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Pandemonium and chaos was the order of the day as students and teachers of the Government Day Secondary School, Yola, Adamawa State, was thrown into utter confusion when a male teacher reportedly  stabbed  a female student multiple times. Eyewitnesses report that the said teacher who is simply identified as Mr. Babbal, stabbed a Senior Secondary School 2 student, Zainab Adamu, over what some students who are friends of the victim say it had to do with her refusal to have an affair with him which led to a heated disagreement and the girl threatened to report the issue of  sexual harassment  to the school authority. It took the timely intervention of the police attached to the Divisional Police Station, Wuro-Hausa, Yola, to calm frayed nerves as students r eportedly mobbed the erring teacher beating him to a pulp. Babbal was said to have been arrested while other teachers in the school were invited for questioning while the  victim  was rushed to the ...

The turnout of supporters at the declaration ceremony of Tony Chucks Obuh has sent many book makers to retract their analogies concerning his aspiration. Before now many names have been thrown at him; a stooge, fake coke, political neophyte and a man that is not putative by the generality of Delta People, but the mammoth crowd that thronged the declaration of the former Permanent Secretary have cracked their assessment to mire. The morning of Friday, 07 November, 2014 was naturally balmy. As early as 7am, the venue managers had assembled the protocol staff and security operatives for a final briefing. Even as the officials were putting finishing touches on logistics, the crowds started trooping into the Cenotaph, Asaba for the grand declaration of Tony Chucks Obuh for the Governorship seat of Delta State. The supporters and enthusiasts took their seats before 7.30am when the event that was billed to kick start at 10am. Lo, the Cenotaph was full. The central planning committees we...