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JAMB gives update on withheld 2018 UTME results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has explained that 111,981 2018 UTME results withheld were still undergoing screening. JAMB Head of Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin, assured that the board would soon make its findings public. “There is no information on the withheld results as I speak with you. But we are working on […]
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NOUN gets new governing council

The newly reconstituted Governing Council of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has been inaugurated. A statement by Ibrahim Sheme, NOUN’s Director of Media and Publicity, said that the inauguration was performed in Abuja by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu. According to Sheme, the new council is chaired by Prof. Peter Okebukola, […]
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University to set up own refinery-VC

The University of Lagos, UNILAG, would soon set up conventional and standard locally-built refineries to boost the nation’s refinery capacity, according to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. The institution’s vice-chancellor, who made this known at the 1st Annual General Meeting, AGM, and 2nd Alumni Lecture of the UNILAG Faculty of Engineering Alumni
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Dapchi kidnapping: Borno cancel boarding school

The Borno State Government has approved the closure of all boarding secondary schools located outside Maiduguri, the state capital. This came following the recent attack on Dapchi village of Yobe state by Boko Haram gunmen, who abducted about 100 schoolgirls. The state government said it took the decision after an expanded Security Council meeting of […]