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The University of Lagos (UNILAG) will tomorrow host a former advisor to two former British Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, on Policy and Strategy, Ms Cat Tully. Ms Tully, who is the founder of the UK-based School of International Futures, will lead a webinar focused on discussions about repositioning academic institutions for ... Read more

The Nigeria Police Force has said it has begun investigating power-drunk policemen who tortured a University of Lagos student, John Akinwale, till he went into a coma in the Mosafejo, Oshodi area of Lagos State. The NPF Police Complaint Response Unit, Abuja, disclosed this via its Twitter handle on Tuesday. SaharaReporters had exclusively ... Read more

The federal government has revealed that strategies have been adopted to ensure continuous learning beyond interuption of strikes by the Acadmic Staff Union of University (ASUU) and pandemics in schools across the country. The minister of education Mallam Adamu Adamu who made this disclosure at the annual ministerial press briefing of the ministry said, it has constituted a National Working ... Read more

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital, has sentenced a 23-year-old student, Emmanuel Thomas, to five years’ imprisonment. Thomas, a native of Uruk Uso in Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state, was convicted for belonging to an unlawful society known as Red Skin Secret Cult Confraternity, one of the ... Read more

Scientists and researchers at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, and the ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday, said they had a breakthrough in understanding why humans were more vulnerable to infections by the new variant of COVID-19, popularly known as N501Y SARS-CoV-2 mutant. The bio-medical scientists and ... Read more

Bowen University, one of the faith-based private tertiary institutions in the country established by the Nigerian Baptist Convention, in Iwo, Osun State, has injected new leadership into the administrative system of the Ivory Tower. The development led to the appointment of Professor Oluwatosin Atobatele as deputy vice-chancellor of the ... Read more

If the words of Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu are anything to go by, the implementation of the 65 year retirement age and 40 year of service approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday have taken off. The minister, who spoke on Thursday at the 2020 ministerial briefing in Abuja, said the policies took effect from ... Read more

The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Kayode Fayemi on Students Matters, Mr Olalekan Soyombo has advocated a change in curricula across all levels of education for the nation to survive its current challenges. The governor’s aide in a statement titled, ‘ Knowledge Economy and Ekiti Example ‘ on Thursday noted that ... Read more

Following the reports of some unpleasant incidents bordering on insecurity around the University main Campus, Ojo, the University Management at emergency meeting on Thursday, 21st January, 2021, directed the restriction of movement of students in and out of the University Campus to between the hours of 6:30a.m and 6:30p.m daily. By this directive, students are expected to arrive on Campus at ... Read more

The management of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has released the revised academic calendar for the school of postgraduate studies. Postgraduate students are hereby informed that academic activities have been scheduled to run as follows; Revised Academic Calendar for Postgraduate School HARMATTAN SEMESTER 2019/2020 DATE WEEK ACTIVITY 25TH JANUARY, 2021 WEEK ... Read more