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The Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has said rebranding of the institution is paramount. Ogundipe while giving a report of the achievements of his administration in the last one year at a media parley on Monday said necessary steps were being taken to remodel UNILAG as a truly 21st century and first-class ... Read more

Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has vowed that the university would never sweep under the carpet the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against two lecturers of the university, Professor Segun Awonusi, a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Dr Igbeneghu, a former sub-dean ... Read more

The Oyo State House of Assembly has passed the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso Bill, 2020 into Law. DAILY POST reports that the bill was passed into law on Monday by the State lawmakers. Our correspondent recalls that the Assembly had last week commenced the amendment of the law that guides the establishment of the institution. The amendment, DAILY POST gathered, was ... Read more

The University of Lagos, in collaboration with an IT firm, AVAS Technologies Ltd, have launched a device that would assist pensioners carry out their verification virtually. Mr Faheed Olajide, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AVAS Technologies, said the device was designed to proffer solutions to the numerous challenges faced by senior ... Read more

Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, while inaugurating some projects in Yola, Adamawa State recently, averred that a number of graduates from tertiary institutions of learning in the country weren’t worth their weight in gold because they could neither write nor read correctly. Many of them still struggle with writing applications. The ... Read more

Contrary to an online report written by a staff of Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State, using a pseudonym name, management of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti says it has not exonerated Prof Abayomi Fasina based on the fact finding committee’s recommendations. “I am not aware of the exoneration of Prof Fasina ... Read more

Following a vote of no-confidence passed on the Rector of Federal Polytechnic Ede, Dr John Adekolawole, by the Academic Board of the Institution, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has called on the Federal Government to suspend him. The union, in a letter to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, said the call for ... Read more

The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may suspend its nine-month industrial action today, THISDAY learnt yesterday. The suspension of the strike is, however, predicated on the condition that the federal government will show evidence that it has met three conditions to be marshalled out by the ASUU leadership at ... Read more

The principal of a college in Akwa Ibom where a junior student was said to have been sexually molested by some senior students has been suspended. PREMIUM TIMES how a woman, Deborah Okezie, posted a video on Facebook where she cried out that her 11-year-old son, a JSS1 student of Deeper Life High School, Uyo, was sexually molested by ... Read more

A 300-level student of the Department of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Gbenga Favour Olaoye-Akanbi, has committed suicide after he was allegedly duped by a forex trader, Eseka Chuckwutem Gospel (ESG). Family sources told SaharaReporters that Olaoye-Akanbi was discovered dead on Sunday after drinking poison. The 19-year-old student was said to have invested over N300 million belonging ... Read more