EDUCATION

Ogun govt. to upgrade technical colleges for special programmes

Daily Dispatch November 24, 2022

Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, has said that the present administration will upgrade the State technical colleges, to make each of them to be known for certain vocation, trade and programme. Prof. Arigbabu stated this during a Stakeholders

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MURIC to Nigerian Muslims: Avoid private universities owned by Christians

Daily Dispatch November 24, 2022

An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern, has advised Nigerian Muslim students and their parents to avoid applying for admission into private universities owned by Christians pending the time the National Universities Commission would sanitise them. The group made its position known in a statement by its Founder, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in the […]

EDUCATION

Audit Query : Reps Committee Directs NUC Boss To Produce VCs Over Illegal Budgets Approval, Extra-Constitutinal Expeditures

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2022

The Public Accounts Committee, PAC, of the House of Representatives on Wednesday directed the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Abubakar Rasheed Adamu to produce before it all the Vice Chancellors whose Universities were indicted by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation over illegal approva ofl budgets and

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Nigeria preparing for future Boko Haram with 20m out-of-school children – Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2022

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says urgent steps need to be taken to tackle Nigeria’s rising rate of out-of-school children. He said this on Tuesday in his remarks at the national summit on tertiary education reform, organised by the house of representatives, and held in Abuja. According to him, addressing tertiary education reform begins with the […]

EDUCATION

Covenant University sacks staff who expelled student after r*ping her, aborting her pregnancy

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2022

The management of Covenant University has launched investigation into allegations of rape against some of its staff. Allegations went viral on Monday on social media as people shared their unverified experiences of sexual assault by officials of the varsity. The allegations targeted different staff members: from hall monitors to the medical centre to security officials,

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Covenant University speaks on sexual misconduct allegation

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2022

The management of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, said it would not stop punishing the staff members and students of the institution involved in sexual misconduct. Covenant University, owned by Living Faith Church, well known as Winners Chapel, stated that it had never shied away from dealing with any erring faculty or staff member, stressing […]