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By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is—haq Oloyede, has accused some officials of his board and tertiary institutions for mobilising fake graduates for the mandatory national service. He said most of the illegal mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was done in ... Read more

Some students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta on Friday barricaded the main entrance of the school while protesting the failure of the management to mobilise them for the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The students who stormed the polytechnic as early as 8 am said the management was not doing anything to ... Read more

The Management of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, has released list of students expected to resume on campus on the 8th of March, 2021. OAU in a statement on its official Twitter handle said the first group of students will be allowed into the campus for their practical contents of their courses from 8th of March to 26th of ... Read more

Vice-Chancellor, Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, Nosa Owens-Ibie, is a professor of Communication, Media and Development. He talks to GRACE EDEMA about the newly-approved universities and the Nigerian media. Recently, 20 private universities were approved by the National Universities Commission; does the nation need the new additions as it has ... Read more

The Polytechnic Ibadan, on Monday, resumed academic activities for the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. A visit to the institution Monday morning by DAILY POST confirmed the resumption of the academic activities. Some of the students of the institution were seen by our correspondent using the South and other gates of the ... Read more

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is billed to deliver lecture at the maiden convocation of the Sokoto State University under the chairmanship of the Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Muhammad Bashar. The convocation lecture is slated for Friday at the university amphitheatre, while the award of bachelor’s degree, honorary doctorate degree and investiture ... Read more

The authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka have ruled out the possibility of conducting physical classroom lectures and examinations for students at this present time. The university said students would continue to have both their lectures and the tests as applicable online till it is safe to gather them on campus. The Deputy ... Read more

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology Offa, Adebisi Ademola, to six months imprisonment over his involvement in love scam. Ademola was among the 33 suspected internet fraudsters arrested on September 14, ... Read more

Thousands of potential students gathered at the International School of Lagos on Saturday to undergo the Scholarship Assessment Test, SAT, for admissions into schools in the United States of America.

After a lecturing career spanning 40 years, Prof. Chioma Agomo, who is the first female Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, bowed out on March 1 as she clocked 70 years. She speaks to OLADIMEJI RAMON about her childhood, career journey and related issues Your profile says you were born on March 1, 1951 at Nkpa, Abia State. ... Read more