Many students were injured on Thursday at the Community Secondary School, Oroworukwo in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when an unidentified student allegedly opened a teargas canister in the classroom. Some of the students, who were almost choked by the smoke from the canister, were seen in a video clip that has gone viral, jumping from the first floor of two storey building housing the secondary school It was learnt that the 17-year-old student in SS 2 got the teargas canister from the room of his late father who was a policeman. The teargas canister was said to have exploded and the sound sent students jumping down from the first floor, while those at the top floor were seen in the video running for safety. The incident, according to a source, happened in the morning and forced everybody out of the school premises for the entire day. It was gathered that several students sustained various degrees of injuries as they frantically tried to escape from the two-sto...

FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan has said that no single person should have the power to appoint all the election petition tribunals. This is as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said that the problems of Nigeria were self-inflicted as they flowed from politicisation of everything and the promotion of pervasive injustice.Jonathan, who made this remark during a lecture/book presentation to mark the second term inauguration of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt on Monday, explained that allowing a single person to appoint election petition tribunals would erode the confidence in the system. “The judicial process where one person constitutes all the election tribunals to hear petitions is not right. It is difficult in a democracy for somebody to be extremely neutral.“In one way or the other, somebody close to you will be in one party or the other. The only way to be above is to make sure that one person does not have all the powers to constitute tribunals t...