Education
EXCLUSIVE: Final-Year IMT Enugu Student Detained Alongside Father, Sisters By Abia Police Unit Without Explanation Risks Missing Exams
A copy of the IMT examination timetable seen by SaharaReporters confirms that her final exams began on May 15 and will end on May 28, 2025.
The nightmare of unlawful detention continues to unfold for a family in Abia State as a final-year student of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, remains behind bars with her father and two siblings, risking her entire academic future.
Gift Chikadibia, a student of the Marketing Department at IMT Enugu, has been locked up since April 12, 2025, after she was arrested alongside her father and sisters in what has been described as a brutal and unjust police operation in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
On Monday, her mother, Chioma Chikadibia, told SaharaReporters that the ongoing detention is threatening her daughter’s graduation.
“Chikadibia Ogechi Gift, she is a student of the Institute of Management and Technology Enugu. She is in the Marketing department,” she said.
“The institution has started exams. She had just returned home for Easter holidays on April 12, and that very day, the incident happened.”
“She is a final student now, at the risk of carrying over all of her courses, not graduating with her mates,” Mrs Chikadibia added.
A copy of the IMT examination timetable seen by SaharaReporters confirms that her final exams began on May 15 and will end on May 28, 2025.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported how police officers from the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, Mopol Base Umuahia, stormed the family compound in a midnight raid, arrested Mr. Chikadibia Sunday and three daughters, and whisked them away to an undisclosed location.
The police have offered no explanation for the arrests, and the detainees have been denied access to lawyers or any form of communication since then.
The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC), a human rights watchdog, first raised the alarm over the case, describing it as another harrowing example of police lawlessness and the abuse of due process in Nigeria.
According to RULAAC, the police officers who carried out the operation were heavily armed and not in uniform. They broke into the family’s property, ransacked the home, and made away with valuables and money.
One of the daughters who spoke anonymously said: “They were fully armed, they were five in number, they were not in uniform… They said go to Glory’s room and search, where is Ikenna’s; they broke the door of his room, collected all the properties inside his room and some money.”
Another family member, Ngozi Chikadibia, was allegedly lured to a location by a phone call and subsequently abducted. The other sisters, Sunday Glory and Gift Chikadibia, were also picked up and detained.
Despite repeated attempts by the family’s lawyer to access the detainees, police authorities have remained tight-lipped and hostile.
A source, however, told SaharaReporters that the family members are being held at the Mopol Base and mistreated.
RULAAC’s Executive Director, Okechukwu Nwanguma, condemned the incident, stating that it represents a shocking abuse of police power and a disregard for citizens’ rights.
“RULAAC is alarmed at this information which reveals a gross abuse of police power, abuse of due process and established procedures for arrest, detention and treatment of persons arrested and detained for any alleged offence,” he said.
He called on the Inspector-General of Police and the Abia State police commissioner to urgently investigate the case, punish those responsible, and release the detained family members immediately.
Education
Nigerian Law School Student Reportedly Takes His Own Life Following Disqualification From Bar Final Exam In Yola
Ayomiposi Ojajuni, a Nigerian Law School student, has passed away after reportedly being barred from taking the Bar Final examinations at the Yola Campus.
According to SaharaReporters, sources said that Ojajuni, a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, became visibly distressed on Saturday morning, December 6, upon learning he had been barred from participating in the professional examination, which began that day.
He was later said to have ingested a harmful substance shortly after receiving the news.
It was further gathered that the decision to deny him access to the exam was taken as a disciplinary action, following multiple queries previously issued to him by the institution.
Ojajuni was rushed to the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola, where he died on Sunday.
Education
Borno Kids Stole The Show At NYSC Camp With Flawless March Past (Video)
A group of primary school pupils from host communities in Borno State captivated participants at the NYSC orientation camp in Maiduguri with a precise and energetic marching display during the inter-platoon parade competition.
The viral footage shows four children marching confidently beside corps members, sparking loud cheers from onlookers who were visibly delighted by their coordination and enthusiasm.
The heartwarming moment quickly gained traction on social media, where users applauded the Army and the NYSC for creating an atmosphere of joy and normalcy in a region often defined by insecurity.
The children later received warm praise and encouragement from military officials and corps members at the camp, rounding off a memorable day marked by wide smiles and excitement.
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Education
Teachers strike looms in Kwara over unmet demands
A statewide industrial action by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, looms in Kwara State as a result of unmet demands to the state government.
The national body of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) criticised the state government for what it described as continued failure to address long-standing welfare concerns affecting teachers across the state.
In a letter addressed to Governor Abdulraham Abdulrazaq, the union condemned the government’s refusal to implement the 27.5% Teachers Specific Allowance (TSA) and the National Harmonized Teachers Retirement Age Act, 2022.
The letter, dated November 13, 2025, and acknowledged by the Governor’s Office on November 17, was jointly signed by the NUT National President, Comrade Audu Titus Amba, and the Secretary-General, Dr Clinton Ikpitibo.
The NUT stated in the letter that several engagements with government officials between 2023 and 2025 did not yield any positive outcome.
The union expressed disappointment that while the government had approved consolidated salary structures for medical workers, nurses, and judiciary staff, the long-standing demands of teachers remained unaddressed.
It warned that the refusal to implement the 27.5% TSA for TRCN-certified teachers and 21% for non-TRCN-certified teachers had pushed teachers in the state “into a riotous mode,” noting that frustration within the system had reached breaking point.
The NUT also criticized the government’s failure to implement the National Harmonized Teachers Retirement Age Act, which extends teachers’ retirement age to 65 years or 40 years in service.
The letter added that over 25 states had already complied with the law, lamenting that Kwara State despite being led by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, had failed to follow suit.
The union called on the governor to convene an emergency meeting before December 13, 2025, stressing that there was still room for peaceful resolution if the government acted promptly.
“We do hope that our interventionist approach is accepted, because to jaw-jaw will be better than to war-war,” the NUT said.
Copies of the letter were sent to the Acting Head of Service, the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, the State Controller of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, and the Kwara chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the NUT.
With tension rising among teachers, the union warned that failure to address the issues urgently, could trigger a fresh industrial action that may disrupt academic activities across the state.
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