The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that, three South Korean sailors kidnapped by Nigerian pirates in seas off Ghana last month have been released safely.

“Our three abducted nationals were freed on April 27 (local time) and were handed to our side, they are in our protection in a safe place," the ministry said.

The captain, engineer and mate of the 500-ton fishing boat, Marine 711, were hijacked by pirates, identified as Nigerians on March 26.

Miss Monica Osagie, the victim in the sex-for-marks scandal at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has told an investigative panel that the disgraced Professor Richard Akindele deliberately failed her because she refused his sexual demand.

She said she did not score 33 per cent as the lecturer claimed, but was failed so that she could bow to his sexual demand.

Monica said this today when she appeared before the panel, her lawyer Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi told newsmen.

Osagie had appeared before the committee set up by the institution’s authorities in company of her counsel.

Osagie, a student in the Masters of Business programme, released a recorded telephone conversation, which went viral, in which the lecturer identified as Akindele, demanded five rounds of sex to enhance her marks.

Monica Osagie, a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, at the center of the sex-for-mark crisis rocking the school, on Tuesday appeared before the committee set up by the university.

In a leaked telephone conversation, Richard Akindele, a professor in the institution, was heard demanding sex from Osagie, a postgraduate student of business administration.

Akindele solicited sex to award her a pass mark.

After the audio went viral, Eyitope Ogunbodede, OAU vice-chancellor, announced that a panel had been set up.

Emerging reports indicate that suspected herdsmen on Tuesday killed 15 people including two catholic priests in an early morning attack on a Catholic Church in Ayar-Mbalom, a community in Gwer East Local Government Area, Benue State. Terver Akase, a spokesperson to Governor Samuel Ortom, who confirmed the attack, said the attackers also burnt 50 houses and sacked the entire community, before escaping.

Contrary to insinuations that some politicians currently under Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation were responsible for the attack on the farmhouse of the Acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, the suspects have been arrested by the Police and have explained why they carried out the attack.

A Lagos High Court Sitting in the Ikeja area has ordered a suspended judge at the Federal High Court, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, to face trial for alleged corruption.

Justice Sherifat Solebo gave the order on Monday while ruling on the case of allegations of corruption preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Justice Yunusa was arraigned by the anti-graft agency on four counts bordering on an attempted perversion of the course of justice and corruption by a public official.