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A 400-level student of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Olayinka Toyinbo, has been kidnapped in Ogun. Head, Directorate of Public Relations, Kola Adepoju, issued a statement announcing the incident on Sunday. Toyinbo was abducted from a private farm in Abule Itoko, Odeda Local Government ... Read more

The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, has concluded arrangements for the reinstatement of the suspended Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the institution, Dr. Gabriel Omonijo, who was suspended indefinitely in 2019. The VC also advised his colleagues across the country to ... Read more

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has refuted claims that it informed Corps members to stop wearing their uniform. The NYSC in a statement on its Twitter page urged Nigerians to disregard the report, describing it as ‘fake and baseless. ”The attention of NYSC Management has been drawn to a release trending online, ... Read more

Following recent ‘haunting’ of ladies by evil doers in the country, another sad occurence has happened. A UNIABUJA female graduate who has gone to collect her result was found naked and dead inside a gutter. Reports have it that the deceased, Otunla Blessing who studied English language at the University traveled from Oyo State to Abuja was found naked in a gutter in Student ... Read more

The National Examination Council (NECO) has been asked to explain how contracts worth N6.5 billion for the printing of security and non- security documents were awarded without due process. Hinging on the 2017 report of Office of Auditor General of the Federation, the Senate Committee on Public Account faulted NECO on shoddy handling of two contracts worth N451 million and N6.1 billion ... Read more

As part of its first cohort of Tertiary Education Grants Scheme, the Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative, ASR Africa, has provided a N1billion grant to the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, towards the development of a Centre for Innovation and Product Development at the UNIMAID Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, UM-CEED, Complex. The ... Read more

To further stem the tide in the recruitment of unqualified teachers nationwide, 17,141 teachers have sat for the Batch ‘A’ Teachers Professional Qualifying Examinations in all the 36 states of the federation including the federal capital territory. The Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of ... Read more

THE House of Representatives is considering discontinuation of the National Youth Service Corps scheme. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is billed for the second reading. The sponsor, Mr Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, ... Read more

Children with disabilities will soon have equal access to education like their peers as the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC partners the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPND) to provide special needs learning for kids The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi who ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, Professor Labo Popoola on Thursday admitted 3,671 students into the instruction’s various colleges for the 2020/21 academic session. The University’s 14th matriculation exercise took place in all the six campuses of the institution across the state simultaneously and at the different colleges, ... Read more