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According to media reports, the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) says no fewer than 108 fresh students of the institution were expelled for gaining admission through dubious means. The institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, disclosed this on Monday in Ilorin while exchanging views with the Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Mr Sam Okaula, who visited …
All UNDERGRADUATES from approved universities and polytechnics are hereby invited to apply for the 2016 SIGMA Tertiary Essay Competition. Stigma Club is inviting eligible youths to join in the discussion by sending in their entries on the topic below. SIGMA Tertiary Essay Competition Topic: ‘Formal Education and the Nigerian Youth: Why the Street is taking …
The National Universities Commission (NUC) is a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Education (FME). The Commission has a Governing Council, its Executive Secretary is Prof. Julius A. Okojie, who assumed office on August 3, 2006. National Universities Commission (NUC), in a bid to streamline the operations of Part Time and Sandwich programmes in Nigerian universities, has released a …
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured parents and candidates that it had addressed the logistics lacuna experienced in the 2016 examination, ahead of the 2017 exercise. The examination body said that henceforth, it would place more priority on centre accreditation, before the commencement of …
The corpse of a man which was pulled out of Lake Michigan near Promontory Point Park, Chicago on May 8, has been identified as a Nigerian medical student, Ambrose Monye, who had been missing for more than two weeks, Fox news reports. The 28-year-old who was a fourth-year medical student at the University of Guadalajara …
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Vice Chancellor of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), Prof. Mohammed Akaro-Mainoma has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapter in the institution to return to the negotiation table in order to end its lingering strike. Akaro-Mainoma appealed on Sunday in an interview with NAN correspondents in …
The Queensland University of Technology, Australia is offering online course on Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations. This three-week course is open for everyone and there is no special prior experience or knowledge required to join in. In this course, the applicants will learn how can they tap into social media conversations, …
American University of Nigeria’s (AUN) best graduating student, Gregory Tanyi born in Cameroun, has said his passion and long term goal is to help the blind and people with disabilities by connecting them to the Internet. He disclosed this to journalists yesterday during the 2016 graduation ceremony of 209 students of the school in Yola, …
The University of Geneva is offering an outstanding environment for study and research in the molecular life sciences in a beautiful natural setting. Highly motivated students with a Master’s degree or equivalent can apply to the program. Apply for June application deadline. Program is available in following subjects: Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology Genetics and …
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the school of Nursing Katsina, katsina sate for a three year program in Basic General Nursing ELIGIBILITY: All applicants should possess five credits in SSCE which must be in english, maths, biology, chemistry and physics in not more than two sittings. A combination of …
The general public is hereby informed that whereas the National Universities Commission (NUC) maintains its stand that online degrees are not accepted in Nigeria at the moment, this does not include the approved Nigerian Universities e-Learning Programme run within the shores of Nigeria. The Nigerian Universities e-Learning Programme is a legitimate and well thought out …
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has observed with great concern that some Nigerian universities are running unapproved postgraduate programmes, leading to the award of Masters and PhD degrees. The Commission has also observed that some Parastatals and Institutes are awarding these same Postgraduate degrees, either on their own or through unapproved affiliations with Nigerian and …
