A 22-year-old Taiwanese student, Hsueh Jun-Chen, has burnt himself to death after his father asked him to stop playing video game and go to bed. The online games fan was reportedly in his room at his family home in Fenyuan town, western Taiwan, when father, Liu, told him to go to sleep. After a heated exchange, 48-year-old Liu told his son to stop his gaming habits. The father thought that was the end of the matter until he could not find his son the following day. He went outside to look for him and found the undergraduate's charred remains about 300 meters away from the house. There were empty bottles of petrol nearby. A devastated Liu told Daily Mail that he had only asked his son to stop gaming because of his academics. "I had simply said that he should sleep rather than play because university was starting again after the holidays. "He said he would and that's the last time I saw him alive. 'When I saw that he wasn't in his room the next day, I went into the garage to see if he had gone out on his motorbike. "The bike was still there but I noticed that two cans of petrol were missing. "That made me feel worried and I began to fear the worst." One of Hsueh's teachers, Li Hong, described him as 'very smart.' "I'm very, very surprised. He was such a bright boy; very smart, always did well in class," BHong said. "This is very sad and very unexpected." His friend, On Feng, also 22, said the suicide left him 'speechless'. "I am speechless. I knew he liked playing games, we often did it online together, and I knew he often stayed up late, but I just can't comprehend this." Police believe that academic pressures and worries about getting a job after graduation may have contributed to his decision to commit suicide.

Police fired tear gas canisters into a crowd of applicants protesting at the office of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in Makurdi, Benue State.

Fifty of the protesters were also arrested and are presently in police custody after a violent protest that happened on Tuesday.

Student Pulse gathered that trouble started after applicants for the 2015 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations (UTME) could not get their examination printouts after waiting for hours.

It was reported that the JAMB officials had earlier sent text messages to the candidates, asking them to come to the office for their printout.

Unfortunately, they were turned back and asked to return the next for the same purpose.

With the computer-based test (CBT) coming up in a few days’ time, the candidates became restive and refused to leave the premises.

The confrontation reportedly degenerated into a violent protest.

Some of the students threw missives at the JAMB officials and pulled down the security post.

Riot police called in to quell the situation fired teargas at the protesters and managed to disperse them.

The police also arrested as many as 50 of them.

The Benue Commissioner of Police, Hyacinth Dagala, confirmed the arrest of 50 of them.

He said the students threw stones at official and made a bonfire around the Board's premises.