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All YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT APRIL 1$T

April Fools' Day An April Fools' Day hoax marking the construction of the  Copenhagen Metro  in 2001 Also called All Fools' Day Type Cultural, Western Significance Practical Jokes, Hoaxes Observances Comedy Date April 1 Next time 1 April 2018 Frequency Annual April Fools' Day  (sometimes called  All Fools' Day ) is celebrated every year on April 1 by playing  practical jokes  and spreading  hoaxes . The jokes and their victims are called  April fools . People playing April Fool jokes expose their prank by shouting  April Fool . Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Although popular since the 19th century, the day is not a  public holiday in any country. Geoffrey Chaucer 's  The Canterbury Tales (1392) contains the first recorded association between April 1 and foolishness.

Breaking News:FUTO Rusticates 500 Students including Rochas Ogbonna for various offences..

About 500 students of the Federal University of Technology Owerri have been rusticated by the school management due to their involvement in offences against the rules and regulations of the school. This was disclosed by the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Monitoring Unit FUTO ACTU Chairman, Professor N. Okeudo. According to him, the school has shown zero tolerance for corrupt practices by rusticating the students, banning of sale of handouts and punishing lecturers indicted for intimate harassment of students. In his words, “ACTU had been involved in provision of a Complaint Box for the school community and publication of anti- corruption articles to sensitise school community against corruption. Wverve shown zero tolerance for corruption by working closely with the school management to achieve it. Our actions had led to the rustication of over 500 students for various offences. We are working against illegal sales of text books and handouts. We are investigating ...

Untimely death of imsu fresh graduate of political science

Unidentified gunmen suspected to be cultists have shot and killed a fresh graduate of political Science of the Imo State University, Owerri, early hours of today, Thursday 30th March, 2017. The victim, identified as Ndubueze Emeka Junior popularly called Jboy by friends who hails from Amaigbo in Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State, was said to have been shot at a close range at Aladinma Area of the university campus, popularly referred to as IMSU back gate when he went to drop off a lady friend of his at around 8am within a Hostel referred to as Davita. Eyewitness account says the victim was driving to drop off his lady friend at Aladinma students residential area through Okwuratta axis, when some suspected cultists accosted him and shot him four times, leaving him on the pool of his blood inside his car before zooming off the scene. However, minutes after the sad incident that left the victim dead, men of the Imo State Police formation arrived to secure the premises. They...

JAMB Candidates Cry Out Over Inability To Get ePINS For 2017 UTME Registration

  Some of the prospective candidates for the 2017 UTME have called on the Board to address the issue of poor internet services and other technical issues that has made the vending of the ePIN difficult in many of the banks and registration centres. According to the information gathered, candidates in Keffi, Akwanga and Lafia Local Government Areas of Nasarawa State have been finding it difficult to get their ePINs since the commencement of the registration. They therefore called on JAMB to resolve all pending issues to enable them register before the given deadline.  Reacting, to this, the Zonal Acting Coordinator of JAMB in Lafia, Mr Moses Akobu, urged the prospective candidates to be patient, adding that the management of JAMB is on top of the situation to rectify the problem.  “The new e-vending system is error free, so the hitches in which candidates are facing is temporary, just within a few hours or days, the problem will be over,” he assured.  Be rebroadca...

FG Working On A Policy To Expel University Students With CGPA Of 0.5

Report has it that the Federal Government is proposing a new policy that will enable Vice Chancellors of various institutions to expel students with CGPA as low as 0.5. This was revealed by the Minister of State for Education, Professor Anthony Onwuka at the 31st convocation ceremony of the University of Portharcourt, (UNIPORT). According to him, “We must stop to continue housing adventurers, who have no business remaining in the universities beyond the time specified for their studies in the universities.  In that wise, it is being proposed that at the end of this academic year, any student with less than 0.5 CGPA should cease to be a student of the university and should be shown the way out. The universities must continue to have people who are serious in what they have come to do. If you have less than 0.5 in your CGPA, you are out. You are out for good so that the space will be left for those who have come to do serious business"he said  Greatest nigerian students I wi...

CRIME NEWS: A 61 YEAR-OLD LANDLORD CAUGHT WITH HUMAN HEADS

LAGOS—A 61-year-old landlord,  Toafeek Hassan  , was, yesterday, arrested with fresh human head and other body parts of a lady he was alleged to have murdered, at Ikoga community in Badagry area of Lagos, Sunday. Vanguard gathered that the deceased, a yet-to-be identified lady, approached Hassan, a cleric, for spiritual cleansing in Sango Otta, due to some challenges she was facing. Arrested Vanguard gathered that he was on his way to hand over the needed body parts to a cleric yesterday, when he was accosted by curious people, as the bag was dripping blood. When they forcefully took the bag from him, a female head, two wrists and a heart spilled out. They raised alarm, which alerted other residents. But for the prompt intervention of policemen from Area ‘K’ Command, Badagry, Hassan would have been lynched by a mob, who tied his hands, legs and was dragging him on the ground. Confession On interrogation before police arrived, Hassan disclosed that it was his second time of...