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There was pandemonium in Okesha area of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state on Saturday as a bomb went off next door to the governor’s office. TheCable learnt the explosion brought down a building around the area and that it also affected a section of the state ministry of chieftaincy affairs. The explosion also damaged parts of the ministry of finance, and other buildings on the premises. Amba Asuquo, commissioner of police, was at the scene of the blast, and he said preliminary investigation revealed that the bomb might have gone off from the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) office within the premises. Muyiwa Olomilua, commissioner of information for the state, also confirmed the incident. ”An explosion was reported earlier this morning at the Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) office in Ado Ekiti,” he said. ”An initial on-the-spot assessment confirms that there are no casualties and the area is secured with no further threats. Members of the public are advised to go about their n...

Secretary to Ekiti State Government, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, consoling Mrs. Esther Okunofua, mother of late Joseph Okunofua, when Ekiti State Government delegation paid a condolence visit to the family of the slain student of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti; in Ido-Ekiti…on Friday. A human rights lawyer, Mr. Morakinyo Ogele, on Thursday, dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, before a High Court in Ado Ekiti, seeking N1 billion in damages over the alleged killing of two students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE). Also joined in the suit is the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti. The late students, Kehinde Dada, a 100 level student of the Department Agriculture and Horticulture and Okonofua Joseph, a 300 level Biology Education student, were both hit by bullets, allegedly fired by the police and died. The students were protesting over epileptic power supply in the university. Ogele filed the suit according to Order 11 Rule 1 of the Fundamental R...

resumption of normal academic activities was on Friday raised by the management of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) as the panel earlier set up to investigate events leading to the tragedy that greeted the September 10 bloody protest by the students, has submitted its report. Two students of FUOYE, Joseph Okonufua and Dada Kehinde, were shot dead allegedly by security agents during a protest by the students to press home their demand for adequate power supply by the Benin Electricity  Distribution Company (BEDC) to the twin campuses of Ikole and Oye and their environs. A press statement on Friday from the office of FUOYE’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Geoffrey Bakji, said the university management team had paid warm visits to the parents of the deceased and had since put in place an investigative panel. The statement further reads in part: “The panel has interacted with the students’ body, all security agents involved in the crisis, state government, the two com...

Sex for grades': Undercover in West African universities Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana. Female reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras. Reporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities. How have you been impacted by our investigation into sex for grades? If you would like to share your experience with BBC Africa Eye,  contact us here. Further information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found throug...