Ever since she began her career in the Yoruba movie industry, and being given a role by Ibadan-based Wemimo Olu Paul film, she has made more headlines than some of her older and contemporary colleagues. Mercy Aigbe, born to Edo parents, the mother of two has been at no one’s mercy. Rather, many producers are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Few weeks ago, hundreds of angry students of the OBFO International Academy, Nsukka, Enugu State rained fire on their school located at Umuakashi Civic Centre. Their anger erupted like volcano on April 4 when final year students that paid for this year’s May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) discovered on the eve of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re happy to announce that Direct Entry Application for admission into 2012/2013 Session has commenced. The Direct Entry Programme also know as D.E. enables Diploma Certificate holders (ND,OND,NCE,HND) to study a related course in the University as a Degree Programme without having to write Jamb. However, in some schools, they may be required to sit [...]
The Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU) teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife and Ilesha has released the results of candidates who sat for an Entrance examination, into the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) teaching Hospital’s school of Nursing. The examination results for the candidates(OAUTHC) is now available at the website, and candidates are advised to proceed to check theirs, to know [...]
Owing to the fact that the University is ready to conduct her 2012/2013 Post Utme on 26th May, 2012, warranted the Registrar, Ayorinde O. Ogunruku to make it publicly known that access to the University website for normal registration for the Screening Exercise will remain open up till 12.00 midnight on Thursday, May 24, 2012. [...]
In this interview with SEGUN OLUGBILE, the Managing Director, Management Education and Training Limited, Lagos, Mr. Babatunde Omotoso, speaks about the challenges in the education sector and concludes that tuition should be introduced in public universities to arrest infrastructural deficit How will you react to calls that public universities should be self-sustaining by charging tuition? [...]
OWERRI – 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 [...]
LAGOS — President Goodluck Jonathan has joined the academic community in paying glowing tribute to the late Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe who died, Saturday. The President in a condolence message signed by his Special Adviser (Media & Publicity), Mr Reuben Abati, described the late Professor Sofoluwe as “an [...]
Distraught students of the Distance Learning Programme of the University of Abuja have decried what they described as an endless wait for their graduation. Many of the affected students are civil servants working in and around the Federal Capital Territory. Some of the students who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, [...]
We just confirmed the information that Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, the VC of the Great University of Lagos, Akoka Lagos is dead. Reports say that He died in the early hours of this morning after suffering cardiac arrest while sleeping. He was 62 years old. We, myschoolcomm team, console with the family and the Unilag [...]
The Director, Air Operations Naval Headquarters, Commodore Bamidupe Babagbale, has said that the Nigerian Navy will establish a training school in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. This was contained in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Abdulwahab Oba. Quoting Babagbale, the statement said the naval headquarters had trained pilots [...]
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 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 [...]
Chief Lance Momodu, the National President, AuchiPolytechinc Alumni Association, said on Monday that the association would build a N200 million lecture theatre for the institution. Momodu said in a statement, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent that the launching of an appeal fund for the lecture theatre project would take place [...]
THE VICE Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof Boniface Egboka, has advocated an increase in the carrying capacity of the institution, in view of the increasing number of candidates applying to study in the institution. Nnamdi Azikiwe University was the second most sought after institution in this year’s Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, examination, [...]
The ongoing strike by federal health workers at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, on Wednesday continued to take a toll on medical services. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) embarked on the strike on Monday to press home some demands. The demands include the [...]
