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The National Association of University Students (NAUS) has warned the Nigerian Police Force, Osun State Command against subverting facts in the gruesome murder of a student of Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile Ife, Mr. Timothy Adegoke. NAUS, a vibrant arm of the National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS), said the matter relating to ... Read more

For their outstanding performance in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) has awarded scholarships to the engineering candidates to enrich the management and practice of the profession in the country. The NSE last year ... Read more

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said it would soon announce 12 additional research centers of excellence to be sited on various campuses of Nigerian universities. TETFund’s executive secretary, Suleiman Bogoro, disclosed this in Lagos on Monday at the opening session of a two-day workshop organised as part of the agency’s efforts towards improving the performance of ... Read more

Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State has produced 50 First Class graduates out of 3,885 graduates for its 12th convocation ceremony. The 16-year-old specialised University of Education also said it would confer honorary doctorate awards on two paramount rulers in the state; the Olu of Ilaro and paramount ruler of Yewaland, ... Read more

Medical students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, on Tuesday, staged a peaceful protest inside the Enugu campus of the university over the disconnection of power supply to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital’s old site. The students, who were singing solidarity songs, carried placards with various inscriptions, such as: ... Read more

The management of the Ondo State-owned Adekunle Ajasin University, (AAUA), Akungba-Akoko has shutdown the institution. A statement signed by the Registrar of the institution, Olugbenga Arajulu, urged the students to vacate their halls of residence with immediate effect. The students of the school yesterday, staged a protest on the campus ... Read more

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has increased the registration fee for its examination from N13,950 to N18,000. The increment, which amounts to about 29 percent, will take effect with the 2022 senior school certificate examination (SSCE). WAEC made the disclosure during the announcement of the release of the 2021 May/June diet of the SSCE on Monday in Lagos. This is as the ... Read more

The West African Examinations Council has said 81.7 per cent the candidates made credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics in the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination result. About 1,274,784 million is 81.7 percent of the total of 1,560,261 million candidates who sat the exam. While ... Read more

The West African Examinations Council(WAEC) has increased the registration fee for its West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) for both the school-based May/June and two other editions for private candidates from N13, 950 to N18,000 per candidate, blaming huge operational costs due to COVID-19 and high inflation for the ... Read more

Na questions wey I no fit solve I wan dey set” – Lecturer writes on test paper as he shocks Usman Danfodio varsity students with ‘difficult’ questions A lecturer at Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto state has used his students to catch cruise by recoining a popular catchphrase during a class test. The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering lecturer set a ... Read more