…Denies indulging in illegal admissions By Joseph Erunke THE University of Abuja has pointedly told the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, that it lacked constitutional powers to meddle in admissions into universities. It also refuted last week’s allegations by the nation’s tertiary institutions’ examination’s body that it was engaging in “Illegal admissions”, outside the […]

ABUJA–THE Governing Council of University of Abuja has approved the appointment of Prof. Clement Barikuma Innocent Alawa and Prof. Abubakar Sadeeque Abba as Deputy Vice-Chancellors Academic and Administration, respectively.

THE University of Abuja has set up a committee to investigate the remote and immediately causes of recent protest by its students.

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The Management of the University of Abuja has appealed to all law-abiding students to not partake in disrupting the 2019/2020 Academic Calendar, considering the amount of time lost to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and COVID-19 pandemic. The institution said it was putting all necessary […]

By Joseph Erunke The University of Abuja has been selected as one of the six centres of competence in digital education in African universities. The other universities are the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania; Moi University, Moi, Kenya; Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda; École Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications, Dakar, Senegal and […]

THE Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, in the University of Abuja, staged a peaceful protest Tuesday, to draw attention to what they referred to as federal government’s injustice to them.

By Joseph Erunke THE University of Abuja has entered into a partnership with Diabetes Africa, a network of health professionals, to establish a top-class educational programme on Diabetes Education that will improve the quality of care offered to diabetes patients across Africa. A statement to this effect,Sunday,by the university’s Head, Information and Public Relations,Dr Habib […]

BY Victoria Ojeme The Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja ( UNIABUJA) Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, had recently announced that the certificates of 14,307 students, who graduated from its programmes from 1994 to date, are ready for collection. Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, who spoke at the main campus of the university, said never again would the university record […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The Governing Council of the University of Abuja has approved the promotion of six academic staff to the rank of professor and four others to the rank of associate professor with effect from 2018 and 2019. A statement, Sunday by the university’s Head, Information and Public Relations, Dr Habib Yakoob, […]

…Refuses to accredit Computer Science By Joseph Erunke ABUJA – THE National Universities Commission, NUC,has accredited Law and 13 other academic programmes of the University of Abuja. While ten academic programmes were given full accreditation, four others had interim accreditation,according to a statement, Sunday,by Dr Habib Yakoob, Head, Information and University Relations, University of Abuja. However, the commission refused […]