Education

The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has lost accreditation for four of the courses offered in the institution. The National Universities Commission reportedly suspended the university’s law, dentistry, medical rehabilitation, and botany programmes, The Cable reports. Prospective students who selected any of the four courses in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been asked to change their course or...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said no corps member serving in Plateau State would be posted to crisis-ridden areas. Mr Abdulsalam Alhassan, the state’s coordinator, said this while addressing newsmen on Monday in Mangu area of thr state. He said that the measure became necessary to ensure that no corps member became a victim of attacks on rural communities. “In...

Students of the Federal University, Oye–Ekiti, today staged a peaceful protest, over Wi-Fi, poor road, healthcare The students marched across the institution on Monday morning demanding improved living and learning services. The protest has disrupted the academic and administrative activities on campus. The students want the management of FUOYE to repair a major access road across the campus, provide Wi-Fi, and improve...

Meet Moses Onamade, a smart man that never went to secondary school, lectured in two tertiary institutions and was the Head Of Department in Unilag. I feel pained I didn’t attend secondary school –Retired lecturer Can you tell us your background? I was born at Ipara Remo in Ogun State on June 21, 1938. My father, Alfred Onamade, was a farmer and...

With the education system on ground, every student must write a project before graduation. Polytechnic students write two projects, one at the National Diploma (ND) level and the other at the Higher National Diploma (HND) level. But then, many people have difficulties in choosing a project topic. That is why many students outsource their project work and pay huge...

The Vice Chancellor of the Akwa Ibom University, Prof. Eno James Ibanga, said his university does not give admission to students with tattoos. He made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen, saying that students are thoroughly screened before being admitted, also to check that they do not belong to cults. One of the criteria for admission is the no-tattoo...

The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has remitted another N7.8 billion to the Federal Government. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...

LAUTECH TO increase school fee from 120k to 300k. This is to inform the general public that as from next semester , i.e 2018/19 session , all students from 100-400L from the faculty below will pay the assigned amount as tuition fee FACULTY OF ENGINEERING – N250,000 FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE –...

The Principal of Pacific Comprehensive College, Shasha, Lagos, Mr. Andrew Mekwunye, has warned that government at all levels in Nigeria is no longer in a position to provide quality education for the nation’s children. Speaking during the valedictory service for the 2017/2018 set of graduating pupils of the school, held at the college premises last Saturday, Mekwunye noted that the...

With the Federal Executive Council giving approval for the scrapping of the award of the higher national diploma (HND) and the approved submission of two executive bills to the National Assembly for enactment, the death-knell of the dichotomy between BSc and HND has been sounded, writes Head, Education Desk, IYABO LAWAL There was no fanfare when the announcement was made...