Prof. Busari Shaamsuddeen Akande, an education expert, has concluded that among the numerous reasons why young Nigerians and their parents continue to seek higher education in Ghana and Togo despite the high prices are the countries’ safe environments, the need for certain talents in certain industries, and a high-quality electrical supply. Speaking in a Sunday interview with our reporters in Calabar, Akande is the Secretary of Council for the American Chartered Institute of Management and...
The University of Calabar’s suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, has been accused of sexual assault. The Nigerian Bar Association has formed an ad hoc committee to look into the claims. The NBA also filed complaints against Hudu Yunusa-Ari, a suspended resident electoral commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission in Adamawa State, and Ifunanya Grant, a young attorney in Aba. The complaints against Miss Grant focused on her social media...
Five members of the National Youth Service Corps from the 2022 Batch B stream 2 will receive various punishments, according to Mr. Usman Yakubu-Yaro, the state coordinator for Sokoto. One member will repeat the state’s service year. This information was provided by Yakubu-Yaro to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Sokoto, when corps members were picking up their Certificates of National Service. According to him, the affected corps members had received sanctions for...
President Bola Tinubu has been praised for enacting the Student Loan Bill, which the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Registrars of Private Universities in Nigeria says will make it easier for more students to pay for either public or private tertiary education. At the general meeting of the committee, which took place at the university’s international conference centre in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, chairman of the CVCRPUN and vice chancellor...
The first group of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery classes at Edo State University, which graduated 34 students, marked another significant achievement. Dr. Tajudeen Sanusi, the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, urged the newly inducted doctors to take their profession seriously while conducting the induction and oath-taking ceremony. He noted that the doctors’ call to duty was a call to humanity and that they should exercise great compassion...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that the last day for purchasing a Direct Entry, Direct Entry e-PIN in the year 2023 will be on Saturday, May 26, 2023. The board has announced that those who have obtained the e-PIN will not be able to register after Tuesday, May 30, 2023. In a statement issued on Tuesday morning, the acting Director of Public Affairs for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, recalled that the registration...
13 members of the academic and non-academic staff at Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo State, have been fired by the administration for offenses that include allegedly lying about their age, committing financial fraud, engaging in gross misconduct, extortion, and sexual harassment. The University Staff Disciplinary Committee recommended that the alleged erring staff members’ employment be terminated after finding them guilty of the offenses, according to Prof. Asomwan Adagbonyin, the institution’s acting vice chancellor. ...
A new curriculum has been proposed for use in Nigerian universities by the country’s Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who states that it will enhance the employability of graduates from those institutions. On Tuesday in Abuja, Adamu made this announcement during the public presentation of the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) Book 1 series for universities in Nigeria as well as a book written in his honor. He stated that graduates from all...
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, has challenged universities in Nigeria to work aggressively to raise funds and market their institutions, claiming that no government in the world can fund universities to the extent that is required. On Tuesday, he issued the challenge at the Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu Foundation, KAAF, Auditorium, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Ibadan. Sir Kessington Adebutu, a Nigerian philanthropist, donated the auditorium. Insisting that government budgeting would not...
According to the Centre for World University Rankings, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria, and University of Lagos are among the top universities in the world. The list, which was posted on the international organization’s website on Monday, showed that 20,531 universities had been ranked, with 2,000 making the global list. Nigeria’s Unibadan was ranked first overall and in position 1,163 globally. UNN came in second place overall and 1,784th place...
