EDUCATION

BREAKING: JAMB sets May 26 for rescheduled exams for over 12,000 candidates

Daily Dispatch May 20, 2018

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Sunday said that it had set May 26 for a rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations for more than 12,000 candidates across the country. The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News

EDUCATION

FG releases N1.3bn earned allowances for UNN lecturers

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2018

Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka(UNN) chapter, says the Federal Government has released N1.3 billion as earned allowances of members of the union. Abada spoke to newsmen on Friday in Nsukka, at the end of an emergency congress of the union. He said the aim of the […]

EDUCATION

Truck crushes 300-Level TASUED student to death in Ogun

Daily Dispatch May 17, 2018

A 300-Level Human Kinetics student of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijebu-Ode, Kofoworola Kuku, was on Wednesday crushed to death by a truck. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the victim was knocked down on the Sagamu-Benin expressway while going to school. The development sparked wild protests by her fellow students, who blocked […]

EDUCATION

ASUP wants monitoring body for finances in tertiary institutions

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2018

The Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has called for the establishment of a special body to monitor finances in higher institutions in the country. The Chairman of the branch, Dr Yusuf Hussaini, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nasarawa, Nasarawa State […]

EDUCATION

JSS pupil, accomplice allegedly burgle VP’s office, retrieve seized girlfriend’s phone

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2018

For allegedly breaking into a school to steal phones, two persons, Qudus Bello and Teslim Mukartdas, were on Monday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. Bello, 19, a tailor, and Mukartdas, 15, a pupil, who are both residents of Oshodi, Lagos, were arraigned before the magistrate, Mrs. B.O. Osunsanmi, on four counts of conspiracy, burglary, […]

EDUCATION

In Republic of Benin, Nigerian students attend lectures in container- Presidency

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2018

Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has advised both parents and students to be wary of patronizing sub-standard universities in neighbouring countries. In a statement issued in Abuja by her Media Aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, the SSA gave the advice when Gbemileke Ogunronbi, President, National Association of