NAFDAC to Involve NYSC Members to End Fake and Counterfeit Drugs:The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Monday said it would involve youth corps members in its campaign to rid the country of fake and counterfeit drugs.The Director General of the agency, Mr Paul Orhii, said …
Police Nabs Commissioner for Beating up NYSC Member:Police in Ekiti State has arrested the state’s Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr. Kayode Olaosebikan, for questioning over the beating up of a National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, member at a registration unit in Otun Ekiti, Moba Local Government Area of the …
NIS Recruitment Casualty and Role of Entrepreneurial Education:The death of 19 graduates during the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise last Saturday raises doubts about the relevance of entrepreneurship education in the country, CHARLES ABAH and SODIQ OYELEKE writeThe authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, call the courses …
A study by Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom has shown that female students with high resilience levels are likely to outperform male peers academically. The researchers say its findings have implications for student support services in a higher education system that now favours female students.The study, which was …
Neuroscientist Charges Nigerians to Make Their Brain Productive :The President of Ilorin Neuroscience Group, Dr. B. V. Owoyele, has charged Nigerians to engage their brain in productive mental activities to keep it from damage, saying, “Your brain is an essential organ, if it is dead, you are dead.”Dr. Owoyele made …
The Ag. Director of the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies (CPSS), University of Ilorin, Dr. Mahfouz Adedimeji, has reiterated that unless synergy is forged between the academic community and the larger public, there can be no meaningful development.Dr. Adedimeji made this submission while receiving a delegation of the Kwara …
BBC – Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel, Americanah.The writer’s work tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education.In 2008, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the UK’s …
US, UN Condemns Killings of School Children in Yobe:The United States Consular General in Nigeria, Mr Jeffrey Hawkins, has condemned the killings of school children in Yobe State and the activities of Boko Haram sect in Borno, Adamawa and other northern states of Nigeria.Hawkins, who allayed fear that the activities …
Driver Abducted, Raped Student for 21 Days – Police:The State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, has arraigned a 28-year-old man, Gbenga Asaye, before a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court for allegedly abducting and raping a student of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin.The police said the incident happened at the Agege area …
Wickedness! University of Ibadan 500-Level Student Murdered:BUT for the national strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in July 2013, Taiwo Shittu, a 500 level student of the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, University of Ibadan would have become a graduate.But the hope of her parents …