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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has commenced an indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s inability to meet up with various agreements entered with the union. ASUU had declared a two-week warning strike on March 9, 2020, due to skeletal and actual non-implementation of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and
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A 60-year-old inmate was among 25 others, who participated at the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), by the JAMB at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre school yesterday in Lagos. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who monitored the examination, reports that the process commenced at about 9.45 a.m after they were
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By Mathew Dadiya, Laide Akinboade, Abuja and Vincent Nyinongu, Makurdi The devastating effect of Coronavirus reached a climax yesterday, as four new cases were recorded in Lagos even as the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari proceeded on self-isolation on return from the United Kingdom. Reports at our disposal showed that over seven states have shut schools,
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From Alfred Babs, Ilorin The authorities of the University of Ilorin said they had plans to distribute preventive kits of Corona Virus to students as four foreign students screened tested negative to the pandemic. Coronavirus Prevention Committee of the University of Ilorin has said that it has screened four foreign students
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Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom has said he was offering education opportunities to girls from Chibok in Borno and Dapchi in Yobe, whose academics were halted by Boko Haram activities. Ortom made the offer at Gwer local Government Area shortly after inspecting new facilities at Government Girls Model Secondary
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By John Onah, Abuja The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has done nothing wrong by stopping candidates from writing examination for late arrival maintaining that it was a laid down regulation of the board. JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this at one of the centres
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By Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari Monday granted full scholarship up to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree level to three secondary students who emerged winners at the year 2020 Young Nigerian Scientists Presidential Award Competition. The scholarship, according to the President, was in any science-related discipline of their choice at
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By Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The President of the African Export-import Bank (Afreximbank) Prof. Benedict Oramah, has said that ”the new Africa” presents the continent’s youth with an excellent battleground to join and wage the economic struggle that would finally liberate the continent from the economic quagmire. Speaking on the topic “Unleashing the
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About 55 per cent of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have been registered in the newly introduced Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS so far and those who have not been registered will not get February salary. This was stated by the Minister of Finance, Budget
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The ceremonies, which had earlier been scheduled to hold between March 9 and 12, has been suspended over a supremacy battle between the university management and the chairman of the institution’s governing council, Wale Babalakin. The university’s vice-chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, had on Monday, addressed a press briefing ahead of the ceremonies, giving details
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