Educational

  The Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Malete, Professor Muhammed Akanbi (SAN), is reportedly dead. He was reported dead on Sunday night after a brief illness. Details of what led to his death were still sketchy as of the time ...

  Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said he went back to school to study Law just to fulfill his father’s wish to be a lawyer. But the former governor of Rivers State, who hinted that he would go ...

  A final-year student of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra, has committed suicide. A source said the incident happened on Friday at Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra. It was gathered ...

Immediate past Minister of Transportation and former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has graduated from Baze University, Abuja, with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Amaechi, a graduate in English, was among the 504 students who graduated during the university’s ...

  Twin brothers, Taiwo and Kehinde Sanuade, have graduated with first class degrees in Law from the University Of Ibadan. Taiwo shared photos from their convocation while expressing gratitude with honour to Jesus Christ for imparting, equipping them with wisdom ...

  Despite the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) protest against payment of alleged incomplete October salary, the Federal Government, on Wednesday, insisted it would not pay for works not done. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, expressed Federal Government’s ...

  The Abia State Police Command, has confirmed the death of two students of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike found stone dead in their hostel. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna who spoke with Vanguard in ...

The 13-year-old Nigerian-born Emmanuella Mayaki, has set a new record as one of the youngest persons to be accepted into a University in the U.S. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mayaki was accepted into the Programme for ...

  Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has promised to return missionary schools in the state to their original owners. Lalong made the promise when the Association of Papal Knights and Medalists in Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit at ...

  The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has announced automatic employment for 15 first-class graduating students of the Edo State University, Uzairue. Obaseki, who made the announcement at the fourth convocation ceremony of the institution in Etsako West Local Government ...

  With Elon Musk fully takin over twitter, former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is set to launch, Bluesky another social network app to rival Twitter. In the past 48 hours alone, 30,000 people have signed up for Bluesky. In this ...

The Federal Government has explained its reason for not paying full salaries to lecturers under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union has fixed an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting for Monday over the salary cut. ​In ...

Armed robbers have invaded the staff quarters of the University of Ibadan, killing Mr Vincent Odinko, an occupant of one of the buildings. The sad incident happened last Friday night, according to reliable sources. The night marauders broke into the ...

  Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of trying to break its ranks by selecting some medical lecturers for payment of their withheld salaries, while other academic staff are left unattended to. Specifically, the union ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has advised students to use the e-Naira platform to pay school fees and other payments. The advice came during a sensitization on e-Naira at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos. Director of, Information ...

  Legendary musician and first son of Afrobeat pioneer, Femi Kuti has relieved his childhood experience during a recent interview where he opened up on his growing up while in school. The saxophonist and Afrobeat star disclosed that he suffered ...

  Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho has bagged an honorary doctorate degree. The activist has been honored with the prestigious degree in Peace and Security Management/International Relations from Triune Biblical University, USA. More photos….    

  A 45-year-old primary school teacher has been arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old primary school pupil in Minna, Niger State. The accused, Musa Rabo, was said to have lured the teenager into one of the classes at Umaru Farouk Bahago ...

Two students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, were on Friday night kidnapped along a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Professor Adigun Agbaje. Vanguard reliably gathered that in the incident, which happened near Sat Guru Maharaji ...

A former deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the University of Ibadan, Professor Adigun Agbaje, has been kidnapped. The kidnappers who have contacted the family are asking for a sum of N50m as ransom. According to a report by the Foundation for ...

  A lecturer at the University of Ibadan, U.I, has become an internet sensation after allegedly giving $100 notes each to students who attended his first class after the ASUU strike, The lecturer reportedly had just 10 students in class ...

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Thursday launched its Digital Certificate platform in Lagos. The Head, National Office (HNO), Mr Patrick Areghan, in his welcome address at the unveiling of the platform, said that the development was to ...

  The Kogi State Polytechnic security operatives have arrested one Mr. Abimaje Shittu, a 25-year-old native of Egume, Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, for impersonating an Inspector of Police and possessing a misleading identification card. A statement issued ...

  ASUU Strike: Final Year Medical Student Turned Food Vendor Dies Usman Abubakar-Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), who ventured into food selling business due to the prolonged ASUU strike, has died. ...

A 30-second video clip showing the final moments of a former reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey, at a hospital in Lagos State, has attracted condemnation from members of the public. In the clip recorded by one of ...