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United States Government, Wednesday said that about 14,000 Nigerians who pursued U.S. graduate and undergraduate degrees, brought an estimated $501 million (N190,129,500,000.00) to the country last year. Disclosing this in a fact sheet released on its website, US government revealed that Nigeria sends more students to American colleges and ... Read more

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that graduating students who distinguish themselves by earning First Class degrees should be given automatic employment in the federal and other universities across the country. He insisted that universities must continue to lead in innovative research targeted at providing solutions to the numerous problems ... Read more

The Registrar and Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, commended the University of Ibadan over what he called transparency, saying the university is the most transparent among other universities nationwide on admission. He said “the university would never compromise admission criteria in terms ... Read more

THE Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has expended the sum of N150 billion on academic staff training in the last three years, in both the federal and state universities across the country. Chairman, Board of Trustees, TETFund, Ibrahim-Imam Kashim, who made this known during the inauguration of the governing councils of some federal ... Read more

Barely a week of complaint by Nigerian-American philanthropist, Mr Toyin Dawodu, to Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, on the plight of the (UNILAG) yet to obtain their certificates owing to the failure of the institution to hold a convocation ceremony; the over 13,000 graduates can now heave a sigh of relief. ... Read more

The Management of the University of Jos, on Saturday, directed the closure of all its students’ hostels over security threats to the school. Mr Abdullahi Abdullahi, Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications of the university disclosed this in a statement to NAN. Abdullahi said that the hostels would remain closed until further ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked allegations making the round that it specifically targeted Baptist Girls Academy, Lagos, from collecting more that the official registration fees of N4700 from candidates. In a statement, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede explained that he was not aware of any large-scale extortion going on anywhere other than some elite ... Read more

Some former students of the Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa, Oyo State, have lamented the school authority over their inability to get their Higher National Diploma certificates four years after graduating. The institution, formerly known as the Ibarapa Polytechnic, is owned by the Oyo State Government. The former students graduated in ... Read more

The body of a 300-level Law student of the Imo State University, Owerri, Kingsley Chiwueze, has been found five days after he went missing. Chiwueze was on Monday declared missing after efforts made to find him proved abortive. Our correspondent gathered that the deceased, who was deeply involved in students’ politics, hailed from the ... Read more

INDICATION emerged on Sunday that the non-teaching staff in the universities are mounting pressure on their leadership to declare industrial dispute following the alleged Federal Government failure to keep to the April timeline for the implementation of the Memorandum of Action, MoA it entered with the unions. The union members have lamented ... Read more