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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that the act establishing the Board forbids it from unilaterally assigning candidates to tertiary institutions as it is not only illegal to do so but it is tantamount to usurping the rights of the candidates to choose which institution and programme they want to enrol in. …

Quick Question: What does University experience mean to you? Is it just the perfect opportunity to finally run away from home and be free from your strict parents’ grasp? Is it just all about the fun, partying and all? Or is it about getting to know yourself, striving towards becoming a strong, independent individual? It’s so …

This is to inform all the fresh students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) that the management of the institution has announced that the 2019/2020 orientation programme will hold between 24th February and 1st March, 2020. The venue of the programme is Oduduwa Hall Amphitheatre. The schedule of the orientation programme is as follows:

KWCOE School Fees: This is to inform all the fresh and returning NCE regular students of the Kwara State College of Education (KWCOE), Ilorin, that the management has released the amounts they are required to pay as school fee, acceptance fee (fresh students only) and hostel accommodation fee for the 2019/2020 academic year. Also See: …

Succeeding in University Part 4: Your Past Educational Experience It is important to understand how the university is different from secondary school and how well your own past educational experiences have prepared you for what you will find in a university. This is another way in which entering university “with your eyes wide open” will …

Being an introvert, bad with the public or any other valid excuses you could come up with is not going to prevent the fact that as a student, you’re going to have to deliver a dozen public presentations in school. It’s inevitable. So the sooner you get used to it the better. You’re going to …

Once you gain admission into any Nigerian university, it is not difficult to start noticing the flaws in the system. Some things that are not right the way they should be will make your soul boil. You’ll be filled with the urge to do something, to fix this, to effect changes. Sometimes, you may succeed. …

Imagine this: The university admits thousands of strangers from all over Nigeria and even abroad. In your first year, you meet these strangers. These are the people you’re going to be spending the next four to six years within university as classmates. They’re going to be your family and your foe. What kind of strangers …

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Succeeding in University Part 5: Liking Yourself as a Student and Why That Matters Of all the factors that affect how well one does in university, attitude is probably the single most important. A positive attitude leads to motivation, and someone who is strongly motivated to succeed can overcome obstacles that may occur. In other …

PLASU Remedial admission list for the 2019/2020 academic session has been released. See details on how to check your admission status below. This is to inform all the candidates that applied for admission into the Plateau State University (PLASU) remedial programme for the 2019/2020 academic session that they can now check their admission status. The …

In Nigeria, we often like to pretend that we don’t understand mental illness. We don’t like to talk about the various forms of mental illness like depression, anxiety etc. But, our denial doesn’t erase the factual truth – that mental illness very much exists here. And among students, its effects can be devastating because there …