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    Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, will this week embark on a nationwide rally to protest government’s lukewarm attitude to polytechnic education in the country. National President of ASUP, Mr. Chibuzor Asomugha, who disclosed this yesterday, said there would be a meeting of the Council of National Officers within the week in Abuja […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students has ordered the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, the police and other security agencies in the state to find the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, missing lecturer, Prof. James Olomo within 14 days. The Coordinator of the NANS in the South West, Mr. Sunday Ashefon, said this

  A 26-year-old man has filed a case against Unilever Nigeria Limited (UNL), maker of Close Up toothpaste brand, for ‘cheating’ and causing him ‘mental suffering’. The plaintiff has cited his failure to attract any girl at all even though he’s been using Close-Up toothpaste for over seven years now. Close-Up advertisements suggest that the product

As at today, January 11th, 2013, nine-year-old Anjolaoluwa Mautin Botoku cannot lay substantial claim to widespread fame. She has however served notice that her name is one that the world should watch out for in the future. At her very tender age, she has written a dreaded examination and did creditably. The examination is the

  A teenager has been hailed as a hero in Pakistan after he was killed while chasing down a suicide bomber outside a school. Aitzaz Hasan died when an Islamist militant detonated a device outside the school in the village of Hangu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A teacher at the school told police he saw

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, responsible for the UTME, in a new policy has made it compulsory for candidates to pick one university, one polytechnic, one college of education and one innovative enterprise institute (IEI) when registering for their exams. Many candidates registering for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, were shocked

  A paper authored by a team from the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, has been adjudged the  best presentation at the 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2013) held in London, United Kingdom, in December 2013. Entitled DGM Approach to Network Attacker and Defender Strategies, the paper, which was presented

  Edo State governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, said that his government had no apology for sacking 836 teachers in the state. He spoke on the heels of the disclosure by the leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, that he had promised to review the recent sack of the teachers, with a view to

  The rankings of Africa’s top higher education institutions has been provided by the 4 International Colleges & Universities (4icu). 4icu is an international higher education search engine and directory reviewing accredited Universities and Colleges in the world. 4icu.org includes 11,160 Colleges and Universities, ranked by web popularity, in 200 countries. The list shows that

Whether that provocative photo is saved on your computer or buried in your phone, it’s not safe! Hannah was 14 when she took the photos— a series of three selfies shot in front of her bathroom mirror, her long auburn hair framing her smiling face—and texted them to her boyfriend. In one of the images