The International Accreditation Organization, IAO, a United States based worldwide education accreditation agency has appointed a world renown educator, Prof. Peter Uchenna Peter Nwangwu, as its honorary Vice President.
Vice Chancellors of all the 117 universities in Nigeria including registrars, bursars and librarians are in Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, for the 26th Conference of the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU). This is the first time a private university is hosting the conference for four days.
Academic and commercial activities were grounded at the University of Ibadan yesterday as thousands of students staged a peaceful protest against non-availability of power supply on the campus.
The routine class room teaching and child training at Adeniyi Jones Primary School, Ikeja, Lagos, took another dimension recently following a petition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police and the Universal Basic Education over assault on one of its pupils by her guardian.
With a shared vision that education is a key driver for the development of Africa’s social and economic landscape, MultiChoice Africa and Eutelsat Communications, supported by Mindset Learn, have assembled their expertise to initiate a pan-African student competition called the “DStv Eutelsat Star Awards”.
All vehicles and other items purchased for the use of the National Assembly must remain the properties of the National Assembly until they are fit for boarding. They must never be sold to members of the Assembly under any pretext. It has now been revealed by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission that it is not aware of the Jumbo allowances members of the National Assembly pay themselves.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has said that it is targeting a market value of listed securities of N153 trillion ($1 trillion) by the year 2016.
Alofos Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), a Non-Governmental Organization promoting Science & Technology education in Nigeria, held her inauguration with a guest lecture and an Expo for students of secondary schools in Lagos.
Participants at the recently concluded workshop on Shipping and Trade Facilitation held in Abuja have frowned at the exploitation of Nigerian shippers’ by foreign shipping companies operating in the country
The management of the of the West and Central Africa Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Abuja MoU) led by its Secretary General Mrs.
The 7th Aelex Annual Lecture scheduled to hold on July 7,2011, with the titled “Corruption: The Thief in Broad Daylight,” will hold at MUSON Centre, Lagos. The key note address will be delivered by Kenyan anti-corruption advocate, John Gothingo.
The World Customs Organization, the highest policy making global customs council may be set for three-day brainstorming session to establish a functional single window environment for goods clearance as the 180 member heads of Customs administration meets in Brussels, the Belgian capital this week.
The word, Music according to Concise Oxford English Dictionary is defined as , “the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds or both to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion.”
Ondo State is the only missing block in the new South-West political map redrawn by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the last election. The party has swung into action to fill the gap. However, political analysts doubt the possibility with a Labour Party government waxing stronger under the leadership of Governor Olusegun Mimiko. But the Chairman of the ACN in the Sunshine State, Chief Jumoke Ajasin-Anifowose, a lawyer and former Attorney-General on Ondo State, told Vanguard in an exclusive interview recently in Owo that, “whether the Labour Party likes it or not, we will take over the government of Ondo State come 2012.
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