Education
Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, a Nigerian postdoctoral research fellow in Canada, recently got the University of Alberta, Canada, to exclude Nigerian students from its English language requirement. Mr Igbalajobi, who hails from Ekiti State, South-west Nigeria, on May 22, emailed and tweeted at the university’s official Twitter handle, calling its attention to a list of select universities […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has warned the general public, particularly candidates in the just- concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME, to be “wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who are making false claims of errors in the scoring of candidates in the 2022 UTME.” The board disclosed this […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to ASUU to consider the plight of students and call the on going strike. The president also urged students in Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions to exercise patience as the government strives to address the nagging issues in the nation’s university system within the ambit of the resources available. He made […]
Due to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff union of universities, students of some universities have taken to the street to protest against the protracted strike. Yesterday, students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, took to the highways, stopping vehicular movements in protest against the strike […]
Registrar/Chief Executive of The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has said that the board is yet to commence releasing the results of candidates due to some internal appraisal. According to him, JAMB wouldn’t want to release results because it had asked people to submit reports, particularly of malpractices. Oloyede stated these in […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has extended its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. In a statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, he said the roll over strike would be effective from 12:01am, May 9, 2021 and this was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. […]
Plans to issue a new visa type known as the High Potential Individual visa has been trolled out by The United Kingdom. The issuance of the new visa type was announced yesterday, the new visa allows applicants to relocate to the UK without a prior job offer or sponsorship, this includes holders of first degrees, […]
As the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff union of Universities (ASUU) is yet to come to an end. Youths and students of Tertiary institutions took to the streets of some major towns in the country to protest the continued closure of public universities due to strike by staff unions. The youths and students were […]
The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, has spoken on the issue of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities who continue to earn salaries while on strike. While speaking in a telephone interview with The Punch on Sunday, Nwajiuba said, “The lecturers have continued to earn salaries while on strike; it doesn’t […]
A fire breakout occured late Wednesday at the Nigerian Law School at located on Ozumba Mbadiwe street, Victoria Island. According to an eyewitness, the fire which began around ten pm was suspected to be caused by an electrical fault on the first floor of the 5-storey building hostel housing the about 1500 law graduates on […]
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