The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola , has approved the appointment of Professor Bashir Adekunle Okesina , Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University(UNIOSUN). Okesina, a Chemical Pathologist, was born on October 11, 1954. He graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in1980 from the University of Lagos in [...]
INDICATION has emerged that Ogun State government may have delisted the first University of Education, Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, from the list of its tertiary institutions. Vanguard gathered that the government removed TASUED from the list of state-owned tertiary institutions as contained in the 2013 diary of the state. In the diary, the [...]
Rivers State House of Assembly has intervened in the crisis rocking Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Port Harcourt, following the alleged hard stance of the management of the university over late tuition fees payment by students. It will be recalled that tension had risen when the school authorities insisted that students who [...]
THE Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has emerged winners of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Imperial Barrel Award competed by African universities. The university came first, scoring 79.33 percent, while Helwan University, Egypt and the Federal University of Technology, Akure came second and third respectively. Eight universities in Nigeria participated in the competition, including Federal [...]
Nigerian dignitaries who were to play a major role at a programme of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, on Monday, absented themselves from the programme, causing a major re-organisation at the event. The dignitaries that were absent include the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi; [...]
The authorities of Ekiti State University, have expelled five students for allegedly raping female students, Vanguard reports. The school said the alleged rapists had been earlier tried and found guilty by the disciplinary committee of the institution. Names of the expelled students according to the statement are, Babalola Adedotun Kolawole, Omoteye Olalekan Olamide, Bamigboye Biola [...]
Tragedy struck yesterday in Okesa area of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital as two undergraduates who were riding on a motorcycle were killed by a Tipper lorry. The victims, who hailed from Emure Ekiti, were identified as Ebenezer Ayoade, a final year Marketing student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, while Ajayi Kayode was [...]
The Federal Government on Thursday commenced construction of buildings worth N3.4 billion in three faculties at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, laid the foundation stone of the projects in Port Harcourt. Wike said the projects were the Faculty of Law and the Department of Animal [...]
No fewer than four university students in Ogun State were, Wednesday, arraigned before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly belonging to a secret cult, known as “Alora Buccaneer” and forceful initiation of new students into the cult. The accused persons, Damilola Animashaun (20), Olakunle Kelani (20), Oluwatobi Anifowose (18) and Kazeem Amusa (18) who were [...]
All is now set for the start of the Institute of Maritime Studies (IMS) initiated by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in September this year, the Director General of the agency, Mr. Ziakede Akpobolokemi, has said. An initiative of Akpobolokemi, IMS, which is meant to boost manpower capacity in the maritime sector [...]
After so many criticisms and appeals on the expulsion of over 120 students from Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State for not attending a university assembly, the Management of the institution led by Bishop David Oyedepo has agreed to reduce their punishment to 4 weeks suspension. DailyPost gathered that several groups including parents, lawyers and National [...]
Niger State Commissioner of Transport, Abubakar Mohammad, says the state government has allocated four kilometer size of land to the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) for the construction of its outreach campus in Minna, the state capital. The commissioner told newsmen in Minna at the weekend that the land was allocated to the college [...]
About 200 students may have been expelled by the authorities of Covenant University, Cannanland, Ota, Ogun State, recently for what was described as “disregard of paramount core values.” Frustrated and angered by the development, some of the affected students who gave account of what happened battled emotions while narrating their situations to Saturday Vanguard recently. [...]
This is to inform the general public and all applicants that the list of successful candidates for 2012/ 2013 Provisional Admission into various degree programmes of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi has been released. Concern Candidates may click on any of the underlisted faculty to view the admission lists or visit Nassarawa State University website [...]
All is now set for the full commencement of academic session at the Yola campus of the Nigeria Law School (NLS) by January next year with 200 students, Director General of the school Dr. Tahir Mamman has said. Speaking to Daily Trust in Yola yesterday, the DG said registration of new students will commence in [...]
Lecturers at the three tertiary institutions owned by the Katsina State government under the auspices of the Joint Consultative Forum (JCF) have threatened to embark on an indefinite strike from December 23, 2012, if the state government fails to settle their demands. A statement signed by the JCF’s chairman, Alhaji Tukur Dahiru Bakiyawa, said indefinite [...]
Two oldest students of the International Institute of Journalism, Abuja have been presented with the University of Maiduguri scholarship. In a statement from the institute, the awardees include Alhaji Halilu A. Kado and Mrs. Otu L. Mbua. They were given N100,000 each for defying age to achieve their academic dreams. Speaking during the presentation, the [...]
According to our sources, a female student was expelled yesterday for giving a colleague a ‘blowjob’. The picture was said to have been stolen from the young man’s phone by his friends and it is being spread all over the internet. Shortly after, it reached the VC of Bowen University who in turn took necessary [...]
Students of the Benue State University College of Health Sciences have apologized to the Vice Chancellor and the Senate of the university over their recent protests. This move was made in a letter signed by the Benue State University Medical Students’ Association (BESUMSA), President, Kawen Pededo and Secretary General, Evaristus Antiev and addressed to the [...]
University of Jos, UNIJOS, has gone tough against indecent dressing with a warning that improperly dressed students will be arrested by the institution’s security men. Vice Chancellor of the a university, Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, said at the matriculation of new students, yesterday, said indecently-dressed students were also to be prevented from attending lectures. He said: [...]
With a rekindled hope that authorities of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has promised to commence the building of male and female campus hostels to accommodate its teeming student populace, the students have urged the management to fulfill its promises by January 2013. Recall the Vice Chancellor, Prof. John Obafunwa, while addressing new students [...]
Addressing the matriculating students, Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Abdulmumuni Hassan Rafindadi, said the institution has zero tolerance for examination malpractice as well as cultism and other social vices. He urged the students to be dedicated to their studies. In his speech, the Minister of Education, Prof. Rukayat Ahmed Rufai, said the Federal Government [...]
Resumption procedures at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), have been crippled following the ongoing warning strike by members of two unions in compliance with the directives by their respective national offices. The NSUK chapters of Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), embarked on a one-week warning strike, last week, [...]
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has rolled out its pioneer dental surgeons since inception in 1960. Speaking at the swearing – in ceremony of the 13 dental surgeons at an event which held at the Rotary Hall of the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu campus, weekend, the deputy vice chancellor, Academic, Prof. [...]
The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Africa’s first development university, has just received a cash grant from the Internet giant Google to upgrade the University’s information technology infrastructure. The grant is part of Google’s effort to support sub-Saharan African Universities that are participating in its Google Apps Supporting Program (GASP). There are currently six universities [...]
