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Friday Olokor, Abuja The Federal Government has approved N400m for the building of a perimeter fence for the University of Abuja, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, has said. The VC also appealed to the government to protect the university from encroachment, adding that staff and students were ... Read more

The United States has revoked visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers under an order by President Donald Trump that accused some of them of espionage, the State Department said Wednesday. Trump, in a May 29 proclamation as tensions rose with Beijing on multiple fronts, declared that some Chinese nationals officially in the ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab With the gradual reopening of the school system across the country after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Government-owned universities may be in for another round of controversy, as the two academic unions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Congress of University Academics, ... Read more

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State.Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has pledged to give 20 cars to deserving teachers across the six education districts in the state. Sanwo-Olu made the promise on Wednesday during the virtual training of the teachers tagged ”Eko Educators Webinar Performance Series 3.3”. ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) University of Lagos (UNILAG) branches have declared support for the institution’s Registrar, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, who refused to carry out directives of the Federal Ministry of Education on the selection of an Acting Vice-Chancellor. The ... Read more

A 300-Level student of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Abdulhakeem Azeez, has won the MSD Animal Health/World Veterinary Association 2020 Veterinary Student Scholarship. In a statement, Dr.Ismail Odetokun, Head of the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the university, said Azeez is ... Read more

By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie The Lagos State Examinations Board has called on private schools to submit Continuous Assessment Scores (CAS) of Primary Six pupils seeking admission into JSS1 classes of public secondary schools before the September 11 deadline. Friday is also deadline for registration for the Basic Education Certificate Examination ... Read more

Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of the Standard Bank Group, has called for applications for the maiden edition of its Scholarship Programme. The Stanbic IBTC 2020 Scholarship Programme, geared towards encouraging hard work and academic excellence among undergraduates, is open to students who scored 200 and above in the 2020 Unified ... Read more

Kayode Oyero As tertiary institutions reopen next Monday in Lagos State, the state government says final-year students will go back to the classrooms before students on other levels. Tokunbo Wahab, Special Adviser on Education to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made this known on Thursday while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily ... Read more

By Dayo Johnson, Ola Ajayi, James Ogunnaike, Rotimi Ojomoyela and Shina Abubakar WILL the country not be witnessing a second wave of COVID -19 pandemic if schools are reopened as directed by the Federal and state governments? Has the recommendation by the Federal government that states should conduct risk assessment to ensure that all ... Read more