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The management of Nigeria Maritime University (NMU) Okerenkoko, in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, has denied allegations of fraud levelled against former Vice-Chancellor Prof (Mrs) Maureen Orubide Etebu, describing the report as false and baseless. NMU Registrar Dr Alfred Mulade, who made the clarification in a press ... Read more

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has hinted secondary schools across England might not fully reopen until later than September despite saying coronavirus is “in retreat” across the UK. The Prime Minister will meet with the Cabinet on Tuesday ahead of the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson addressing Parliament on plans to reopen ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has said the university has adopted online teaching in its bid to resume academic activities. Ogundipe said this at the inauguration of the renovated Human Resource Development Centre building and meeting rooms donated to the University of Lagos Business School by the Chairman, Platform Capital, Dr Akintoye Akindele. He ... Read more

A global endorsement of the efforts of the Prof Andy Egwunyenga administration at the Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, has emerged through the just-released rankings of 30,000 universities in 200 countries by the famous Ranking Web or Webometrics. According to the rankings, DELSU jumped from its 78th position among Nigerian universities ... Read more

Babcock University, Ilisan, Ogun State, Okegbue Nzeribe Emmanuel has emerged the new President of Babcock University Students Association (BUSA). The election into BU Students Association was conducted online and Okegbue made mark as the first president of the association from Faculty of Law, Iperu campus. As result of the Coronavirus pandemic, ... Read more

The National Youth Service Corps has embarked on measures that would enable safe and efficient conduct of its operations after lifting of COVID-19 restrictions on socio-economic activities in the country. The NYSC said the 2020 Batch ‘A’ Stream One Orientation Course was suspended one week into the exercise as a proactive measure to ... Read more

Over 1.5 million students and teachers in the Middle East and Africa Emerging markets alone are leveraging Microsoft Teams as the remote learning platform during this COVID-19 pandemic period. Microsoft Education Lead for North, West, East and Southern Africa, Levant and Pakistan countries, Angela Nganga, who said this in a statement, added that ensuring secure collaboration is important to ... Read more

The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has said that the scheme is putting strategies to enable a safe and efficient conduct of its operations ahead of further lifting of restrictions on socio-economic activities in the country. In a statement signed by Director, Press and Public Relations ... Read more

The Nura Manu Foundation, established by a philanthropist and businessman in Bauchi State, Alhaji Nura Manu Soro, has disbursed N17,933,449 million scholarship to 4,000 students who are indigenes of the state studying in 54 institutions across the country. A member of the executive committee of the foundation, Malam Mukhtar Jarmajo disclosed ... Read more

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has commended the management of Edo University Iyamho for the brilliant performance it recorded in the October/November 2019 programme accreditation by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and professional bodies. The governor congratulated the council, vice-chancellor, management, staff and students of the university for recording such feat ... Read more