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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is billed to deliver lecture at the maiden convocation of the Sokoto State University under the chairmanship of the Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Muhammad Bashar. The convocation lecture is slated for Friday at the university amphitheatre, while the award of bachelor’s degree, honorary doctorate degree and investiture ... Read more

Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, says no fewer than 14,500 candidates registered for its Post-UTME, holding from March 16 to March 22. The institution’s Head of Public Relations, Mr Joe Ejiofor, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in ... Read more

The authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka have ruled out the possibility of conducting physical classroom lectures and examinations for students at this present time. The university said students would continue to have both their lectures and the tests as applicable online till it is safe to gather them on campus. The Deputy ... Read more

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology Offa, Adebisi Ademola, to six months imprisonment over his involvement in love scam. Ademola was among the 33 suspected internet fraudsters arrested on September 14, ... Read more

Thousands of potential students gathered at the International School of Lagos on Saturday to undergo the Scholarship Assessment Test, SAT, for admissions into schools in the United States of America.

After a lecturing career spanning 40 years, Prof. Chioma Agomo, who is the first female Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, bowed out on March 1 as she clocked 70 years. She speaks to OLADIMEJI RAMON about her childhood, career journey and related issues Your profile says you were born on March 1, 1951 at Nkpa, Abia State. ... Read more

The Government of the United Kingdom has announced that international students who want to work in England after successful completion of a UK degree at bachelor’s degree level or above, or an eligible professional qualification, can now do so. This was contained in a statement on Thursday, titled, ‘New UK post-study graduate ... Read more

The Kaduna State Government says bandits attacked Government Science Secondary School, Ikara in Kara Local Government Area of the state in an attempt to kidnap students of the school. The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the attack. He said “307 students were rescued unhurt” by ... Read more

A 300 level student of Biochemistry Department, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, identified as Daniel Mba, Friday night, plunged from the third-floor of a storey to end own life. Vanguard gathered that the deceased, from Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, was caught cheating with his phone during one the ongoing examinations in ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to resume its suspended strike over non-payment of salaries and alleged victimisation of members. The chairman, University of Ibadan branch of ASUU, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, in a statement on Sunday asked Nigerians to blame the Federal Government if universities are shut down again. Akinwole ... Read more