Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has donated N20 million to facilitate the eventual take-off of the Faculty of Engineering of Nassarawa State University, Keffi. The money is said to enable the take-off of the faculty in the 2020/2021 academic session. Sule made the donation on Saturday during the 2nd stakeholders meeting of the university in Keffi. He said that the establishment of the faculties of Health Sciences and Engineering would assist in providing the needed manpower to dev...

You may have been thinking of how to choose a course that fits you or factors to consider when choosing a course of study, and in this article, we will try to explain how to make that choice. However, this is a very complex question that if not properly answered could mar your career choice. For some, choosing a university course is easy, because they have known for years what they want to be when they grow up. Though, there are also some challenges explained in how to choose a course t...

According to the latest rankings of Universities in the World recently released by Times Higher Education, Covenant University, a private Christian University located in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria has been ranked as West Africa’s best University and ultimately coming tops as Nigeria’s best University. Covenant University describes on its website as “a growing, dynamic vision-birthed, vision-driven University, founded on a Christian mission ethos and committed to pioneering excellence at...

The University of Lagos, Akoka, has confirmed the death of one of its workers, Sunday Meshioye, who allegedly took insecticide, sniper. The Principal Assistant Registrar and Head of Information Unit, UNILAG, Mrs Taiwo Oloyede, said Meshioye, a driver attached to the Sociology Department, Faculty of Social Science, was facing a panel over a bus in his care which got burnt. She noted that the committee had yet to conclude investigation when the incident happened. She said, “A driver with ...

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, standing as the largest and most diverse university rankings ever to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The only university ranking to be independently audited by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, an...

All is now set for the hosting of the September 2019 edition of the CIAPS Public Lecture. The theme of this month’s lecture is “Fundamentals of Public Speaking”. Keynote speaker will be CIAPS Director, Anthony Kila, a renowned public speaker and researcher of public communication. The event slated for Thursday,26th September, will start at 11 am and finish at 12:30 pm but will have its red carpet open at 10.30am. Commenting on the CIAPS Public Lecture series, CIAPS Centre Director Anthony Kila...

Members of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) at the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State have refused to conduct second-semester examinations billed to start today over a disagreement between one of the lecturers and the president of the Students’ Union Government. DAILY POST gathered that the crisis began when a car belonging to the lecturer reportedly caused an accident where it was parked within the premises of SUG, in which two students were injured. According to the SUG Pres...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has arrested a 19-year-old girl for falsifying her 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score. The UTME candidate identified as Rejoice Mordi was arrested at JAMB headquarters in Bwari area of Abuja, where she turned up in the company of her father to lodge a complaint of getting two result slips from JAMB after increasing her score from 164 to 264. Upon interrogation, Mordi confessed to getting the fake result from o...

As state begins distribution of free textbooks, exercise books Few days after the review of the Oyo State’s 2019 budget in which the budgetary allocation to education was increased from three to 10 per cent, the State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has announced that budgetary allocation to the education sector will go up to 12 per cent from 2020. Gov Seyi Makinde Makinde who made the promise at the kick-off of the distribution of free textbooks and exercise books to all students in the sta...

The Management, Staff and Students of the University of Port Harcourt have commended the former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi for his contributions to nation-building. The school also thanked the Minister for his donations and the impact made during his tenure as Governor of the State. Speaking at the 2019 University of Port Harcourt International Conference on Language and Literature, with the theme, “Language, Literature and Governance: ...