Nigerian University Lecturers have asked the Federal Government to reopen tertiary institutions in the country as they are ready to work following nationwide educational shutdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The lecturers under the aegis of Congress of University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), released a press statement…
Professor Omololu Soyombo, the newly-appointed acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has stepped down from his position “with immediate effect”. Recall that Soyombo was given the appointment, following the sack of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the School’s Vice Chancellor. In a statement released on Saturday August 22, Soyombo said his decision to step down was hinged…
Taylor Swift has donated over £23,000 to a teenager who started a GoFundMe appeal so she can go to University. Vitoria Mario, a Tottenham teenager, wants to become a mathematician. In her online appeal, she explained that despite being offered an unconditional place at the University of Warwick to study mathematics, she could not afford to take it…
A 500-level student of Electrical Engineering, University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Nzete Ogochukwu Patrick, has died after he was hit by a stray bullet in Ogume town in Ndokwa West local government area on Sunday, August 16. According to reports, Nzete was on his way home from church when he got hit by a stray bullet…
The management of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State has suspended one of its students, Mr Afolabi Emmanuel for allegedly hacking the website of Premium Times. Mr Adegbenro Adebayo, the university’s Deputy Director of Corporate Communications who made the announcement on Wednesday August 5 said the action of the final year student of the Department…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has rejected the timetable of the 2020 West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). Reacting to the exam body’s timetable which revealed that examination will commence on the 17th August, 2020, MURIC stated that it clashed with Muslims’ Friday prayers. MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola went on to accuse WAEC of creating a…
Gbadebo Richard, a 300-level student of the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan reportedly died on Tuesday July 28 in an industrial accident. According to Sahara Reporters, the student who was on a night shift, fell into one of the machines at the Oluyole factory of Henkel Nigeria Limited, producers of WAW detergent and…
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, has appealed to the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC to pay the allowances, tuition, and other incentives of students on its scholarship scheme in the United Kingdom as most of them have turned to beggars on the streets of the UK. During the recent…
The Ministry of Education has announced that exit classes in Secondary schools across the nation will reopen for academic activities on August 4. A statement released this afternoon July 27, by the Director of Press, Ministry Of Education, Ben Bem Goong, says students in exit classes are to resume immediately after the Salah breaks so they can take their…
The United States announced Friday, July 24, that it will not take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study. The policy change was announced in a statement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This announcement comes after the US rescinded a hotly contested order to expel those already in the US and preparing for online study because…