A bloody mayhem was averted in Makurdi, Benue State capital, on Monday,when 50 candidates of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board,JAMB,were arrested for staging a violent protest. Hyacinth Dagala, Commissioner of Police in the state, said the police intervened to prevent breakdown of law and order when the candidates started throwing stones at JAMB officials.…
LASU Refunds N209million School Fees to Students
The Lagos State government has refunded N209m to students of the Lagos State University following the reversal of school fees by the university authorities. Speaking at a ceremony held at the Main auditorium of the Ojo campus of the school on Thursday, February 26, Fatai Olukoga, special Adviser to the Governor on Education, who represented…
FG Approves 9 New Private Universities
The Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved nine new private universities for the country. The approval was given at a meeting presided over by Namadi Sambo, vice President. Osita Chidoka, Minister of Aviation announced the decision at a post-FEC press briefing. The new private universities, according to Chidoka, include Hallmark University, Michael and Cecilia Ibru…
Lagos Urges Principals To Ensure Proper School Census
Olayinka Oladunjoye, the Lagos State Commissioner for Education has urged principals and head teachers of public and private schools in the state to cooperate with enumerators for the success of the State’s 2014/2015 Annual Schools Census, ASC,which kicked off on Wednesday. While speaking at the flag-off of the 2014/2015 ASC Sensitization Program for stakeholders in…
Admission Test Fee for Model Colleges – LASG
The Lagos State Government has said that the N10,000 admission tests fee it recently introduced is only for pupils seeking admission to its 15 model colleges and upgraded junior secondary schools. Jide Lawal, Public Relations Officer in the state Ministry of Education disclosed this in a statement. Lawal also described as malicious the positions of…
Ghana to Convert Polytechnics Into Technical Universities
The technical committee on the conversion of Polytechnics in Ghana into technical universities has set September 2016 as the effective starting date for the programme. George Afeti, Chairman of the technical committee disclosed this at a recent stakeholders’ consultation forum on the exercise in Accra. He explained that September 2016 was chosen for the commencement…
Parents Should Model Reading – Ilori
The need for parents to inculcate the culture of reading and buying at least a book in a month is key in having children imbibe a reading culture, Funmi Ilori, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, FunmiVirtuous Educational Consult Limited has said. Speaking at an eventorganised for schools in Lagos by Vateeca World to mark the 2014…
Intel BeginsTwo-Weeks Training Workshop in FUTA
As part of efforts to train university ICT experts for its new Galileo Board Technology, Intel Incorporation, a leading global organization in Information and Communications Technology, ICT, has started a two-week training workshop at the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA. The training, which is solely for some selected Nigerian Universities, is to give ICT…
FUTA Partners Spanish University, four others on Food Security
The Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, has announced a collaboration with the University of Alicante, Spain, and four other universities in Africa on a Capacity for Food Research Project. The project, which is sponsored by the European Union and titled, “Integrated Soil Fertility Management for Food Security: Matching Capacities in Anglophone West African Nations…
Unilag Debate 2014: Social Science Student Wins
A 200Level student of the Faculty of Social Science, Olaitan Zainab today emerged the winner of the 2014 University of Lagos Debate, making her the third Social Science student to win the debate three years in a roll. Six debaters drawn from the faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of…
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