The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Rivers State, has named its newly constructed convocation arena after Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT) and former governor of the state. The ultra-modern arena, built under Wike’s administration as governor, was officially inaugurated on Saturday by Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, retired vice admiral and sole administrator […]
On Tuesday, Governor Nyesom Wike said those who rig elections deserve more punishment than armed robbers because election riggers deprive the people their mandate to attain good governance. While addressing Prof. Stephen Okodudu, Acting Vice-Chancellor (VC), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) at Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Wike also chided lecturers at UNIPORT for […]
The Senate of University of Port Harcourt (UniPort) has expelled eight students over alleged misconduct bordering on plagiarism, extortion and examination malpractices. Dr Williams Wodi, the Deputy Registrar (Information), confirmed the development in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday. READ ALSO: Woman drags husband to court for suspecting she is having an affair He […]
Some students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), on Wednesday protested allege threat by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go on strike over government’s payroll system. ASUU had rejected a Federal Government’s directive mandating academic workers to enrol into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) before Dec. 7. The […]
Twenty-four hours after he was paraded before the press for allegedly killing his niece for ritual purposes by the Rivers State police, 23 year old 200 level student, Ifeanyi Dike, of the Department of Physics, University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, has escaped from police custody. Ifeanyi Dike is alleged to have killed his niece, 8-year-old […]