Forty-one students of the Benson Idahosa University (BIU), in Edo State will graduate with First Class honours during the 2014/2015 graduation on Saturday. This is out of a total of 871 graduands that would be awarded first and post graduate degrees. Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Ernest Izevbigie, who disclosed this at a press […]
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The Rivers State University, RSU, has urged the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETfund to extend its interventions to intangible needs of universities such as Optic Fibre for provision of internet that will develop the university system. Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Barineme Fakae, who disclosed this recently to a team of journalists monitoring TETFund
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The authorities of the Wesley University of Science and Technology, Ondo State, have sent students of the institution on a forced holiday following a strike embarked upon by lecturers of the school. The university founded by the Methodist Church of Nigeria reportedly owes the lecturers 21 months salaries. It was gathered that the lecturers’ strike
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THE National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) has concluded a training workshop for examiners, assessors and supervisors on how to provide comprehensive and sound assessment system for medical and dental students across the country. With over 400 examiners, trainers and consultants in attendance, the train-the-trainer’s workshop, which held in Lagos, aimed at enhancing the
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CONCERNED with what it refers to as stifling of unionism and academic freedom by authorities at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter, has warned it’s members against taking part in external supervision of academic activities at the former. The chairman of ASUU, UNILAG chapter,
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The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday urged legal professionals to reform and renovate the law profession in the country to meet international standards. Osinbajo made the call at the inauguration ceremony of the Ultra Modern Sir Adetokunbo Ademola Dinning Hall of the Law School, Lagos. The hall was remodeled and refurbished by the
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AS part of measures to curb the rising spate of insurgency and other violent crimes in the country, the National Association of Royal Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NARTN) has called on the Federal Government to approve the introduction of military training for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to enable them complement the
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Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal, has perfected arrangements to criminalise parents’ refusal to send their children to school in the state. If a bill presented by the governor before the state House of Assembly is eventually passed into law, parents who refuse to give their children or wards formal education will be committing a criminal
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