FCT Primary School Teachers have begun an indefinite strike today in compliance with the directive and circular issued by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, FCT Chapter in Abuja. To this end, the Federal Capital Territory Wing, has directed primary school teachers in the territory to resume strike today. The union gave the directive in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the State Wing Standing […]
An Akwa Ibom State-born teacher has broken the recent 124-hour Guinness World Record for the ‘longest marathon reading aloud’ by an individual. The teacher, simply identified as John Obot, broke the GWR set by Isakov of Turkey and is now setting a new record of 145 hours of non-stop reading aloud. A member of the Uyo Book Club, Obot first started the marathon on Saturday, September 5 in Uyo, Akwa […]
South Korean police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife in the city of Daejeon on Friday, in the country’s second apparently random knife attack in two days. Officials at the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency did not immediately release the personal details of the suspect, describing him only as a man in his late 20s. According to police, the suspect waited for the […]
An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage student has been found guilty of sexual abuse. Judge Sarah Huggett of the Sydney Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday convicted Chris Dawson on a charge of “carnal knowledge upon a girl above the age of 10 and under the age of 17.” The charge relates to the same student Dawson […]
