Educational

The University of Ilorin has granted a 25 per cent school fees rebate to children of its staff members The rebate was approved by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Wahab Egbewole, SAN, following a meeting with university-based union leaders on Thursday.   ...

The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi has been shut down following students’ protest, Mr Zailani Bappa, Director, Directorate of Information and Public Relations, announced on Monday. Bappa, who announced the closure at a news conference in Bauchi, said that ...

The Vice Chancellor, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Prof. Florence Obi, has directed that the new fees introduced by the institution be put on hold until further notice The directive is contained in a statement issued by UNICAL’s Registrar, Mr Gabriel ...

Academic activities were halted at the University of Calabar on Monday following students’ protests against the 100 per cent hike in the institution’s tuition fees Earlier, the university had released a new schedule of fees that would take effect in ...

Nollywood actress, Jumoke Odetola has expressed gratitude to God following the completion of her Master’s Degree She took to her Instagram page to share photos from her graduation ceremony writing; ”Congratulations to me. MBA …checked✅️ Started well, finished successfully. Thank God for ...

The father of late Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College, Lekk Lekki, Lagos, who died in controversial circumstances, on Wednesday wept over the delayed justice for his son The late Oromoni Jnr had reportedly died on November 30, ...

Miss Enitan Subair, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), who completed a record-breaking wash-a-thon in early hours of Monday, is bubbling with excitements of the applause that have greeted her courageous task Subair, a 200-level student of Linguistics and ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said the registration for its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, begins on January 15, 2024 and ends on February 16, 2024 Similarly, the board, in a statement on Wednesday, said it ...

Police arrest three out of armed robbers who shot and ra.ped Ogun Poly students The Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested three persons in connection with the alleged robbery and ra.pe of some students of Gateway ICT Polytechnic, ...

Gabriel Afolayan also bags doctorate degree It is raining doctorate degrees for Nigerian celebrities. Actor Gabriel Afolayan is the latest celebrity to bag a doctorate degree. He was awarded alongside Lateef Adedimeji with a Doctor of Philosophy in Arts and Culture from Estam University. ...

Nollywood actor, Lateef Adedimeji has bagged Doctorate degree He was honored with a Doctor of Philosophy from International University, Estam University. Sharing video from the award ceremony on his Instagram page, he wrote; ”I was moved to tears as I got adorned ...

The University of Ilorin has said its male members of staff will now enjoy paternity leave This was made known by the university’s Registrar, Mr Mansur Alfanla, on Monday, while addressing newsmen. He noted that the development followed the just ...

433 foreign-trained doctors fail MDCN qualifying exam No fewer than 433 out of the 836 foreign-trained medical graduates who sat the qualifying examination organised by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria failed. The qualifying examination was held at the ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has indicated that the Federal Government is considering reintroducing the Policy of University Full Autonomy to promote progress and minimize external impediments. This decision is consistent with the government’s belief that university autonomy allows institutions to develop ...

Isreal DMW has said women have started asking him for marriage, following his marriage crash Isreal an aide to Davido shared the DM which sees ladies asking him to marry them, since his wife has left him. Recall Israel confirmed his ...

Universities in Nigeria are battling a severe shortage of staff as thousands of lecturers leave the tertiary institutions to seek greener pastures in foreign lands amid the high number of retirements at the varsities The Academic Staff Union of Universities ...

Having an affair is good for your marriage, according to a new study A poll of 1,400 self-confessed love cheats found that 72% said their relationship with their hubby or wife had “improved dramatically” since they started an affair. A ...

The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), says its registration for the 2023/24 Post-UTME screening exercise which started on November 23 will end on December 3. Mr Mansur Alfanla, Registrar of the University, said in a press statement on Friday that the ...

  Police arrest two Benue varsity graduates over alleged swapping of ATM cards Operatives of the Nigeria Police, Niger State Command, have arrested two suspects who claimed to be graduates of Educational Technology, Benue State University over allegation of being ...

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal has announced that it will suspend licences for private educators within its jurisdiction and declared a state of emergency on education Speaking in a state-wide broadcast on Tuesday, Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, bemoaned “the neglected ...

Big Brother Reality star, Chukwuemeka Okoye aka Frodd has been awarded with a honourary doctorate degree in business management The excited father of one took to his Instagram to celebrate the new prize as he reintroduced himself as “DR Chukwuemeka ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked its members to join the nationwide strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, gave the directive ...

A 400L Petrochemical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Damian Okoligwe, has been remanded in prison custody over the murder of his girlfriend Damian has been accused of killing her some weeks back. He was arraigned ...

The Director of SERVICOM at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) Professor Patrick Egaga was on Sunday night kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at the University staff quarters Prof. Egaga who is a professor at the Department of Special Education at the University ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that it will migrate its WASSCE for Private Candidates Examination Diets from paper and pencil tests to Computer Based Examination (CBE) WAEC, in a statement by its spokesperson, Moyosola F. Adesina, on ...