Amidst the prevailing security challenges in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, students of the University of Maiduguri go about their academic activities. If any fear is experienced, it is among students who live off campus. They have to contend with the challenges of finding their way to school due to heavy traffic caused by many [...]
Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) said it will demand salary increment by July in accordance to an agreement with three university unions signed with Federal Government in 2009 which led to the suspension of a strike. SSANU, Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) under a Joint Action [...]
Indications emerged yesterday that over 809, 319 Almajiris in the South West geopolitical zone are to benefit from the education programme recently introduced by the Federal Government. Inaugurating a nine-member implementation committee, which will oversee the Almajiri education in Ekiti State, Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Modupe Adelabu said the [...]
Government Secondary School (GSS) Jiwa, Abuja, last Thursday defeated over 30 secondary schools in the territory to win the FCT Secondary Schools debate competition organized by HIIT computer firm in the premises of Nigeria Television Authority Channel 5 Station, Abuja. The three participants who won the trophy, Daniel Emeye, Chukwudi Asonye and Esther Ugwoke were [...]
THE late Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, Yaba, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, will be interred on May 31 at the Vault and Gardens, Ikoyi, Lagos. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics and Research), and Chairman of the burial committee, Prof. Babajide Alo, at a briefing on the burial programme, said: “His body will lie-in-state on campus between 8 [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on professors and other academics in the country to ensure a drastic change in the quality of graduates produced by tertiary institutions in the country. Speaking today through his Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Senator Joy Emodi, the president said the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act 2012 increasing the [...]
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, ruled himself out from attending Osaze Odemwengie’s wedding next month. Keshi will announce his squad Friday for the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Namibia and Rwanda on June 3 and 15 respectively and is not likely that Odemwengie will be one of the players that will [...]
STUDENTS of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, went on the rampage yesterday and vandalised no fewer than 50 vehicles including that of the Provost, Professor Adeyemi Idowu, over alleged mysterious death of no fewer than 20 of their colleagues in the last one month. Also, 19 students of a secondary school in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, [...]
Obviously tired of spending about 10 years at the Benue State University, BSU, without graduation due to non-accreditation of their courses, medical students of the university, yesterday, staged a peaceful demonstration in Makurdi, calling on both the school authorities and the state government to come to their rescue. This is coming on heels of the [...]
Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi has again declared 100% effort and commitment to Nigeria ahead of a hectic month of qualifiers. Mikel told MTNFootball.com he will be available for all the Super Eagles qualifiers against Namibia, Malawi and Rwanda, if picked by coach Stephen Keshi. Nigeria host Namibia in a 2014 World Cup qualifier on June [...]
A total of 81,565 candidates sat for this year’s National Common Entrance Examination into Federal Government Unity Colleges and Federal Science and Technical Colleges nationwide. The Registrar, National Examinations Council, NECO, Prof Promise Nwachukwu Okpala, disclosed this weekend, after an unscheduled inspection of some examination centres in Owerri. He said that Lagos State topped the [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed sadness over the sudden demise of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Olatokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, who died at the weekend at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Equally, authorities of the institution, have declared a three-day mourning in honour of Sofoluwe. Jonathan who recalled the accomplishments of the [...]
The International Development Department, University of Birmingham, is pleased to announce that the Mo Ibrahim Foundation is providing one scholarship for our MSc in Governance and State-building, to start in September 2012. The scholarship will be for a two-year programme, with the successful candidate undertaking the full MSc programme and then six months within the [...]
Scholarship Name: Ashesi and MasterCard Foundation University Scholarships Brief description Ashesi University College, Accra, Ghana is offering Up to 40 Undergraduate Scholarships for Students from Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria for the 2012/2013 academic year Accepted Subject Areas? The University currently offers first degree programs in Business Administration, Computer Science and Management Information Systems [...]
Hoodlums suspected to be armed robbers have killed a 400-level student of Federal University of Technology, Minna, for daring to stop them from robbing a female student yesterday in Minna. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the incident occurred about 3:00 am at Zarumai ward, Minna when the robbers were trying to rob a female student. It [...]
AUTHORITIES of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has approved the appointment of the institution’s sixth substantive Vice Chancellor, Professor Adebiyi Daramola. The appointment was made at the special meeting of the Institution’s Governing Council. Prof Daramola was born on March 2, 1958 and had his secondary education at Anglican Grammar School, Ile-ife and [...]
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) on Saturday expressed shock and disbelief at the sad news of the passing away of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe. He describing the sudden death as a personal loss to him. The University of Lagos Dean of Students’ Affairs, Professor Kayode [...]
The Nigerian academic community was yesterday morning thrown into mourning following the death of the Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe. In a telephone conversation with Sunday Vanguard, the Dean, Students’ Affairs, Professor Kayode Amund, said Sofoluwe, 62, who was in his second year of his five-year tenure, had a [...]
The American University of Nigeria (AUN) gives the opportunity for prospective undergraduate students. Please be informed that to qualify for the AUN scholarship examination taking place on May 26th, 2012 you must meet the following requirements: – A minimum JAMB score of 245 on the latest sitting. – 4 A’s (preferably in English language and [...]
Getting your CV right is a very important step in getting your next job as a Graduate. The CV acts as your representative in absentia and has to be simple, easy to read and at the same time contain just the right information to impress the employers. A survey has shown that getting the right [...]
The Minister of Education, professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Alkali has described the problem in the University of Abuja as system failure which the Federal Government will soon tackle. The minister, who stated this at the ministerial briefing marking the first year anniversary of the Jonathan administration, said the system failure was responsible for the continuation of [...]
STUDENTS of Delta State School of Health Technology, Ofuoma-Ughelli, yesterday, went on rampage over non- payment of their yearly allowance of N104,000. The students were also protesting a N10,000 levy for computer training, N6,000 levy for sports and N4,500 for school uniform and the monthly allowance of N5,000 being paid to 300 level students of [...]
Chairman of the Implementation Monitoring Committee of the 2009 Agreement between the Federal Government and University-based unions, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), has assured of the commitment of the federal government to fully implement the agreement. Babalakin, who doubles as the Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, gave this assurance at the inauguration of the [...]
In spite of the Lagos State Government’s claims that it is open for negotiations with the sacked doctors, the affected doctors resident in official quarters, on Thursday, received eviction notices to vacate their residences. Signed, May 8, 2012, the letter ordered the doctors to vacate their official residences with immediate effect. “Consequent upon your dismissal [...]
Nigerians using or trading in used television and radio sets, popularly called Tokunbo, have been asked to prepare to change them or change their trade before 2015 when a new law banning importation of the items will begin. The Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr Yomi Bolarinwa, broke the news yesterday in Ibadan, [...]
