “thief” on all the politicians that storm the venue.

Breaking News: Back to School, as ASUU calls off strike at last

As exclusively reported by Naija StarNews24 last week, the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has called off its over six-month old strike.