By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has called on the general public to disregard Doctor of Medical Laboratory Science (DMLS) programme in any university in the country, saying it is not approved. The commission, which disclosed this in a statement signed by its Acting Director...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the establishment of the Abdulsalami Abubakar University of Agriculture and Climate Action in Mokwa, Niger State. The announcement was conveyed in a letter addressed to Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, dated December 2, 2024. The acting...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has announced the appointment of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) for the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC). The President in a statement on Friday by his Special Adviser, Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada, have partnered to tackle the challenges of graduate employability and entrepreneurial skills development. Speaking at a three-day Stakeholders Capacity Workshop in Abuja on Thursday, the NUC Acting Executive Secretary, Chris Maiyaki, urged...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – No fewer than 41 Students graduated with first class from the Federal University Lokoja, (FUL) Kogi State. This was disclosed by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Olayemi Akinwumi at the main campus of the ivory tower on Monday. The VC added that...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government has directed the exclusion of third-party research grant funds of federal universities and research institutions from the Treasury Single Account. In a letter from the National Universities Commission (NUC)to Vice Chancellors, dated 6th September 2024 and made available to newsmen on...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, Kogi, full approval to run Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) ,LL.B. Law and four other programmes. The other four programmes that received the nod of the commission included Physiotherapy, Radiography, Agriculture and...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has identified poor governance, academic corruption and inadequate funding as some of the critical issues affecting tertiary education in Nigeria. The Acting Executive Secretary of the NUC, Chris Maiyaki, made this statement during the 2024 Registry Lecture at Babcock University, Ilishan, on Tuesday....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – National Universities Commission (NUC) has issued a letter of recognition for the establishment of Kwara State University of Education, Ilorin, to the Governor of the State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. Acting Executive Secretary of NUC, Mr. Chris Maiyaki, presented the letter to AbdulRazaq, who was...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given full accreditation for all the take-off academic programmes of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, Kogi State. A statement signed by Registrar of CUSTECH, Ms. Olufunke Hudson, said the full accreditation status highlights the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government has directed outgoing vice chancellors in federal universities to nominate their deputies to temporarily serve as acting vice chancellors. This was conveyed by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in a letter to the outgoing vice chancellors, which was dated May...
ASUU wants Tinubu to intervene in its demands The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on President Bola Tinubu to look into the yearnings of the union to reposition the nation’s tertiary institutions. The union decried the neglects of its demands by the past administrations, saying the...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman has pledged to flush out persons in public and private organisations working with fake certificates. Mamman made this known while speaking in Abuja on Friday when he received the report of an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling from the...
No fewer than 931 staff of Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education across West Africa have graduated from an intensive 13-week training on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Speaking to newsmen at the end of the graduation ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Prof. Emeritus Peter Okebukola, said...
President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration will continue to promote the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) to improve access to higher education in the country. Tinubu gave the assurance at the 13th Convocation and Investiture of the third Chancellor of the National Open University of...
The Management of the Plateau University, Bokkos, has denied allegation making the rounds that the National Universities Commission (NUC) was planning to shut down the institution. The Registrar of the University, Mr Yakubu Ayuba, denied the allegation in a statement on Sunday in Jos. The News Agency of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – National Universities Commission (NUC), on Monday, said less than 10 per cent of the two million students in the Nigerian universities are enrolled in private universities. According to the commission, there are 149 private varsities in the country. The acting Executive Secretary, NUC,...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has rewarded 50 first class graduating students of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) N500,000= each, as well as a one-month skills acquisition training at the Wing Commander Abdullahi Ibrahim Vocational and Technical Institute in Lafia. Gov. Sule,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Education Minister, Prof Tahir Mamman has directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to expedite action towards the completion of the Nuclear Energy Curriculum to enable some Nigerian Universities and the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission as well as Polytechnics to commence the training of Nuclear...