By Modupe Ogunji, Victoria Nwachukwu & Josiah Oghagbon The West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WAEC, has commenced the registration for 2021 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for second series. The body, in an advertorial signed Monday, by its Head of National Centre, Patrick Areghan, rolled out certain rules and regulations to be strictly adhered to. […]

‘”It must however be noted that it is Omomeewa today who knows who might fall victim tomorrow?”

Bayelsa students have decried the deplorable state of hostels in the state’s two Universities. The students bared their minds in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited the two universities in Amassoma and Otuoke in Bayelsa. Some of the students at the Niger Delta University( NDU) Wilberforce, Amassoma, Bayelsa, in […]

By Joseph Erunke THE Federal Ministry of Education, Friday, announced the reappointments of Professor Ishaq Oloyede and Professor Abubakar Rasheed as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, by President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement to this effect by the Director of […]

By Adesina Wahab A former student of the Lagos State University, LASU, Yusuf Nurudeen Alowonle, alias Omomeewa, has been shot dead by some gunmen not too far from the school main gate in Ojo, Lagos. Alowonle, who two years ago contested the position of the president of the Students Union Government of the university but […]

By Adesina Wahab A PROFESSOR of Parasitology in the Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, Lagos State University, LASU, Omolade Olayinka Okwa, has said an average student in Nigeria loses between 3-12 school days in an academic year to Malaria infection. She put the loss at between 2-6 percent of the academic year. She stated […]

By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA – The lingering security  challenges in the Northeast region is taking a heavy emotional toll on parents and guardians of serving and incoming corps members, as many have appealed to the management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Scheme to redeploy them to more secure and peaceful states, Vanguard findings have […]

The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, South-West Zone, has commended the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State.

THE Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has lamented that the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) has adversely affected autonomy for universities and also impoverished it, members, in the university community.

By Umar Yusuf No fewer than 1.3 candidates are currently writing the National Examination Council, NECO, in 18,000 centres across the country, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Examination Body, Professor Ibrahim Wushishi has disclosed. The examination Council which is an alternate body for senior secondary school students seeking mandatory qualification into universities […]