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A 23-year-old student of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Solomon Oboh, has committed suicide.Tribune Online gathered that the late Oboh, a National Diploma, ND 1 student of Public Administration, was found dangling in his room on Friday night. The suicide victim an account noted, had been in the class earlier day, when he had ... Read more

The abducted seventy-five students of Government Day Secondary School, Kaya in Zamfara State have regained their freedom after spending 13 days in captivity.The students and the vice-principal of the school who were kidnapped on September 1, while preparing for their mock exams were released by their abductors on Sunday.It would be recalled ... Read more

Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State following the declaration of sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The armed men reportedly invaded the school premises when some students were participating in the ongoing 2021 West African School ... Read more

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), asking it to probe Professor AbdulAkeem Agboola of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), who was suspended for alleged age falsification. Agboola was said to have celebrated his ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) has said it might be compelled to embark on another strike if the Federal Government fails to implement the December 22, 2020 Memorandum of Action (MoA). The Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof. Fred I. Esumeh, disclosed this to newsmen in Benin while speaking on “Another Inevitable Round ... Read more

LAGOS – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that 405, 256 spaces for admission of students into programmes at all levels of tertiary education exists and are unutilised by candidates across the country. JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, in a document tagged: “Titbits On 2020 Admission and 2021 ... Read more

University lecturers, under their umbrella group, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are spoiling for another showdown with the Federal Government over what they described as the “height of insensitivity and carefree attitude” of the government to university challenges. This is as ASUU said that the President Muhammadu ... Read more

The news is that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has dropped the idea of suggesting its own cut-off point which used to serve as the minimum below which no candidate could be admitted into a Nigerian tertiary institution. Recently re-appointed JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, announced that though tertiary institutions would ... Read more

At least two zones of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have asked Nigerians to hold the Federal Government responsible if the body of university lecturers embarks on another strike. The Abuja and Bauchi zones of the union said this on Tuesday while accusing the government of not implementing the agreement it signed with the ... Read more

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja A former Governing Council Member of the University of Lagos (Unilag), Prof. Boniface Oye-Adeniran, yesterday called for the prosecution of the current Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and other members of the management that were alleged to have breached the procurement law. The retired ... Read more