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A student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Adedeji Emmanuel was reported dead after consuming a substance suspected to be sniper. It was gathered the body of Emmanuel, a 200-level student of Accounting and Management, was found around spider house, which housed Mechanical Engineering Department. A student confided in the medium that the ... Read more

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has assured that approvals for research grants would be doubled in 2021. TETFund Executive Secretary, Prof Suleiman Bogoro, said the approvals would be increased from over 128 made in 2020. Bogoro said the approvals would be made public once the Board of Trustees gives its nod. He disclosed this ... Read more

The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has confirmed the death of a student of the school who committed suicide by ingesting sniper, a popular anti-insecticide. In a message to DAILY POST earlier, the Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju stated that the school has confirmed the incident and that the ... Read more

Some government primary and secondary school teachers in Rivers State, yesterday, protested non-payment of their five years salaries by the state government. The protesters, who took over the entrance of the Rivers State Government House with placards bearing different inscriptions such as “Government is not a personal thing”, ... Read more

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, has said that the suicide committed recently by a student of the university was not as a result of academic failure. Olarewaju, who stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday, in Ile-Ife, added ... Read more

The Product Manager, Applications and Vertical Markets at SystemSpecs, the providers of Remita, Kayode Osinulu, has said prospective candidates of the 2021 UTME now have seamless registration with their ePIN on the Remita platform. He said this in a statement titled ‘Remita enables seamless purchase of 2021 JAMB ePIN’ on ... Read more

House of Representatives Wednesday expressed worry over the huge amount of money paid by students in the nation’s tertiary institutions as acceptance fees. The House said the development was fast constituting an impediment to the smooth process of entry into universities. To ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has announced a new feature in the ongoing registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The exam body in a statement issued on Thursday by its Head of Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the feature, ‘Know Your Registration Officer,’ ... Read more

Senate in its efforts to upgrade the Federal Polytechnics, Ilaro and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos to Universities of technology as well as grant legal status to the Nigeria French Village, Badagry continued a public hearing for the three bills on Thursday. The bills were sponsored by Senator Solomon Adeola. Speaking at the public ... Read more

The Senate, Thursday said it will upgrade the Federal Polytechnics, Ilaro and Yaba College of Technology, Yaba to universities of technology as well as grant legal status to the Nigeria French Village, Badagry. Speaking at the public hearing for the three bills, sponsored by Senator Solomon Adeola, Chairman of Senate Committee of Tertiary Institution and TETFUND, Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita, said ... Read more