The Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta (MAPOLY), Tokunbo Fowode, has read the riot act to the students against cultism and examination malpractice.

I once saw a post on someone’s Blackberry that made me laugh. It read: “Nigerian Girls, now that we are all bald, are you happy?” That was just the beginning. On a Nigerian social networking site, someone posted this with a picture to boot. The picture had a bald Caucasian lady (perhaps Brazilian) sitting in the dark.

STUDENTS and staff of the Lagos State University- Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication, LASUAASOC, Surulere, have continued to shower encomiums on the out-going Dean of the school, Prof. Abduraheem Lawal, on his immense performance during his four-year administration.

Government’s dream of providing housing for all may become reality sooner than later following research work by some researchers in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Lagos.

Two Nigerian citizens studying in the University of Birmingham, UK are doing Nigeria proud. Kame Tseja from Kogi State and Jennifer Omige from Edo State both final year students of Chemical and Energy Engineering, will be leading their school team to this year’s World N-Power challenge.

THE Federal Government has issued licenses to the five newly approved universities, warning them against running unapproved programmes in their various institutions.

Six thousand students matriculated on Saturday ,February 25 to become bonafide students of the University of Nigeria with a charge from the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Barth Okolo to ensure they meet the attendance requirement and shun cultism.

A new lease of life greeted staff and students of University of Calabar (UNICAL) recently, when they met at the school’s new Faculty of Arts Auditorium to rededicate the institution after its nearly six months closure. The closure was as a result of students riot last August.

Minister of State for Education, Mr Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, a lawyer, has declared that the Federal Government will deliver 100 Almajiri schools to the 19 Northern states by June this year.

Tertiary institutions across the country have received a boost under the Train the Trainers programme where Vice-Chancellors, Deputy Vice- Chancellors, Provosts, Rectors, Registrars, Deans, Heads of Department and other principal stakeholders in our tertiary institutions were meant to be trained on how to run an institution with little or no stress.