NEWSLETTERS: An ugly week with bad stories in Nigerian campuses
This past week was characterised with sad stories in different universities, polytechnics across Nigeria among the students. Student activist killed hours after facing LASU panel’ The Education Rights Campaign has…
Full list: UI, Covenant, OAU emerge top universities in Nigeria, IMSU ranked 40th
The University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and Obafemi Awolowo University have been ranked top in Nigeria by Webometrics in its latest rating. Analysis of the latest ranking showed that no…
Police Stop Family of Murdered LASU Student Leader from Performing Autopsy
Officers of Adoff Police Station in the Iba area of Lagos have told the family of Yusuf Nurudeen Alowonle, an education rights activist who was murdered in front of Lagos…
Buhari reappoints Oloyede as JAMB Registrar
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Ishaq Oloyede as Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for a second term of five years. Others reappointed by the President include…
2021 WASSCE: Shun exam malpractice, WAEC tells candidates
The Head of the National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mr Patrick Areghan has cautioned candidates who are sitting the ongoing school-based West African Senior School Certificate…
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- August 19, 2021
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Nigerian lecturer arraigned over N20.6m fraud
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged a dean in the University of Calabar, Prof. Francisca Ime Bassey, to court over her alleged involvement in…
How Anambra, Ogun, Imo, Edo, Ebonyi abandoned N10 billion UBE fund with UBEC
DESPITE the decay, shortage and dilapidation of infrastructure as witnessed in most public schools across the country, Nigerian Tribune checks has revealed that state governments have abandoned over N29 billion…
Certificate: Man fights YABATECH for 41 years, dies after victory
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…
JAMB, heads of tertiary institutions decide 2021 /2022 admission cut-off point Aug 31
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.…
Sexual harassment, exam malpractice scandals rock UNICAL
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…
UNICAL probes sorting, extortion, sexual harassment, exam malpractices
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…
NIN registration to become compulsory for WASSCE candidates from next year, says WAEC
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…
Okorocha to build Islamic university in Buhari’s hometown
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…
Despite certificate forgery scandal, IMSU restates suspended lecturer
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.…
Alex Ekwueme Federal University denies alleged increase in fees
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…