Students have threatened to boycott classes if the Federal Government fails to guarantee the safety of lives and properties in higher institutions across Nigeria. The spate of violence in the country took a new twist on Sunday when bombers and gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, attacked the Bayero [...]
Chairman, Lagos State Medical Advisory Committee to the State Governor, Dr. Ore Falomo, says the government has begun to recruit new doctors to replace the striking ones. He said the measure was to avoid future disruption of services in the state’s hospitals. Falomo, who spoke at a news conference by the committee in Lagos accused [...]
There has been suspense and suspicion in Gombe State since the Thursday night bomb attack on the administrative block of Gombe State University which destroyed part of the vice chancellor’s office. Checks by Daily Trust revealed that the attack has created concern because it was the first time a university is attacked in the country [...]
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has assured the Gombe State University community of adequate security. Dankwambo gave the assurance on Friday in Gombe, while reacting to Thursday’s bomb blast at the Senate Building of the university. He pledged his administration’s commitment toward ensuring the safety of the people’s lives in the state. Dankwambo noted [...]
No fewer than 20 part- time students of Ekiti State University, EKSU, were, Friday, caught with with fake examination clearance papers during the ongoing first semester examination. The development led to the suspension of the examination on the ground of alleged failure of the students to.pay their school fees. According to the Director of Part-Time [...]
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned the murderous terrorist attack on the Bayero University Campus in Kano yesterday, Sunday, April 29, and the brutal killing of innocent worshippers at the University by vicious assailants. President Jonathan deeply regrets this utterly heinous descent to new depths of calumny by the perpetrators of the attack on one [...]
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s re-election campaign began on a tragic note on Saturday following the death of three journalists and a drivers in a ghastly motor accident involving the convoy of the governor. This is coming barely two weeks after the gruesome murder of a cameraman with Benin-based Independent Television, ITV. Unfortunately, two [...]
ThisDay issued a statement last night on the attacks. The statement, signed by Managing Director Eniola Bello, entitled: “Simultaneous attack on ThisDay Abuja, Kaduna offices…an attck on journalism and free speech”, reads: “At about 11:05 am today, a suicide bomber drove an SUV into the premises of our Abuja office, rammed his vehicle into the [...]
Leading Telecommunications Services Provider, Airtel Nigeria and renowned African music artiste, 2face Idibia have concluded plans to stage the 3rd edition of Buckwyld ‘n’ Breathless, a high level musical concert featuring exclusive performances from the African queen crooner, 2face Idibia. The concert, which will hold on the 30th of April, 2012 at the prestigious Eko [...]
Modibbo Adamawa University of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola has expelled three students for “gross misconduct”. The university’s spokesman, Alhaji Mustafa Migawa, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Thursday. He said that the decision to expel the students was taken at the 156th regular meeting of the University’s Senate. “The students [...]
The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, said yesterday that it attacked Thisday newspaper’s offices in Abuja and Kaduna to send a strong message to the media that it would no longer condone reports misrepresenting it in the press, or blaming it for acts it knows nothing about. Abul Qaqa, spokesperson [...]
ABUJA — Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, fixed June 15, to determine the merit of an application seeking to quash the four-count terrorism charge preferred against Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume by the Federal Government. Ndume who is representing Borno South Senatorial District was specifically accused of furnishing the Boko [...]
Activities at the bustling Jabi Park came to a halt yesterday morning following a vicious suicide attack at the Abuja office of ThisDay newspapers, which is directly opposite the park. When Daily Sun arrived the scene by 11. 20 am, a large crowd had gathered at the gate of the park but the police ensured [...]
Police officers could soon be stripped of their assault service rifles and armed with rubber bullets instead, reports said. Speaking in a meeting with stakeholders in Cross River State on Thursday, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, said the new measure of withdrawing loaded rifles from the hands of police officers was in [...]
The Super Eagles will reconvene in the Federal Capital, Abuja on Sunday May 6, ahead of the international friendly against Peru in Lima, May 23 and the upcoming Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers in June. Nigeria has three crucial qualifiers against Namibia, Rwanda and Malawi in June. Eagles Spokesman, Ben Alaiya quotes National Team [...]
A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives on Thursday at the office of a major Nigerian newspaper in the country’s capital and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least seven people in the attacks, witnesses said. The attack in Abuja struck the offices of ThisDay, an [...]
All is now set for the convocation ceremony of the University of Port-harcourt (UNIPORT) on 28th April, 2012. Before the d-day, the school has slated her convocation lecture on 26th April. The Convocation Lecture is titled, “Universities and the Private Sector: Promoting Research and Entrepreneurial Network for Economic Transformation”. This lecture will be taken by [...]
Bowen University hereby calls all candidates who chose the institution as any choice and scored the minimum required cut-off (180) in the 2012 UTME for their Post-UTME screening test which comes up on 12th May, 2012. According to the memo passed across to us, the general O’level requirement to enter the school is as follows; [...]
Applications are invited from qualified candidates for Admission into Bingham University for 3, 4 and 6 year Degree Programmes. Bingham University is owned by the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA). Its founding fathers were visionaries of ECWA extraction who looked back to the golden age of Christian mission education in Nigeria, noted for its moral [...]
Further Information on 2011/2012 Academic Session Registration Exercise, Registration has now been rescheduled to commence on Monday, May 21, 2012 and not on April 30, 2012 as earlier indicated. The rescheduling is to allow time for adequate preparation, particularly sourcing of funds for fees.
Fees to be paid are indicated below. These exclude non- refundable acceptance fee of N5, 000. – N40, 000.00 per student per session for students in hostels – N30, 000.00 per student per session for students not in hostels Fees are payable on May 21,2012 only after receipt of clearance certificate and authority to pay [...]
The University of Uyo will be conducting her matriculation for 2011/2012 Freshers tomorrow, 26th April, 2012. The event is expected to be colourful and filled with excitement. Myschoolcomm hereby wishes all Matriculating students a wonderful celebration. Enjoy.
Madonna University, the first private University in Nigeria and the first Catholic University in Nigeria, has begun her process for admission into the 2012/2013 academic process. The school which boasts of 2 fully equiped campuses in Okija (For arts inclined students) and Elele (For Science, engineering and medically inclined students) will require the following conditions [...]
These days, residents of New Dawn Estate, Magboro, on the Isheri North axis, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, can no longer sleep with their two eyes closed. Their fears arise from predictions by the Nigerian Meteorological Institute (NIMET) that the rainfall for this year would probably surpass [...]
Irked by the resurgence of kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists in Anambra, especially in the state capital, Awka, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday, ordered the hoodlums to leave the capital city or be ready to meet their doom. For some time now, Awka had been witnessing several [...]
