Dear Hon. Minister,As a professor and mother, I have no doubt that you are aware of the fact that your ministry has a crucial role to play in how the future of this country will be. If Nigeria will remain as a going concern and team up with the rest …
Not less than 50,000 candidates have applied for the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos 2013/2014 academic session post UTME.The Head of the institution’s Public Relations Unit, Mr Adekunle Adams, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday.Adams said that the …
All 25,000 individuals who applied to the University of Liberia, one of the African nation’s two universities, exactly zero passed the admissions exam.The results, which came on August 21, have caused waves of discontent in the country’s academic community.Liberia is recovering from a violent civil war that came to an …
The Head of Department, Dental Technology, School of Dental Technology and Therapy, Enugu, Mr. Oladimeji Sikiru, has advised Nigerian students to engage more in reading books to improve their lives. Sikiru gave the advice on Monday in Enugu at the presentation of a book titled The Gold is Mine. He …
Members of workers’ unions at the Osun State University on Monday staged a protest against the no-work-no-pay threat issued by the management of the university against the striking workers.The protesting workers, who are members of the Non-Academic Staff Union and the National Association of Academic Technologists in the six campuses …
Education has again been identified as the major vehicle for economic transformation and a step towards securing a promising future for Nigeria.This was the theme of discussion recently in Lagos, when Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc announced the recipient of this year’s 7Up Harvard Business School MBA Scholarship; in the person …
This is to serve as reminder to all candidates that have registered for the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro Ogun State 2013/2o14 academic session Higher National Diploma (HND) Full-Time programmes and National Diploma (ND) Part-Time programmes that the date for their screening exercise has been released.The dates for the screening exercise will …
The leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, and Federal Government, yesterday, appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the 7-week old industrial strike action they embarked upon. The NASS and FG made the plea after a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of public universities in …
After 10 unsuccessful meetings with the Federal Government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday said government was not ready to end the 8-week-old strike, lamenting that government displayed dishonesty and lack of integrity during negotiations At a briefing in Lagos, ASUU’s President, Dr. Isa Faggae, claimed that government …
Over 200,000 Nigerian students studying in Ghanaian universities are reported to expend over N100 billion annually as tuition outside sundry fees.Former lawmaker and educationists, Senator David Iornem, who disclosed this yesterday at a briefing to mark his 64th birthday anniversary in Makurdi, said the figure represented a major capital flight …