Scholarships are being remodeled at the American University of Nigeria where all prospective students interested in the merit-based scholarships are required to write a competitive examination. It will henceforth be administered every May in all the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria. To qualify for the scholarship contest, candidates must have a minimum score of 245 [...]
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Akwa Ibom State University has released her 1st batch of 2012/2013 Admission list for 1st choice candidates. Candidates who have been expecting their names can now check their names on the admission list which is now available online. To check your name, you will need a system or device that can read a PDF file. [...]
The Federal University Of Technology Owerri, has released the result of candidates who took part in the 2012/2013 FUTO direct entry screening examination. The results has been uploaded online and can be accessed by following the steps below: 1. To access the Direct Entry Result Checking Portal, click here: www.directentry.futo.imoconnect.com 2. Click On the “direct [...]
University Of Nigeria Nsukka(UNN) has released the result of the 2012/2013 post UTME screening test. Candidates who sat for the test in UNN are to check their results online via the University Website.
A total of 1,277 of the 2,150 corps members posted to Kano State for the 2012 ‘Batch B service year have so far sought for redeployment to other states. The state NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Bashir Yakasai, disclosed this in an interview in Kano on Monday. He said that of those, who sought redeployment, 1,108 were [...]
Arsenal football club of England yesterday presented to the Nigerian public the five most outstanding youngsters discovered at the just concluded National Finals of the on-going Airtel Rising Stars Season 2 U-17tournament for boys and girls. Three senior Arsenal players on a partnership visit to Nigeria namely, Bacari Sagna, Per Merteserker and Lukas Podoski unveiled [...]
Suicide bombings at two police stations Monday killed at least two persons in the northwestern Nigerian city of Sokoto, the historic seat of Islam in the country, officials and residents said. Separately, police guarding a home belonging to Vice President Namadi Sambo came under fire from gunmen in the northern city of Zaria, leaving one [...]
Three of the five nodes, or branches, of the Pan-African University (PAU) – a higher education institute first proposed by the African Union (AU) in 2008 – will admit their first students in September. Jean-Pierre Ezin, AU Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology, announced this month (10 July) that the PAU’s Western, Eastern and [...]
THE suspended licence of the Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU) Ikeji Arakeji in Osun State has been restored by the National Universities Commission (NUC). Consequently, the authorities of the university have converted the over 3,600 students affected by the directive of the NUC in its part time programmes to full time. The Vice Chancellor of [...]
Alade Aminu scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds while Ike Diogu added 13 points and 10 rebounds as Nigeria just beat Tunisia 60-56 in the opening game of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament. Al-Farouq Aminu, who played for the NBA New Orleans Hornets last season, added 10 points and nine rebounds for the Nigerians, [...]
Operatives of Department of Security Services (DSS), Kwara State has arrested and paraded a seven-man gang suspected of indulging in cult activities, abduction and raping of a female student in one of the colleges of education in the state. The suspects, all under 25 years were arrested by the operatives at Ode-Sarumi in Ilorin West [...]
Security was beefed up at University of Nigeria Nsukka, on Friday as the university conducted the post-UTME test for students seeking admission into its programmes. The examination is holding on Friday and Saturday. The university authorities had cancelled the test midway in June after they discovered that the questions had leaked. A security officer in [...]
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Operator of the NNPC/SHELL /TEPN/AGIP Joint Venture) Scholarship Scheme offers first year students in all Nigerian universities the opportunity to study with an annual grant from the SPDC JV for the full duration of their course. The programme aims to promote academic excellence and improve the skills-base [...]
Academic activities have resumed in the three tertiary institutions in Katsina State following the suspension of strike recently embarked upon by their staff. Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Muktar El-Kassim, told journalists that the union suspended the strike following intervention by the state government. “We met with the governor and he approved [...]
According to an official notice from the management of Obafemi Awolowo University the school has postponed the commencement of its Rain Semester. Further our earlier notice in the circular reference number RO.2/Vol. V/472 of 20th of July 2012 on the Postponement of Resumption for the Rain Semester of 2011/2012 Session, this is to inform all [...]
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State said it has killed two suspects and arrested 26 others who were responsible for the killing of two Indians at a Gum Arabic Factory in Maiduguri on Wednesday. JTF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said in a statement in Maiduguri yesterday that the suspects were responsible for [...]
THE Lagos State Government has recruited graduates without teaching qualifications to teach core subjects in its secondary schools, Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, said, yesterday. In a statement, the commissioner declared that the recruitment of single-subject graduates was aimed at providing jobs for unemployed youths and repositioning education standard in the state. She said [...]
A South Korean student plans to launch a $500 satellite built from scavenged parts in a basement, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. “Making a satellite is no more difficult than making a cellphone,” said Song Hojun, 34, who said he built the OpenSat to show people they could achieve their dreams. There’s a long history [...]
OSUN State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has jerked up the monthly allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) posted to the state from N3,500 to N5,000. Meanwhile, no fewer than 22 rural electrification projects allegedly abandoned in various communities by the immediate past administration have been completed and awaiting commissioning in Osun State. [...]
The Nigerian army on Thursday took a step further in its fight against terrorism with the unveiling and presentation of vehicle stoppers to some churches and mosques. This is seen as part of its corporate social responsibility in curtailing the spate of suicide bombing at worship centres in parts of the north. The Chief of [...]
The former Lawmaker and outlandish wordsmith has lent his grammatical voice to the recent death of Ghana’s President Atta Mills. Read his comments below and let us know what you think; President Professor John Evans Atta Mills’ passing on is a mere ephemeral recumbent hibernation; an empyrean paradisiac rendezvous lies ahead. Heaven is the terminus. [...]
Rodney Dwayne Valentine on Saturday morning was granted freedom at the Rockingham County jail in northern North Carolina, but when he refused to leave the prison the police arrested him for trespassing and sent him back to the prison. Valentine reportedly refused to leave the prison as a result of authorities declining his request for [...]
The Federal Government is working on a new pay structure for the Nigeria Police, to boost the morale of policemen and officers. This was stated by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 9, Mr. Solomon Olusegun, on Thursday in Awka, during a visit to the Anambra State Police Command. He said the [...]
A large number of staff of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, yesterday, protested the conversion of the hospital to one of the campuses of the proposed Oyo State University, Ibadan, by Governor Abiola Ajimobi. The former governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, sited the hospital of the university jointly-owned by Oyo and Osun states in [...]
