EDUCATION

Supplementary UTME Satisfactory – JAMB

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has described its supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examintion (UTME) held across 170 centres nationwide as satisfactory. The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the remark in an interview with the News

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Ex-UNIOSUN student emerges best graduating medical student in Ukraine

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2017

A Nigerian, Lateefat Oyeleye Abiola, on Friday emerged the best graduating medical student at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She scored 95.6 per cent to emerge the best, not just at her university, where she beat 564 other students, but overall in the country. The announcement that her score was the best in […]

EDUCATION

Schools remain close in Southern Kaduna until security improves- Govt

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The Kaduna State government has disclosed that the closure of some schools in southern Kaduna will continue until the security situation improves. The Commissioner for Education and Technology, Prof. Andrew Nok, his counterpart in the Health Ministry, Dr. Paul Manyan Dogo and the governor’s Senior Special Assistant Samuel Aruwan disclosed this yesterday. They said: “The

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NANS rejects fee increase by universities

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will resist plans by some tertiary institutions to increase tuition fees, its President, Mr Chinonso Obasi has said. Obasi, in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja, said that NANS had received the report that no fewer than 38 tertiary institutions had concluded plans to jack up […]

EDUCATION

38 Nigerian Universities increase tuition fees – ASUU

Daily Dispatch June 26, 2017

No fewer than 38 universities across the country have increased their tuition fees as a result of poor funding by the Federal and State governments. The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on […]

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Usman Danfodio University dismisses lecturer for altering results

Daily Dispatch June 24, 2017

The Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, said it had dismissed a lecturer (names withheld), for altering students’ results. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Zuru, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto on Saturday, but declined to mention the affected lecturer’s full details. Zuru said “that management of the university took that drastic action to […]