The Federal Government has approved the dissolution of the Governing Councils of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State and the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, in Delta State. The government announced the decision in a statement by the Director of Information, Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Bem-Goong, saying that the addition is with immediate effect. […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has decried the closure of its secretariat by the management of the University of Port Harcourt, describing the act “unjust”. Dr Austen Sado, chairman of the institution’s chapter of ASUU, told newsmen on Friday in Abuja that the welfare of academic staff of the university had been jeopardized […]
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 […]
The Rivers Police Command said it had rescued a lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt, Mrs Awala George, abducted on March 3. Confirming her rescue, Mr Ahmad Muhammad, a DSP, and the Public Relations Officer of the Command, said the lecturer was freed on March 11 in an uncompleted building in Port Harcourt. ‘’Following […]