Four hundred Nigerians are serving jail term in various Chinese prisons, Treasurer of Nigerian Students Association, Alhaji Tukur Hassan Tingilin, has disclosed to Vanguard Learning.
Tingilin, a student of Tianjin University of Technology and Education, studying, Mechanical Manufacture and Automation, who spoke exclusively with Vanguard in Bejing, quoted the Nigerian Ambassador in China, Ambassador Aminu Wali, as saying that majority of affected Nigerians were jailed for drug related offences.

“I can’t validate anything like that because I just came to close down the school. I’m here to close the campus down; we are closing the school in 30 days. Academic programmes have since stopped”. Pete Sith, President Saint Paul’s College, Virginia, U.S.A

Nigerian universities have again proven to be globally competitive in their tripartite functions of teaching, research and community service as three more universities: Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife; Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and Benue State University (BSU) Makurdi, have won grants in the on-going World Bank-assisted Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) project. With the new development, Nigerian institutions now have 10 out of the 18 ACE projects in Africa.

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountant’s global president, Malcolm Furber, will outline how Nigerian organisations – in both the state and private sectors – can be both successful and sustainable if they utilize the skills of Chartered Global Management Accountants (CGMAs).

The Association of Deaf, has appealed to Kogi State government to open up the Universal Basic Education(UBE)Special School approved for the Deaf by the Federal Government.