By SOYOMBO OPEYEMI There is intellectual recession in Nigeria. It is high time we conducted an intellectual audit of tutors in our higher institutions of learning. Is it refutable, as someone recently argued, that ‘half-baked’ graduates are produced by ‘half-baked’ lecturers; that a mango seed can only produce a mango fruit, certainly not an…
Olanipekun to Deliver FUTA Registry’s 2015 Annual Lecture
Wole Olanipekun,Legal luminary andformer Pro- chancellor of the University of Ibadan, will deliver the 7th Annual Lecture of the Registry of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA. The lecture with the title, ‘Higher Educational Institutions in Nigeria: Law, Morality and Relevance as Pedestal for National Development’ will take place on Thursday July 16, 2015…
Oyedepo Advocates Quality Education
David Oyedepo, Chancellor, Covenant University, CU, has stressed the importance of quality education as the key factor that can accelerate the growth of a nation. He said this while addressing the audience at the 10th convocation ceremony of the university held on Friday, at the University chapel, CU, Ota, Ogun State. “Knowledge remains the ruling…
Corps Members Donate to FUNAAB
The 2014/2015 Batches B and C National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members, who served at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, have donated copies of official name-plates to some offices in the Senate and Unity Buildings of the University. The gesture was part of the corps members’ social responsibility programmes in their places of…
Ede Poly Lecturers Commence Strike
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, have commenced a sit in industrial action to protest the non-implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary Structure. Adeyemi Komolafe, Chairman of ASUP, Osun State, and Kayode Azeez, vice chairman of the union, disclosed this in interviews in Osogbo on Wednesday. According…
28 Inmates to Write JAMB
NO fewer than 28 Ikoyi Prison Inmates will write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, 2015 which holds between March 10 and March 21. Ayodele Obarewo, Ikoyi Prisons School Principal said in Lagos on Monday that the inmates were adequately prepared for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB organised examination. Obarewo said more inmates…
UNIZIK Suspends 5 Lecturers for Misconduct
The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, Anambra State has suspended five lecturers for examination misconduct. Emma Ojukwu, the institution’s Director of Publications, confirmed the suspension in an interview in Awka on Tuesday. He said that the lecturers were suspended on March 2 for three months with half salaries pending the outcome of the…
JAMB Candidates Protest in Port Harcourt
Candidates planning to sit for the Computer-based Test of the 2015/16 University Matriculation Examination, UME, staged a protest at the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, office in Port Harcourt, River State on Thursday. The reason for the protest was said to be related to the continued postponement of the collection of their e-slip and…
Osun Expels 5 Students for Violent Conduct
Osun State government on Thursday announced the expulsion of five public schools students fingered as perpetrators of the crises that ravaged two neighbouring schools in Osogbo, the stage capital. The schools, Osogbo High School, and Government Technical College, both located few meters away from each other, along Osogbo/ Iwo road, in Osogbo, had in February,…
OAU: Rights Group Demand Reinstatement of Suspended Students
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, Osun State Chapter on Wednesday, March 4, called on the authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife to reinstate six student activists who they say are currently under politically motivated suspension. Four of these student activists: Olubanji Oluwole, Adabale Olamide, Adewumagun Johnson and Sanyaolu Adejuwon were…
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