WAEC releases 2021 private candidates’ results
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced the results of the 2021 first series of the WASSCE for private candidates.
The Council’s Head of...
Five of 39 Kaduna college abductees released
Five of the 39 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State abducted by bandits were reported to have regained freedom, barely a month after the...
Lagos to increase police surveillance around schools
Lagos to increase surveillance around schools
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has disclosed that plans are being concluded to double security surveillance around schools across the...
TETFund’s SERVICOM trains varsities, others on service delivery skills
Towards improved service delivery in public Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has organised a workshop for the institutions’ Nodal Officers and...
ASUU blames outgoing AAU VC for prolonged strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma chapter, has called on the students and parents of the institution as well as the people...
Vice-chancellors and trends of embarrassing ‘accomplishments’
I am embarrassed that my colleagues, Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, are mimicking the tropes and templates often deployed by politicians to talk about their "accomplishments" in office.
Recently,...
NUC approves MBBS for FUTA
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted approval to the Federal University of Technology, Akure to run Medicine and Surgery, MBBS.
This was contained in...
JAMB clampdowns fraudulent cybercafes, tutorial centres
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has vowed to clampdown on some cybercafes and tutorial centres alleged to have specialised in defrauding unsuspecting candidates during registration for...
IAUE loses first female vice-chancellor
The pioneer and first female Vice-Chancellor of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, River state, Professor Rosemund Dienye Green-OsahOgulu has passed on.
Green-OsahOgulu, who died on...
UNILAG don wins $2.5m Gates research grant
A professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Lagos, Bosede Afolabi, has emerged as recipient of a $2.5m research grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates...
























