About 460 students benefited from the 2022 Dangote Scholarship Award Programme in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, on Wednesday. The Executive Director, Dangote Group, Mr Edwin Devakumar, said 443 secondary schools and 17 tertiary institutions benefited from the scholarship programme aimed at improving the quality of education in Ibeju-Lekki communities. According...
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By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Lafia – It was a black Thursday night for the students of Nasarawa State University Keffi, as armed robbers stormed the community and collected their belongings at gun point. The robbers, who were over forty in numbers attacked the students in their different compounds behind former...
By EMEKA CHIKWE, Port-Harcourt – The management of Rivers State University (RSU) has banned ‘indecent dressing’ by students on its campus with immediate effect. The Registrar of the institution, Dr Sydney Enyindah announced the ban in a statement issued on Friday in Port-harcourt. Enyindah listed items considered indecent on...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the disbursement of bursary allowances to over 8,000 students studying in different institutions of higher learning across the country for 2020/2021. Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Scholarship Board, Hajia Sa’adatu Yahaya, disclosed this, in a press briefing...
Some students and lecturers of tertiary institutions affected by the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the South East have expressed delight with the suspension of the strike. They made their feelings known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State Government is to upwardly review student Indigenes bursary award from five thousand naira to ten thousand naira. The state’s Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr. Afees Abolore- Alabi confirmed this while featuring on the 34th Edition Media Parliament organized by Kwara State Council...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members remained resolute to get what public universities need from the Federal Government to survive and compete globally. Prof. Ayo Akinwole, the Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, made the assertions on Monday in Ibadan. Akinwole said that lecturers...
Some students have appealed to Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve their differences, as they suggest Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to fund the university system. The students, who recounted losses caused by the six months strike by ASSU, continued to express serious concern about the...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – Security has been beef up within and around the premises of Bingham University in Karu, Abuja-Keffi Expressway, following an alleged rumour on social media that Boko Haram terrorists have earmarked the institution for possible attack. As a result of this, parents have started withdrawing...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – No fewer that eighty-eight thousand (88,000) students are taking part in the 2022 National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) certificate. The Chief Executive Officer of NABTEB, Ifeoma Isiugo Abanihe, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, while monitoring the 2022 NABTEB examinations at Federal...
Some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU). Some of the students in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to Federal Government to meet at least 50 per...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday after its National Executive Council meeting at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja. Prof. Osodeke said the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – Group Managing Director of African technology giant, SystemSpecs, John Obaro, has urged students to acquire skills and attitudes necessary to thrive in a more technologically advanced future. Delivering the guest lecture during the recently held 10th matriculation ceremony of McPherson University, Ogun State, Obaro...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Calabar chapter, has sensitised students of the institution over the planned strike by the union if the Federal Government fails to meet their demands. Dr John Edor, Chairman of the union in UNICAL, who organised a forum on Thursday in...
The Kebbi State Government says 30 students and a teacher of Federal Government College (FGC), Birnin Yauri, abducted by bandits last year, have regained their freedom. Malam Yahaya Sarki, the Special Adviser Media to Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, confirmed this in a statement made available to the...
A federal lawmaker, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, representing Taraba Southern Senatorial District in the National Assembly has awarded scholarships of N50,000 each to 520 students in his constituency. Bwacha made the presentation to the beneficiaries on Wednesday at the annual hosting of constituents in Donga Local government Area of Taraba....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) Chapter has threatened to join the ASUU National Secretariat planned nation wide strike if the Federal Government do not implement the negotiations jointly signed by both the Federal Government and ASUU National officials....
Mr Ededa Emmanuel, the 2018 best graduating student of the Kaduna State University(KASU) has called on students to be hardworking and disciplined in order to achieve academic success. Emmanuel, 23, who bagged a first class in Micro Biology with a CGPA of 4.97, made the call during an interview...
The Ekiti State University (EKSU) has said that some of its students affected by a recent fees scam flouted its directive on the mode of payment of fees. Mr Bode Olofinmuagun, the institution’s Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs, made the clarification in a statement on Monday in...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has increased registration fees for school candidates for West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) from N13,950 to N18,000, beginning from 2022. WAEC Head of National Office (HNO), Mr Patrick Areghan, made this known while announcing the release of results of the 2021...