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  (By NAN) The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday announced the accreditation of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Agriculture. The commission also announced the approval for Engineering courses for the University of Abuja. The Chairman of the Task Team on the accreditation of the College of Medicine and Visiting Professor to NUC, Eugene Okpere, made […]

  (By NAN) The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has recommended necessary policy interventions to address the challenges of universities and other higher institutions in the country. Prof. Michael Faborode, Secretary-General of the committee, said that the policy was necessary due to the challenges of weak governance structure and process in the Nigerian higher

  (By Dotun Onimole) After weeks in the hospital with a tumour big as the size of a grapefruit in his stomach, 9-year-old Cole Johanson’s parents looked down at him in that Oregon hospital bed and they weren’t sure whether their son would live or die. There was so much pain, and the boy was

  (By Mairo Danlami) Mr  Agwu Amogu, President of Students for Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), on Wednesday said that Nigeria had been chosen to host the 2013 world students’ global entrepreneurship competition in Abuja. Amogu in Abuja said that the competition which was the 11th in the series was tagged “The SAGE World Cup’’.

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) The Federal Government will meet the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, today on the ongoing strike embarked on by university lecturers over the non- implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement, which has been on for weeks. The meeting comes following the denial of Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka

  (By Mairo Danlami) In a call with student leaders and reporters on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton said that student debt and illegal prescription drug use are among the problems facing America’s college students, Inside Higher Education reported. Clinton’s call was placed ahead of the sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting, which will

  (By Dotun Onimole) Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said his administration has employed 1200 new teachers to boost teaching and learning in the state public secondary schools. Fashola disclosed this as he presented cheques worth N256 million to 128 public secondary schools in the state, as reward for academic excellence. The Governor

  (By Mairo Danlami) Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described as speculative reports that the strike embarked upon by the union over the inability of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement it willingly entered into with the union would be called off this Thursday. National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge,

 In an awesome attempt to help its students learn English, a school in Brazil named Red Balloon challenged a group of eight to 13-year-olds to play “grammar cops” for their favourite celebrities on Twitter. The kids picked out grammatically incorrect tweets from big-name stars like Justin Bieber and Paris Hilton and responded directly with their

  Twenty-year-old Eromhonsele Michael was the cynosure of all eyes at the eighth graduation ceremony of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, on Friday. He was the best graduating student of the institution. To achieve this feat, he obtained a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.92, out of a possible 5.0, to beat 1,465 other