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The strike action embarked upon by lecturers at the Plateau State University, Bokkos, has been suspended. The strike which began on January 15, 2021, had paralyzed activities at the institution for nearly two months, a development that prompted the state government to constitute a committee to look into the matter. The Chairman of the ... Read more

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Tuesday said some tertiary institutions assisted fake graduates to mobilise for the National Youth Service Corps programme. According to him, most of the illegitimate mobilisation for the NYSC is perpetrated in collaboration with the students’ affair ... Read more

Academic activities at the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti , were on Tuesday disrupted by protesting lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the lecturers were protesting against the alleged refusal of the institution management to meet their demands. NAN reports ... Read more

Nile University of Nigeria recently gained approval from the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence 19 new undergraduate and postgraduate programs for the 2020/2021 academic session. The programs are as follows: B.Sc. Architecture, B.Sc. Cyber Security, B.Sc. Psychology, BEng Mechatronics, B.Sc. Human Physiology, B.Sc. Human Anatomy, ... Read more

A 400-level student of the Department of Political Science, University of Benin, Austin Izu, has been shot dead by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in his friend’s off-campus hostel room on the Federal Girls College Road, Ugbowo. PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased, who sat his final examination last week, was alleged to have come from ... Read more

The Federal University, Dutsin-ma, Katsina State, has suspended four students indefinitely over alleged membership of a secret cult. The affected students are Peter Enajo (MSc Sociology), Lukman Aminu (BSc Computer Science), Musa Halidu (BSc Sociology) and Maikosa Victor Lawal (BSc Sociology). The institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Armayau ... Read more

…Affected students may forfeit admission to higher institutions By Wole Mosadomi For failure to pay examination fees of its students National Examination Council, NECO, has withheld results of the over 30,000 students of Niger State. Following this development, affected students risk forfeiting their admissions into higher ... Read more

THE Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, and the National Parents Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have proffered solutions to the incessant abduction of students by bandits in some parts of the country. Speaking in separate interviews with our correspodent, the two groups called on the federal and state governments to entrench the Safe ... Read more

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has uncovered various forms of malpractice perpetrated by candidates in the just concluded 2020/2021 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post- UTME) aptitude test. The deployment of technology in remote format in the conduct of the examination led to this discovery. Although 21,955 candidates who ... Read more

The Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) has been ranked the best one Polytechnic in Nigeria in the latest edition of webometrics ranking released in January. The College has moved up on the Webometrics ranking quickly in the past three years. It was ranked seventh in 2018 and within one year moved to second position, and the first ... Read more