Lagos State University has emerged the Best School delegation at the just concluded 9th & 10th Nigerian International Tertiary Institutions Model United Nations (NITIMUN) Conference held in Abuja. The five-day International Conference with the theme, “Tackling Unemployment and Youth Involvement in Cyber Crime,” was held from Saturday, December 2 to Wednesday, December 6 December, 2017, […]
In what could be described as another milestone in the history of Caleb University, a private university in Imota, Lagos, the choir recently launched an album with seven soul inspiring tracks . According to the Public Relation Officer, Mr Elvis Otobo the album is inspired to create true worship , build hope and confidence in […]
Crawford University owned by The Apostolic Faith in Igbesa Ogun State is set to graduate about 230 first degree students at its 9th convocation ceremony slated for December 13, 2017. Addressing journalists at a press briefing to kick start activities marking the 9th convocation, Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Isaac Ajayi said the convocation […]
…Earns N168,480,000 per annum Britain’s highest paid university vice-chancellor has stepped down amid a row over her pay but will receive her full salary until 2019 in a generous “golden goodbye”. Rosemary Bennett reporting for The Times of London said Dame Glynis Breakwell, vice-chancellor of Bath University whose salary package is £468,000, (about N168,480,000) will […]
A Professor of English language at the University of Port Harcourt, Nkem Okoh has released a new guide to “usage and grammar” in English. The book was presented to the public recently at Ebitimi Banigo Auditorium at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In the book titled: Keep Your Language Clean, the author avoids […]
…..crimes multiplies, economic activities grounded Close to a month after a House wife and a student of Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) were reported dead at no 14 Adak Uko street in Calabar, Calabar South and part of Calabar Municipal and Odukpani local government have remained in dark and without electricity supply for […]
Restiveness across Nigerian university campuses appears to be a phenomenon as old as tertiary education in the country. Each university has had to contend with this menace which appears to have defied solution. This informed the gathering of Deans and Officers of Students’ Affairs in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria, (ADOSATIN) in Sango-Otta, Ogun State recently […]
….Places N1m reward for anyone who fishes out EKSU killing cultists Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has said the state is sponsoring a bill against incessant killings by student cultists on the state university campus. The bill, when passed into law, would hand out death penalty to anyone found guilty of involvement in cultism […]
….Gov Ugwuanyi expected The Brand Journalists Association of Nigeria (BJAN) the umbrella body for all journalists who cover the Integrated Marketing Communications sector in the country is set to hold its 5th Annual Brands and Marketing Conference in Enugu State, Nigeria. The conference, which is one of the association’s major programmes for the year, is […]
Niger Delta University Alumni Association NDUAA election held on Saturday at Law faculty in Ovum, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State was disrupted as some of the members alleged that the process had been compromised, leading to hijack of accreditation materials and destruction of ballot boxes and papers. What began as a peaceful process with accreditation that began […]
The Act will ensure the establishment of the University of Petroleum Resources in Effurun, Delta State, for training and research in petroleum technologies. The president has signed a bill on the establishment of the University of Petroleum Resources in Effurun, Delta State, into law. At the signing ceremony held at the State House on Tuesday, […]
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 […]
The last time I checked, there was an ongoing move by the Imo State government to transform the state Polytechnic at Umuagwo in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Council – to a university. The intention was occasioned by the present administration’s perception that the institution deserves to be given a lift in all ramifications. If one says […]
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Imo State University, Owerri chapter have begun an indefinite strike action. The strike is as a result of the inability of the management of the institution under its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, a former ASUU President, to pay their salaries for two months (March and […]
Lagos State Government has said that the Lagos State University (LASU) will remain closed until the unions, students and management agree to maintain peace. The institution was closed down in March following the ongoing face-off between management and the various trade unions including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian […]
All Progressive Congress( APC) Niger state on Monday uncovered the plan by Niger State government to recruit more workers to force the incoming government rationalize the work force in the State. The Government aim of embarking on the mass recruitment of workers is to leave behind large workforce that will weigh down the next administration. […]
The Niger state Government has budgeted over N594.6m for the recruitment of staff to the new University of Education and the College of Education both in Minna the state capital. The amount will cover the salaries of 302 teaching and non -teaching staff for the University of Education as well as 6 management staff as […]