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ALERT: Collect your certificates before December 31st or face penalty ‪- WAEC threatens

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has threatened to impose penalties on candidates who failed to collect their certificates on or before December 31. This is contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Yusuf Ari, on Monday in Lagos. It stated that millions of certificates of candidates who sat for WAEC […]

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ASUU vows to continue strike until FG agrees to demands

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday rejected the Federal Government’s new offer of enhanced academic allowances, insisting that government should first implement in full the 2009 agreement before any other negotiation could take place. National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, said after consultations with branch chairmen of the union on the

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ASUU Warns Candidates On Post-UTME

The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that successful candidates at the various 2013 post-UTME examinations to government owned Universities may not be recognised if offered admission from the exercise. The union also described as cheap “political statement” the pronouncement of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State that the strike would be

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Appeal Court declares Lead City University Law programme illegal

  The court upturned the ruling of a lower court. The Court of Appeal on Wednesday ruled that Lead City University, an Ibadan-based private university, had been running its Law programme illegally. The three-man panel of judges, in a judgement that lasted about three hours, upturned an earlier decision of an Oyo State High Court

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Students Protest Over ASUU Strike In Akure (Photos)

(By Mairo Danlami) Students of tertiary institutions in Ondo State have called for the sack of the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqquayatu Rufai, over the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has paralysed the academic calendar for over a month throughout the country. The students organised a protest

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Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) rated the best University in Nigeria, eight in Africa!

  (By Dotun Onimole) Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has been ranked as the best university in Nigeria and the eighth in Africa. A statement by the university’s Public Relations Department, on Monday, said the latest “web-o-metric ranking was conducted by a world renowned research council, Cybermetrics Lab, which is based in Spain.” Signed by the

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10-year-old Nigerian Girl Zuriel Oduwole Makes Forbes History

  (By Mairo Danlami) Zuriel Oduwole, a ten-year-old Nigerian girl Zuriel Oduwole has made history as the youngest person ever to be interviewed in Forbes, the global iconic magazine title. The interview with the award-winning documentary film maker, conference speaker and writer is featured in the August 2013 edition of Forbes Africa. Touted as the

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WAEC Releases May/June 2013 Examination Results

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) The West African Examination Council on Wednesday released the full results of 1,543,683 candidates who sat for its May/June 2013 Secondary School Certificate Examination. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the number represents 91.38 per cent of 1,689,188 candidates who registered for the examination. The Head of National Office (HNO)

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Bank donates N600m ICT building to Obafemi Awolowo University

  (By Mairo Danlami) Skye Bank Plc. has donated an equipped ultra-modern Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre valued at N600 million to the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the bank, Mr Kehinde Durosimi-Etti stated that the bank’s intervention is in line with its philosophy of supporting plausible, social

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