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Mrs Mercy Bamai, the Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in Ebonyi, says that no corps member deployed to the state test positive for COVID-19. Bambi made the disclosure on Monday at its permanent orientation camp, Afikpo, during the swearing-in ceremony of the ... Read more

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Anambra says one prospective corps member in Anambra has been diagnosed of possible case of COVID-19 . Mr Kehinde Aremu, Coordinator of the scheme said this on Monday during the swearing in of 800 members of 2020 Batch ‘B’ stream ... Read more

Ogun Government is partnering with telecommunications service providers to provide free internet service to students for e-learning in public secondary and primary schools in the state. Gov. Dapo Abiodun disclosed this on Monday at the 2020 International Students’ Day, held at the Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta. The governor said that ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Federal Government of deliberate plans to prolong the ongoing strike. In a statement by Coordinator, ASUU Lagos Zone, Prof. Olusiji Sowande, the union alleged the slow pace of negotiations with government was an indication that government had no intention to end the over ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday said it has not fixed another examination for any category of candidates on July 3 as being peddled in some quarters. The board’s Head of Media and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that the report “is not ... Read more

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is offering 424 scholarship slots for Nigerian students to study various courses in Saudi universities. It said the slots are part of the 6,597 scholarship the kingdom distributes annually to African students. According to a statement on Monday from the Saudi embassy in Abuja, 150 slots are also given to ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State branch has called on the state governor Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, and other stakeholders in the state to save the institution from collapsing. The union said the university was suffering from under-funding and needed the state government to, as a matter ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, Adamawa State University Mubi, Prof. Kaletapwa Farauta, has called for the setting up of a reconstruction fund that will assist in the rebuilding of educational institutions destroyed as a result of Boko Haram insurgency. Farauta made the call at a TETFUND meeting with heads of tertiary institutions in the North-East ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Ondo State, Prof. Sunday Ogunduyile, has warned the new students of the institution to shun all acts capable of making them lose their studentship of the university. Ogunduyile said the school had zero tolerance for indiscipline and anti-social behaviour, ... Read more

ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has cried over non payment of salaries to members by the government, advising lecturers to immediately seek alternative means of survival This was as it vowed to press home its demands until government bows, asking students and parents not to ... Read more