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The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos (UNILAG), is set to reward Dr. Felix Ajiola with a grant of $1,000 for emerging the winner of this year’s Rahamon Bello Best Thesis Award. The award was instituted last year by a former Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Rahamon Bello, for the best PhD ... Read more

The Federal Government has begun moves to prevent an industrial action in the country’s public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ three-week deadline ended on Sunday. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, said the ministry had written a letter ... Read more

A teacher in a private school in Abraka, Delta state, Ezeugo Joseph, has died after he was allegedly beaten to death by one of his students on Thursday, December 2. Confirming the incident to LIB, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Bright Edafe, said the suspect, Micahel Ogbeise, an SS3 student of the school, attacked the teacher for flogging his younger sister, ... Read more

A total of 4,412 students would at the weekend graduate from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) with 64 to be awarded first class honours. In a media briefing on the university’s 33rd convocation ceremony, its Vice Chancellor (VC), Prof. Nnenna Oti, disclosed that out of the number for the award of honours, 380 would ... Read more

The Kano State Polytechnic has expelled about 83 students over examination malpractice and possession of fake results. The institution has also rusticated 44 students, warned 25 and exonerated 10 others over similar offences. This is contained in a statement on Thursday by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Auwal Bagwai. It ... Read more

The overall best graduating student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has been honoured with the “Osasere Osifo Prize for Academic Excellence” award at the just concluded 46th and 47th combined convocation ceremony of the institution, Henry Ogorchukwu Abanum. The Academic Excellence Prize is an initiative of a former President of ... Read more

Governor Sanwo-Olu this morning commissioned the newly built students arcade at the Lagos State University (LASU) in Ojo.The LASU students arcade is the largest Student Union Building in any Nigerian tertiary institution. The President of the Student Union Government, Comrade Oladipupo Uthman Badmus, and Speaker of the Students Union ... Read more

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has insisted that it will not register any prospective candidate for any of its examinations without the supply of the National Identity Number (NIN). The organisation also says it is mandatory for every school to submit the continuous assessments of its candidates from SSS1 through to SSS3 for ... Read more

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has again warned the Federal Government to, without further delay, release the N22.27 billion it said it had approved, to pay the earned academic allowances owed its members. The union said that is the only way to avert another indefinite strike when its three-week ultimatum expires expired. ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it will adopt a cashless policy in the registration process for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as a way to curb extortion of candidates. Accordingly, the Board said it would be collecting the approved N700 registration fee on behalf of the various ... Read more