OYO State-born pioneer President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Oladele, who secured victory after 41 years battled with Yaba College of Technology in Lagos, was planning big for his convocation before he died, his son, Olalekan said on Tuesday. According to him, the 72-year-old activist was celebrating his victory against YABATECH after […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) and heads of tertiary institutions will on August 31 at a Policy Meeting, peg the minimum cut – off mark for 2021/ 2022 admissions. According to the Board, decisions would be reached on the new minimum cut-off marks and other admission issues at the policy meeting which will be […]
THE University of Calabar (UNICAL), is currently reeling under series of scandals such as sorting, extortion, sexual harassment and examination malpractices by its academic staff, prompting the authorities to launch a probe. The university authorities said it had identified the culprits, just as it threatened to make them face its disciplinary committee. In a memo […]
The University of Calabar, UNICAL, has said that it had discovered that some members of the academic staff of the university have revived obnoxious acts of sorting, extortion, sexual harassment and examination malpractices in the university. The Authority of the university, therefore, warns those involved, whom it said had been identified, to desist and repent, […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has made it mandatory for candidates who want to sit for the exams in Nigeria from next year to have been enrolled for a National Identifification Number (NIN) with the National Identification Management Commission. The head of national office of WAEC Nigeria, Mr Patrick Areghan, made this disclosure on […]
A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has promised to build an Islamic University in Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown. Mr Okorocha, a senator and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said the Rochas Okorocha Foundation would build the university. The former governor was recently conferred with the traditional title of Maga […]
A senior lecturer and immediate past Head of Department, Electrical Electronics Engineering, Imo State University, Owerri, Dr Michael Anumaka, is in the midst of the storm over alleged certificate forgery. According to Punch, the lecturer, who was employed in the university in 2012, allegedly claimed to have obtained his first degree in Electrical Electronics Engineering […]
The Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi on Saturday denied media reports alleging that the institution had increased student accommodation fee from N70, 000 to N300, 000. The denial is contained in a statement issued to reporters in Abakaliki by the institution’s spokesperson, Mr Ikechukwu Ubochi. Citing a publication […]
The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has launched investigations into an allegation a lecturer sexually assaulted a year-one female student of the institution. The lecturer of Foreign Languages and Literatures, whose name was kept under wraps, allegedly committed the act at the student’s off-campus room at Aluu in Ikwere Local Government Area of Rivers State. […]
The l government has revealed moves to make Nigeria’s degrees and diplomas accepted by other African countries. Precisely, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) said it had ratified the convention seeking to regularise the recognition of diplomas and certificates across the continent. The junior education minister Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba told journalists after the virtual FEC meeting presided […]
