The recently-inaugurated Committee on the Status of Medical Education in Nigerian Universities has met with the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, to present to him an interim report on their assigned task. This is as the NUC…

The Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has given N630,000 as scholarship awards to the best returning National Diploma II and Higher National Diploma II students in the various departments as part of measures to motivate the newly admitted students to excel.…

A former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), on Saturday, donated a 500-capacity female hostel in the name of his wife, Daisy Danjuma, to the University of Benin. Inaugurating the storey building at the Ugbowo campus of the…

The Director General of the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, Ilorin, Issa Aremu, has warned trade unions in Nigerian universities against the total shutdown of tertiary institutions during strike. Aremu noted that there was a need for the…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday said it would commence the release of results of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Board on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. This was contained in the minutes of an emergency management meeting held on…

A total of 4,855 students on Saturday graduated from various disciplines from Delta State University, Abraka, with 58 of them emerging with Doctor of Philosophy. The graduands also comprised 339 Masters degree awardees as well as 199 others who received…

The Gombe State Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps, Ada Imoni, on Saturday inaugurated a camp court for the quick adjudication of Batch A Stream II corps members’ cases. The inauguration was done shortly after the day’s morning meditation at…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said a total of 250,000 candidates have yet to sit for the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.   Speaking on Friday evening after monitoring some of the centres in Lagos, including Ogba, Agidingbi,…

The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Friday, charged the new Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso, His Royal Majesty, Chidi Awuse, to raise the bar of the institution to a global standard.   The PUNCH reports that the state…

Initiative for Citizens’ Rights, Accountability and Development, a CSO, has urged the National Board for Technical Education, to investigate alleged illegal activities of Novelty Polytechnic, Kishi, Oyo State. The CSO, in a petition on Friday, alleged that the activities of…

The Lagos State Government has expressed its readiness to leverage the digital platforms provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund to reduce the challenge of out-of-school children in the rural communities The Director, Policy, Planning,Research and Statistics, Ministry of Education,Dr…

The Edo Government said it has distributed 3.3 million books to 848 primary and 306 junior secondary schools in the state. The state chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board, Mrs Ozavize Salami, disclosed this during the unveiling of the…

A consumer goods company, Procter & Gamble, has advised Nigerian students to take care of their oral health by brushing their teeth twice daily. A statement by P&G through its Oral-B brand said it collaborated with the Federal Ministry of…

The Federal Government College Kaduna Old Students’ Association has alleged that the Kaduna State Government is planning to excise 45 metres of land from the FGC Kaduna compound. The President, FGC Kaduna Old Students’ Association, Seyi Gambo, alleged that the…

Delta State University, Abraka, has announced a partnership with the National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelong and the Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research, Lagos “to use innovative and transformative aquaculture to bridge the huge gap between fish demand and…