SAD!! Corps Member Dies After Complaining Of Stomach Ache
A corps member has died hours after complaining of stomach pain. It was gathered that Idemudia Jude, is a corps member serving in Sokoto state, a Batch C Stream A, complained of stomach pain on Monday night, March 9. He was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after.
MBBS Examination: Ikpeazu Lauds ABSUTH, Promises to Do More for Institution
Abia State, Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has applauded students, management and staff of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba, for the results posted by students of the institution in the just concluded 4th and 5th MBBS examination. According to a statement released by the state Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, the Governor who described the performance as...
Gombe State University Shuns ASUU, Resumes Academic Activities, Opens Register For Lecturers
The Governing Council of the Gombe State University (GSU) Thursday directed all academic staff of the institution to resume work with immediate effect. This was contained in an internal memo dated September 2 and signed by the Registrar of the university, Dr Abubakar Aliyu Bafeto. He said the management arrived at the decision after its second emergency meeting held yesterday, adding...
How KWASU HOD Human Kinetics And Health Education Died — Registrar
The Kwara State University (KWASU) has confirmed the death of Dr Ajeigbe Yaqub, its Head of Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education and Acting Director of Sports. A statement from the Registrar, Dr Kikelomo Sallee, on Monday in Ilorin said Yaqub died in his sleep on Monday. ”As the University mourns this loss of a committed member of staff, we...
Four Kogi Polytechnic Lecturers Fired Over Fraud, Sexual Misconduct
The management of the Kogi state polytechnic, Lokoja, has dismissed four senior lecturers from service for alleged acts of gross misconduct bordering on fraud, sexual harassment and other offences. The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Uredo Omale, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lokoja on Friday. She said the concerned lecturers were dismissed for misconduct, bordering...
We Are Willing To Call Off ASUU Strike – Prof Osodeke
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, says the union is willing to end its seven-month-old strike. Osodeke disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency.’ Recall that the union embarked on industrial action on February 14, making...
Youth Forum Rejects Planned WAEC CBT Exams
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has called for the cancellation of the proposed Computer-Based Test format in the forthcoming West African Examinations Council examinations in the country. According to the forum, introducing such a mode of examination will result in mass failure for students, particularly in rural areas where computer skills are scarce or completely absent. ABNTV reports that the West African...
Public And Private Schools Can Reopen Monday – Lagos Govt
Private and public schools in Lagos State can reopen from Monday, November 2, 2020. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, made this known in a statement on Thursday. The statement was titled, ‘LASG approves reopening of schools from Monday’. It read in part, “The Lagos State Government has approved the re-opening of schools for all classes in public and private schools...
Kwara State College Of Education, Ilorin, Seize Certificates Of Two Students Over Sign-out Immoral Display
Kwara State College Of Education, Ilorin, has seized the certificates of their two students over immoral display on sign-out day. The school had earlier issued out a warning to all of intending graduates about unruly signing out behaviour before the day these two students flouted the order. More details to follow...
Sex-for-marks bill: 15,550 parents, pupils petition National Assembly
A civil society organisation, Exam Ethics Marshals International, said it had delivered a petition signed by 15,550 parents, pupils and other stakeholders to the office of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to demand the speedy passage of the bill for the prohibition of sex-for-grade and other forms of sexual harassment. The group said on Sunday that the petitioners were made...
