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MainaGate: NANS calls for immediate suspension of accomplices

Ihesiulo Grace 29 October 2017 0

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for immediate suspension of those suspected of complicity in reinstating Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of Pension Task Team, into civil service. NANS’s President, Chinonso Obasi, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said

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21,650 write UI post-UTME exam

Ihesiulo Grace 22 October 2017 0

No fewer than 21, 650 candidates on Saturday sat for the University of Ibadan 2017 Post-UTME examination, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN Correspondent, who monitored the examination, reports that the exercise which commenced on Oct. 20 was rounded up on Oct. 21. NAN reports that the two-day exercise witnessed heavy vehicular […]

Crime News

Robbers raid students’ hostel

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2017 0

Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Armed hoodlums numbering about three, operating with a motorcycle during the night of the day, robbed students’ hostel located at Area 74, back of Ibori Golf Club between 9 and 10pm in Asaba. It was gathered that the hoodlums robbed apartments, including that of a banker residing in the hostel. According to […]

News In Brief

Three bodies recovered in Kaduna drowning

Ihesiulo Grace 13 October 2017 0

Three bodies have been recovered of five students who drowned in the Kaduna River on Wednesday. The private school students had gone on an excursion when the incident occurred. The victims slipped from an old barge and plunged into the water while on an excursion to a waterworks facility at the Kaduna River in the […]

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Students leave exams, to fight in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 26 September 2017 0

Rival youths gangs suspected to be students and candidates writing the GCE examinations are currently on rampage around Sura/Adeniji axis near Dolphin High School, Lagos Island. More to follow

Business

Students laud Global Interns on career connect series

Ihesiulo Grace 24 August 2017 0

Students from various senior secondary schools and tertiary institutions have commended Global Interns for broadening their horizon on career planning and internship opportunities at the Career Connect Series held on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 in Lagos. The workshop, which took place at The Incubator in Victoria Island, had in attendance seasoned facilitators including Greg

Opinion

Reduction of JAMB cut off marks for admission: Violence to university education

Ihesiulo Grace 24 August 2017 0

On June 3, last year, a day after the Federal Government announced the scrapping of the Post UTME as part of the qualifying procedure for admission into Nigerian Universities, I cautioned in a write-up that was published in many Nigerian newspapers that that singular step was nothing but a calamitous mistake. Good enough, the Federal […]

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Obaseki approves Special Bursary for Visually Impaired Students

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2017 0

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has approved the payment of special bursary for visually impaired students of Edo origin studying in tertiary institutions. Obaseki gave the approval on Monday when the executive members of the state chapter of the Nigeria Association of the Blind (NAB), paid him a courtesy visit at the […]

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ASUU Strike: Students ignored strike call-off…deserts campus

Ihesiulo Grace 23 November 2016 0

Students in tertiary institutions in Calabar, the Cross River state capital, have refused to return to lecture rooms even as the Academic Staff Union of the University (ASUU) called off the one week warning strike  embarked upon by the Union. Our correspondent who visited some Institutions on Wednesday observed that the students who left the […]

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FGGC Sagamu Alumni to Empower Students

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2015 0

The Federal Government Girls College, Sagamu (FGGCS), Alumni in the United States of America has said it has mapped out collective plans to raise funds and resources to support the Alma Mater and less fortunate students. In a statement made available to Daily times and signed by its Vice-President, Board of Directors, Mrs Abimbola Art-Alade […]