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THE Federal University, Lokoja, FUL, has approved the appointment of Prof. Mike Ogirima, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery from the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, to kick-start the process for the take-off of its School of Medicine. Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Olatunde Akinwumi revealed this when the management team of the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) says the Buhari administration’s appointment of Rectors for six new polytechnics violates the Federal Polytechnics (Amendment) Act, 2019. Anderson Ezeibe, ASUP President in a statement on Sunday stressed that the appointees had no experience. Last week, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has resolved the technical glitches which informed its postponement of registration earlier in the month. DAILY POST recalls that the exam body on Thursday, last week, announced the suspension of the registration to integrate the use of the National Identification Number, NIN in its ... Read more

The ten Christian mission schools affected by the recent hijab controversy in Ilorin, Kwara State, are to resume on Monday, April 12, 2021, for the 2020/2021 third term academic session. A statement by the states Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Mary Kemi Adeosun, announced this in Ilorin on ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Saturday announced the commencement of registration of candidates for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry to tertiary education institutions in Nigeria. The decision came barely 48 hours after it had stopped the exercise over technical challenges of the National ... Read more

The Congress of University Academics (CONUA) has rejected the latest moves by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to break its rank through a reconciliation attempt. Coordinator of CONUA, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, announced the body’s position in a statement issued on ... Read more

Scores of angry students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete on Monday staged a demonstration to protest the alleged clampdown on off-campus accommodation policy. The students, who came out in scores, chanted solidarity songs at the school’s entrance gate to say they should be allowed to stay off-campus and not in the ... Read more

AS individuals are accusing electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, of giving them high electricity bills, popularly called ‘crazy bills’, educational institutions in the country are also reeling under the yoke of such bills, checks by Vanguard have revealed. It was also gathered that some tertiary institutions, mostly ... Read more

Two persons, including a schoolboy, on Monday, died in two separate auto crashes in Anambra State. The schoolboy was said to be crossing a road in the Oyi Local Government Area of the state when he was knocked down by a speeding Camry car. The other victim was a passenger on a motorcycle in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area ... Read more

THE Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has said that it will meet with the federal government on Wednesday or Thursday this week. This is in connection with the ongoing strike which the union started on April 6, 2021. President of ASUP, Mr Anderson Ezeibe, in an interview with our correspondent said the only thing the government had ... Read more