Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, has said that the country must either provide the resources to continue to mandate participation in the National Youth Service Corps scheme or otherwise make it voluntary. Jega made the statement during his address at the Opening Ceremony of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of […]
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Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in Canada are planning a walkout on 1 May to protest against stagnant government-funded salaries. Edugist source in Canada reveals. Recall that since 2003, salaries have remained the same, while there has been a 50% inflation rate over the same period, according to Sarah Laframboise, a biochemistry PhD student at
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has supported a graduate with a fund to start a business. The presidential candidate disclosed this on Saturday March 4, 2023 via his verified Twitter handle. Obi revealed that he had fulfilled his pledge to assist a graduate, Gimba Sophia Emmanuel, in her aspiration to acquire
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has challenged graduates under the Graduate Internship Programme to prove their mettle at their various places of internship. The Gov stressed that they should not be contented with the monthly N40,000 stipend given by the State Government but aim for a higher goal of being financially independent. Speaking at
An Ibadan-born graduate of the University of Ibadan, Rabiat Akande, has won a Harvard prize for her PhD dissertation which was titled Navigating Entanglement: Contestations over Religious-State Relations in British Colonial Northern Nigeria c. 1890-1977. The dissertation was based on the significance of religion in the Nigeria. Rabiat is an all-round successful academic, as she
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The School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos – University of First Choice and the Nation’s Pride, a leading, reputable first generation institution for postgraduate education and research in Africa, situated in the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, hereby invites applications from suitably qualified candidates from recognized institutions for admission into Postgraduate programmes of the
On Friday July 18th, I boarded a night bus for the first time in my life. I was very apprehensive given the bad state of our roads and the activities of men of the underworld. The risk associated with travelling by road for 10 long hours and the resources I would expend in the process
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As we know, majority of Nigerian graduates are in the streets, busy looking for miracle jobs. Some students don’t want to graduate for fear of the supposedly bleakness outside, and of concern is; our educational system is not well structure to instil in people appropriate employability skills and self-reliance. As one who studies, teach, and
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