Keep Off Registration Process If You Are Not A Participant, JAMB Registrar Warns
Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has appealed to non-participants of its examinations to keep off the registration process. Oloyede made the appeal after monitoring registration process of the board’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE), on Thursday in Abuja. He observed that most of the challenges faced by candidates at the point of...
After COVID-19 Disruption In Education System, Strike Needless, NANS Tells FG, ASUU (Video)
National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS Abia State Axis has called on the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU to reach a compromise to ensure that the ongoing one month warning strike by ASUU is quickly brought to an end to enable the students go back to school, noting that the COVID-19 disruption in educational...
Female Inmate, Okike Chinyere Emerges Best Graduating Student
A female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos State Command, Okike Chinyere, has emerged as the best graduating student of the Peace and Conflict Resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). She bagged a second-class upper degree in the course, according to a statement by the correctional service. Aside from her, a male inmate, Alegbe Afolabi, was awarded an MSc in...
NNPC Donates N400m Structure To Bayero University Kano
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Friday commissioned and handed over a newly built edifice to house the Department of Civil Engineering, Bayero University Kano (BUK). According to the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, the company spent N400 million on the building. He said the donation is part of NNPCs contribution to educational development in the country’s tertiary institutions. Kyari,...
Stop Using Money Your Husband Gave For Children’s Fees To Stock Your Shops, Proprietress Begs Mothers
The Proprietress of Folarin Dalley International College, Mrs. Toyin Dalley has called on mothers to desist from the ‘habit of stocking their shops and warehouses’ with their children’s school fees, given by their husbands. Dalley, who made the call at the weekend in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, warned against what she described as the “awful and disgraceful habit of...
1.5m Candidates Register For UTME/DE As JAMB Ends Registration March 26
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reiterated its stand to close its 2022 registration exercise on Saturday, March 26, as earlier scheduled. The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday, in Abuja. JAMB said that the sale of e-PINs for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE)...
Vice-Chancellors Meet, Discuss Future Of Varsities
Amid strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has met at the University of Ibadan (UI) in Oyo State to discuss the future of Nigerian universities. The meeting, which is part of the activities marking the Diamond Jubilee celebration anniversary of the committee, is tagged, “Sixty Years in Sixty Minutes: Exploring...
As University Strike Continues, ASUP Threaten To Shut Down All Polytechnics
As the warning strike embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities enters second month, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Thursday threatened to shut down all Polytechnics across the country if the Federal Government fails to meet up with its demands within the next one month. The ASUP President Comrade Anderson Ezeibe made the threat while addressing...
Orji Kalu’s Bills To Establish Fed Polytech, College of Education Gets First/Second Readings [VIDEO]
ABUJA: Bills for the establishment of a Federal Polytechnic, Abiriba and the Federal College of Education, Arochukwu both in Abia North of Abia State have been granted first and second readings respec...
ABSU Inducts Medical Graduates, Announces Increase In School Fees
The Vice Chancellor of Abia State University, Uturu, Professor Onyemachi Ogbulu, on Wednesday, pleaded with parents/guardians to prepare themselves for a slight adjustment in fees by the school. Addressing the 17 newly inducted “Batch B” medical doctors during the 28th induction/swearing-in ceremony, the VC said that the present economic realities had made it necessary for an upward review of school...