A teenage student whom police in Guyana accuse of deliberately setting a fire in a girls’ dormitory that killed 18 schoolmates and a five-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with 19 counts of murder. The 15-year-old girl appeared…
7 killed, 23 injured in Thailand school roof collapse
Thai Government on Tuesday said seven people were killed and 23 others injured after a school sports arena collapsed in northern Thailand. According to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), the accident occurred at around 7:00 p.m. local…
Over 50 students hospitalised after smelling gas in school
Japanese Kyodo News on Monday reported that over 50 students were hospitalised after a gas smell was detected at Kamei Elementary School in Yao. According to the news source, around 09:00 a.m. local time (00:00 GMT), a gas smell was…
Schools chief fired after boy, 6, shoots teacher in Virginia
The superintendent of a school in the US state of Virginia has lost his job after a six-year-old pupil shot and wounded a teacher earlier this month. The school board decided by a vote of 5-to-1 to terminate George Parker…
Brazil school shooter kills 3, injures 13 at 2 campuses
A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and wearing a bulletproof vest fatally shot three people and wounded 13 on Friday after barging into two schools in southeastern Brazil, authorities said. The shootings took place at a public school…
Deadly gun attack at Russian school
A gunman has opened fire at a school in central Russia, killing at least 13 people and injuring others, Russian officials say. Victims include seven children at the school of about 1,000 pupils in the city of Izhevsk. The gunman…
Adeboye’s son, Leke, inaugurates library in Lagos school
Pastor Leke Adeboye, son of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has inaugurated a library at the Sogunle Primary School in Ikeja, Lagos. The library was donated by one of the RCCG Youth…
Like the Chrisland girl, I fooled my parents too; that’s what teenagers do
I am not making excuses for anyone; I am not saying anyone is right or wrong on this Chrisland wahala. All I am saying is that, at some point in our growing up years, we lied to our parents and with…
Just like that Chrisland girl, my daughter fooled me, too
I saw the video of that Chrisland girl’s mother online; you know, as a mother, I felt sad for her. Especially when I read that they suspended her daughter. But something in me said, “hummn, the children we are raising…
I went to get aso-ebi but ended up bringing thieves into our house
My madam, I call her mummy is a good woman to me. So, the things that happened to me wasn’t because I wanted to dupe her or steal from her and carry away her jewelry, no. There’s no reason for…