Agency Report The newly appointed Registrar, Ekiti State Polytechnic, Isan-Ekiti, Mrs Abimbola Adewumi, has on Tuesday resumed office. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adewumi was appointed on January 23 as the second substantive registrar of the polytechnic. She holds a BA.Ed. in English from the Lagos State University, as well as a Masters…
By Solomon Odeniyi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board would no longer conduct admissions for the Law programme in eight universities. JAMB spokesman, Fabian Benjamin announced the development in a statement on Wednesday. According to Benjamin, the decision was taken following the suspension of the Bachelor of Laws programme by the Council of Legal Education…
By Chika Otuchikere 119 students of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, have bagged the school’s first-class degree as the school graduated 5,826 students in the 2023- 2024 academic session. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Faruk Kuta, made this known on Tuesday, during a pre-convocation media briefing at the permanent site of the institution…
By Gbenga Oloniniran The Great Ife Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has warned students and the entire university community against cultism and cult-like activities on the campus. The union leaders in a statement sent to The PUNCH on Sunday gave the warning, noting they had observed “with great concern, certain cult-like…
By Adesina Wahab A total of 115 are graduating in the first class category, as Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State holds its 34th convocation ceremony. Disclosing this at a press briefing held as part of the events for the ceremony in Ago Iwoye, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ayodeji Agboola, said a total…
By Tunde Oyekola The University of Ilorin has appointed two new Deputy Vice Chancellors, Professors Taibat Odunola-Bakare and Mukhtar Adeiza Etudaiye, to succeed Professors Olubunmi Omotesho and Sulaiman Ambali, whose tenures ended in December 2024. A statement issued on Friday by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, announced that the appointments were…
By Bankole Taiwo The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday awarded scholarship grants of N5.8m to 29 indigent students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. Each student received N200,000. The OOU branch of the ASUU bore the burden of 27 scholarships while the ASUU national body awarded two students. Presenting the grants at the…
By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Three students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, on Friday lost their lives in a road crash that occurred along the Ilisan-Ago-Iwoye road. The spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, who disclosed this in a statement she made available to newsmen in Abeokuta on Saturday, noted…
By Tunde Oyekola President-elect, Nigerian Academy of Science and Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Designs, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Abubakar Sambo, has said that the frequent collapses of the national grid can be abated by regionalisation of the grid. Sambo gave this insight on Thursday while delivering the 12th convocation lecture of Kwara…
