EDUCATION

Int. Literacy Day: Discussing growing literacy challenges confronting African descents

Daily Dispatch September 8, 2021

By: Lateef Ositelu Literacy according to Oxford Advance Learner Dictionary is defined as an ability to read and write as well as to understand. This reading ability ordinarily entails studying in an organized institution but findings showed that Africans got the encounter only during the

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OAU dismisses another lecturer for sexual misconduct

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2021

In its avowed determination to maintain zero tolerance for every form of sexual intimidation, harassment and, or coercion, the governing council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has dismissed another lecturer, Dr. Adebayo Mosobalaje, for sexual demeanor against a female student. The spokesman of the university, Abiodun Olarewaju, said in a statement that the

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Mixed reactions trail scrapping of UTME benchmark

Daily Dispatch September 5, 2021

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recent scrapping of general cut off marks for admission into the country’s tertiary institutions by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that JAMB had at its Aug. 31, 2021 virtual policy meeting said that tertiary institutions were now to set their own […]

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FUOYE gets new PRO

Daily Dispatch September 5, 2021

The Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), has named its Chief Information Officer to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina, Mr. Foluso Ogunmodede as its Public Relations Officer (PRO).Ogunmodede, a seasoned journalist took over from Mr. Yinka Ademuyiwa.Ogunmodede, whose appointment as the university’s Public Relations Officer took effect from 1st

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Story telling hour: Winners of competition given landed property

Daily Dispatch September 3, 2021

By:- Adémólá Òrúnbon Three winners of the just concluded three-day story telling hour/reading activities, skill acquisitions and other related programme organised by the State Library Services, for students in primary and secondary schools across Ogun State have been rewarded with a plot of land each. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi

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Teenager arrested for tampering UTME result

Daily Dispatch September 3, 2021

A 19-year-old candidate in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination has been arrested by the police for allegedly tampering with his result. The spokesman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Fabian Benjamin, said the arrest followed the suspect’s claim of scoring 380 in the examination conducted in June. “After several enquiries, 265 kept