NUC approves two universities for NTI PGDE affiliation

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted the National Teachers' Institute (NTI) approval for the affiliation of its Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programme...

Librarians deserve academic status, veteran librarian says

Veteran librarian, Jonathan Dipeolu has advocated academic status for professional librarians. He was the Keynote lecturer at the maiden...

ASUU faults Aisha on proposed Muhammadu Buhari University

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has taken disagreed with a proposed plan to establish a private university to be named...

EFCC detains Jonathan’s associate, Turner over UBEC ‘fake contracts’

King Turner, a very close associate of former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over...

48 ABU First class students bag Chinese govt scholarship

Forty-Eight potential first class students of Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria, on Tuesday got a scholarship from the People’s Republic of China. News Agency of...

‘Attaining peace starts with peace education’

Early in April, about 700 people from various sectors in the society such as educators, leaders of politics and religions, women and...

OAU student ‘commits suicide’ over academic failures

A student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Kolapo Olowoporoku has reportedly committed suicide after repeatedly failing some courses. Mr Olowoporoku who could have graduated two...

Multiple registration inflates number of candidates by 30% – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said, that multiple registration has inflated the number of candidates registered candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation...

JAMB cancels two CBT centres’ results over ‘irregularities’

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed the cancellation of results of the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from two...

Anthony Asiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge

Emeritus Professor Anthony Asiwaju will, on 27th April, 2019 clock 80. In this piece, Professor Toyin Falola pays a tribute to the...