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ESUT main gateProf. Charles Eze, the Acting Vice-Chancellor of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), said the institution had promoted 11 of its lecturers, who had been associate professors to the rank of professors. The vice-chancellor disclosed this in Enugu on Sunday while speaking with newsmen during a programme tagged: ... Read more

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has expressed worry over the resumption of schools questioning their level of preparedness to reopen for studies amid the surge in COVID-19 cases across the Federation. Reacting to the decision of the Federal government to reopen schools for the Junior Secondary School 3 and Senior Secondary School 3, ... Read more

TWO Anambra-born candidates came tops in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, last April. The brilliant top-fliers are Miss Egoagwuagwu Agnes Madufokwa and Master David Okwuchukwu Nwobi. They scored 365 and 363 to emerge overall first and second respectively ... Read more

Dr Michael Arimanwa is the Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, Imo State. In this interview, he talked about the need to upgrade some polytechnics to award degrees, dichotomy between lecturers, students of polytechnic and their university counterparts. Why do some polytechnic lecturers and students feel inferior to their university ... Read more

Caleb University at Imota in Lagos State, one of the select institutions to begin e-learning without interrupting its academic calendar, has successfully conducted academic, training and other regular activities on its online platform. The students’ enrolment on the university’s e-learning platform has moved from 8 per cent on April ... Read more

The Chancellor and founder of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Ile Ife, Dr Abdulrahman Adedoyin, has urged the Federal Government not to reopen universities and other schools, including that of students, who are about to sit for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination if the figures of new cases of COVID-19 being released daily ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has advised university students to develop innovative ideas that could become viable businesses. Ogundipe gave the advice at the inauguration of the I.T hub donated by the National Information Technology Development Agency to the University of Lagos. He said the institution ... Read more

The Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Registrars of Private Universities, Prof. Timothy Olagbemiro, has said private universities are ready to resume. Olagbemiro, in an interview with our correspondent, said the private universities had big campuses with small population which would give room for social distancing. He maintained ... Read more

The Minister of State, Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has revealed that the Federal Government would meet with stakeholders again on July 30, to review the guidelines, provisions and preparations for safe reopening of schools. Nwajiba also rvealed that final year secondary school students may have to sit for the General Certificate of Education (GCE) in November if there is no shift in ... Read more

The Federal Government on Thursday says final year secondary school students may have to sit for the General Certificate of Education (GCE) in November if there is no shift in the timetable of the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The Minister of State, Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this while answering questions at the 52nd joint national briefing of the Presidential Task ... Read more