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The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to make Vocational Studies a compulsory subject in secondary schools. The legislation, sponsored by the lawmaker representing Adavi/Okehi Federal Constituency of Kogi State, Joseph Bello, is titled ‘A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Compulsory ... Read more

The attention of the University of Calabar has been drawn to some online publication titled, “Anger, Frustration as University of Calabar Vice-Chancellor asks Final year Students to Return to 200Level” published on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, alleging that the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Florence Banku Obi, Fnaec, mnae, JP, unilaterally ... Read more

The Benue Police Command said the three abducted students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), regained freedom on Tuesday night unhurt. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Catherine Anene, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in ... Read more

United States Government, Wednesday said that about 14,000 Nigerians who pursued U.S. graduate and undergraduate degrees, brought an estimated $501 million (N190,129,500,000.00) to the country last year. Disclosing this in a fact sheet released on its website, US government revealed that Nigeria sends more students to American colleges and ... Read more

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that graduating students who distinguish themselves by earning First Class degrees should be given automatic employment in the federal and other universities across the country. He insisted that universities must continue to lead in innovative research targeted at providing solutions to the numerous problems ... Read more

The Registrar and Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, commended the University of Ibadan over what he called transparency, saying the university is the most transparent among other universities nationwide on admission. He said “the university would never compromise admission criteria in terms ... Read more

THE Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has expended the sum of N150 billion on academic staff training in the last three years, in both the federal and state universities across the country. Chairman, Board of Trustees, TETFund, Ibrahim-Imam Kashim, who made this known during the inauguration of the governing councils of some federal ... Read more

The management of the Adamawa State University Mubi has announced the date for the 17th Matriculation Ceremony for the 2020/2021 Academic Session to officially admit new students The information was contained in a circular issued from the Academic Office of the University signed by the Academic Secretary Mrs Joy Tarfa The circular read in parts that the Ceremony is scheduled to hold on ... Read more

Barely a week of complaint by Nigerian-American philanthropist, Mr Toyin Dawodu, to Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, on the plight of the (UNILAG) yet to obtain their certificates owing to the failure of the institution to hold a convocation ceremony; the over 13,000 graduates can now heave a sigh of relief. ... Read more

The Management of the University of Jos, on Saturday, directed the closure of all its students’ hostels over security threats to the school. Mr Abdullahi Abdullahi, Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications of the university disclosed this in a statement to NAN. Abdullahi said that the hostels would remain closed until further ... Read more