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The Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, has said the institution may involve the police to verify a telephone conversation involving Prof. Richard Akindele and the student of the institution. Professor Akindele was said to have asked a female student for sex in order to help her pass her exams. The VC speaking to journalists in Osogbo on Sunday said the university might involve the police to get to the root of the matter if the investigation committee runs into a hitch. He said, “We have a committee that is investigating the matter now and we gave them one week to submit their report. If we run into any hitch, we can use all the resources available to get to where we are going. But once things are running smoothly, we may not need to involve the police. “But we must first identify those involved and where they are; if we have any problem doing that, then that is when the university will invite the police. “The committee’s one week will elapse...

It has been alleged that a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Richard Akindele, has requested to have sex with a female student of the institution in order to raise her scores in the course he teaches. This follows an alleged recording of a phone conversation between the student and the lecturer. In the said phone conversation, the professor could be heard, asking the student to have sex with him five times so an alleged score of 33 could be upgraded to a pass mark. The following dialogue was recorded: Student: Hello Sir, Professor Akindele, yesterday you said something but because I was close to my boyfriend, I could not say anything. You said you’ve submitted it Lecturer: I gave you an opportunity and you missed it. Forget about it. You will do it next year. Student: I was calling to confirm whether you were serious about it. Lecturer: Me that agreed to do something. I know what I meant. If you don’t trust me, forget about it. If I wouldn’t do it, why shoul...

Music Legend, ‘Tuface ’ Idibia has called on the Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC) to intervene in the ongoing Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSCON) crisis. Tuface in a petition addressed to the NCC, lamented that Efe Omorogbe and other COSON board members were “being harassed, and intimidated’ by the police. This is in regards to power tussle between Tony Okoroji and Efe Omorogbe, who are both laying claim to the leadership of the body. Tuface in the petition accused Okoroji of fighting for the control of COSON for “personal ends”. The petition, addressed to Alam Ezekude, director-general of NCC, was copied to the Ibrahim Idris, the inspector-general of police, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and President Muhammadu Buhari. It read “It is quite unfortunate and disheartening that a simple call for accountability and transparency has degenerated into relentless media attack, harassment and intimidation of the group of people who made the call. “The pers...

Ghanaian rapper, Wale Shatta; and his mistress, Michy, have been embroiled in physical abuse, which has since spilled over on to the social media. Shatta in his post alleged that Mitchy slapped him in front of her mother while holding a knife. He noted that anytime there was a problem, Mitchy always feigned an accident by cutting herself with a blade, broken bottles just to paint him black. Mitchy responded to Shatta’s claims, calling him is “a hypocrite” who will hurt her and come on social media to seek public sympathy. She hared a photo of a bump on her head, which she claimed the rapper inflicted on her.

The French government is building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities can spy on private conversations between top officials, France digital ministry said on Monday. None of the world’s major encrypted messaging apps, including Facebook’s (FB.O) WhatsApp and Telegram, a favorite of President Emmanuel Macron, are based in France, raising the risk of data breaches at servers outside the country. The ministry said about 20 officials and top civil servants are testing the new app which a state-employed developer has designed with the aim that its use will become mandatory for the whole government by the summer. “We need to find a way to have an encrypted messaging service that is not encrypted by the United States or Russia. “You start thinking about the potential breaches that could happen, as we saw with Facebook, so we should take the lead,’’ the digital ministry said. The U.S. social network, which bought WhatsApp in 2014, has drawn heavy critici...

A crude bomb went off outside an Indian government relief office in Nepal causing minor damage but no injuries, officials said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a rare gesture of Nepali anger toward its giant neighbor to the south. The blast happened in Biratnagar town, near the Indian border, 200 km (125 miles) southeast of the capital, Kathmandu, late on Monday, police official Tilak Shrestha told Reuters. A wall of the Indian compound, set up to coordinate movement of vehicles in the border area after widespread floods in 2008 closed the main road, was damaged, said Seshnarayan Paudel, a senior district official. “The incident took place at night and there was no one inside the office,” Paudel said.  No one claimed responsibility and the motive was not known, he said. Army spokesman Colonel Vijay Thapa said the blast was caused by a crude bomb made in a pressure cooker. India is Nepal’s largest trade partner and the supplier of the bulk of its consumer goods and India’s per...