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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Monday said that the future of a Nigeria that works regardless of religion or ethnicity depends on full and accurate knowledge of the nation’s histories. Prof. Osinbajo stated this at the inauguration of the Nigeria History Fund by the James Adekunle Ojelabi Foundation. A statement issued by the Senior ... Read more

Urges state govt. to conduct test for students By Ebunoluwa Sessou As part of efforts to affirm strict compliance with COVID-19 guidelines by Senior School Students who will be writing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, Lagos State House of Assembly has promised to embark on facility tour of both public and private ... Read more

ASUU LogoThe Chairman, University of Lagos (UNILAG) branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr Dele Ashiru, has accused the institution’s Pro-Chancellor, , of leading a group of people who want to discredit public universities. He added that their game plan was to eventually buy over the universities. Speaking with ... Read more

Grace Edema Security in and around the University of Lagos Senate building and council office was beefed up on Monday as the acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Omololu Soyombo, addressed the institution’s workers. Soyombo solicited the support of the workers, adding that he had resumed effectively as the acting vice chancellor. “I have ... Read more

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced an alumnus of the University of Lagos, Akoka, John Osagie Otema, to 50 years’ imprisonment for raping a 19-year-old student of the institution. Otema was arraigned before the court on three counts bordering on rape and assault ... Read more

When Nigerian student Mercy Eyo landed a foreign postgraduate scholarship in July 2019, she had just lost her father. A year earlier, her mother had passed away. She was elated about the prospect of starting a master’s degree in global health care management at Coventry University, in the United Kingdom, with a scholarship from a ... Read more

Gabriel Dike Five days after he was appointed acting Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG) by the Governing Council, Prof. Theophlius Soyombo, is yet to resume for duty. Daily Sun was at the university’s Senate Building, yesterday, and waited for two hours for Soyombo’s arrival but he did not turn up. “We have not ... Read more

Olalekan Adetayo, Grace Edema, Dennis Naku, Wale Oyewale and Olaide Oyelude AS the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination began across the country on Monday, the West African Examination Council has dismissed claims in some quarters that the Mathematics questions had leaked. It was gathered that Mathematics questions and ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab The opposition by the workers of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, to the appointment of Prof. Theophilus Omololu Soyombo, as the Acting Vice Chancellor of the university by the Governing Council is now cracking, as the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, on Tuesday opted out of the stance of the workers. NASU, in a ... Read more

By Peter Okutu The Vice Chancellor of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, Tuesday, debunked the rumour making the round that he has resigned his appointment as the VC of the state-owned institution. The VC who spoke with newsmen immediately after the institution’s management meeting explained that there was no reason ... Read more