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By Chiemelie Ezeobi A 21-year-old undergraduate of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, has been arrested for the murder of Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, and a Director in Super Network Limited, Michael Usifo Ataga. Michael Usifo Ataga The suspect, who was paraded on Thursday at the Lagos State Police Command ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of candidates who sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted between Saturday, 19th and Tuesday, 22 June 2021.The spokesperson of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, announced the release of the results on Friday. The Board commenced the conduct of the ... Read more

NO fewer than nine First Class graduating students have been given automatic employment by the Western Delta University ( WDU ), Oghara, Delta State. The benefitting graduates, who bagged the appointments in furtherance of the institution’s avowed commitment to academic excellence, were from the 2017/2018 – 2019/2020 academic ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat in more than 720 CBT centres for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted between July 19 and July 22. Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB Spokesperson made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on ... Read more

The Association of Tutorial School Operators (ATSO) has urged the Joint Admissions and Matricuation Board (JAMB) to remark or cancel this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). At a briefing last Friday in Bariga, Lagos, National President of the association, Mr. Dotun Shodunke described this year’s UTME as the ... Read more

A 71-year-old Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student, Mrs. Felicia Ifeyinwa Marinze, has become one of the best graduating students from the School of Postgraduate Studies (SPGS) at the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, announced this on Wednesday at a media briefing on activities lined ... Read more

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday has granted the bail application of a former Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Adedibu Ojerinde. The court granted him bail in the sum of N200 million with two sureties in like sum. According to bail terms, one surety must be a professor in a Federal ... Read more

Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State on Monday protested the hike in school fees by the university authorities. The students who marched around the school premises with placards, later blocked the Enugu- Onitsha expressway for hours to register their grievances. They alleged that they were asked to pay about N500,000 as ... Read more

The Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has suspended one of its lecturers, Godwin Olai, following leaked audio recordings in which some students alleged that he demanded money to help them write their projects. The Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. Ozo-mekuri Ndimele, disclosed this on Tuesday on his ... Read more

A relation of Omowumi Olajide, the murdered student of the University of Ilorin, Mrs Stowe Opeyemi, said the deceased was stripped naked and her hands tied by her assailants before she was killed. Testifying at the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Tuesday, Opeyemi narrated how the victim’s naked corpse was found in a sitting room ... Read more