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The University of Ibadan has emerged best University in Nigeria in the latest 2021 ranking released by the National Universities Commission (NUC), on Monday. The Premier University was ranked first in the NUC ranking which was carried out using twelve indicators involving 113) universities across the country. A former Executive Secretary of ... Read more

Mr Ededa Emmanuel, the 2018 best graduating student of the Kaduna State University (KASU) has called on students to be hardworking and disciplined in order to achieve academic success. Emmanuel, 23, who bagged a first-class in Micro Biology with a CGPA of 4.97, made the call during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ... Read more

The Committee of Vice-Chancellors (CVCs) of Nigerian Federal Universities has confirmed to be true the claim by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, that the Federal Government had released a sum of N55.5bn to the 38 federal universities across the country over the weekend. The money according to a report credited to the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union Of Universities, Abuja Zone, has called on stakeholders to urge the federal government to honour its agreement with the union to avert another industrial crisis. Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr Salahu Mohammed Lawal, who appealed while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, said that the government has ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Nsukka zone said that the way the Federal government is handling the negotiation with the union shows that government is interested in pushing the union to embark on strike. The Zonal Coordinator, Raphael Amokaha stated this at the meeting held at Benue State University, Makurdi on ... Read more

A Nigerian student has taken to social media to celebrate her successful graduation from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) despite first dropping out of Madonna University due to difficulties. The student identified as Chimdinma Adaugo Ihetu finished as the 2021 best graduating student in the Department of Bio-Medical Engineering, FUTO. Sharing the great news on LinkedIn, ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it has commenced consultation with its branches across the country to agree on the shutting down of public universities. This move follows the expiration of its three-week ultimatum to the federal government to meet its demands. PM News reports that ASUU’s ational president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke who spoke in an interview on ... Read more

The Vice Chancellor of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Professor Chinedu Babalola, yesterday disclosed that five our 44 graduating students, made First Class. Babalola disclosed this at a news conference on the Third Convocation Ceremony of the institution, that will start tomorrow (Tuesday) through Thursday. The vice chancellor, who ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has presented a cheque of N3 million to fifty most deserving students in the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, Anambra State.The fifty students will receive the sum of sixty thousand naira (N60,000) each. Presenting the scholarship cheque to the beneficiary, at the ASUU Secretariat, Unizik ... Read more

THE Ogun State government has rewarded Messrs Lawal David and Emmanuel Ogunleye, who both emerged as best overall graduating students of the Ogun State Institute of Technology (OGITECH), with immediate employment. Lawal and Ogunleye were the first graduating students in the history of the institute to emerge with distinctions in their ... Read more