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A school in India has apologized after photos emerged of students wearing cardboard boxes on their heads during an exam in bizarre anti-cheating measure. The stunt, which had been intended to stop the students of Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri, Karnataka state from copying each other’s work, went viral on social media, after a staff […]

Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and others today attended the conferment of Doctor of Public Administration (Honoris Causa) on the National leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 7th Convocation of Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Saad Abubakar was honoured with honorary doctorate […]

The Bayero University, Kano (BUK) has expelled 63 students and rusticated 13 others for one year for their involvement in various forms of examination misconduct. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director, Examination, Admissions, and Records (DEAR), Amina Umar-Abdullahi and issued to newsmen in Kano on Friday. According to her, the action […]

Onyekackukwu Chukwuebuke Igwilo, a 20-year-old male Towson University resident student, has been charged in connection with the alleged rape of another student. He was charged with first-degree rape, attempted first-degree rape, false imprisonment and first- and second-degree assault in Maryland, U.S Officials said the victim was assaulted around 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the 400 blocks […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says the government has launched an electrification project in 37 federal universities across Nigeria. He said this yesterday during the maiden convocation ceremony of the Federal University, Otuoke, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Represented by the Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Dr Ramon Yusuf Suleiman, […]

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo was a Special Guest at the 8th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Osun (UNIOSUN), Oshogbo. Osinbajo delivered a ‘keynote lecture’ as one of the guest speakers who graced the occasion on Saturday, September 21. According to Laolu Akande, Osinbajo’s spokesman, the vice president spoke on the topic, “Six Decades […]

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has suspended with immediate effect payment of N3, 700 levies in all public schools in the state with immediate effect. Abiodun’s administration had come under heavy criticism in the last few weeks over the levy issue, as the governor, on Friday, during a stakeholders forum with the theme “Repositioning […]

THE vast majority of Nigeria’s top universities either do not have official electronic mailing addresses or do not actively use them in responding to enquiries and requests, The ICIR has discovered. A report published in May by The ICIR already established that the e-mailing culture among federal universities in the country is still very poor […]

Five best-performing students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have been appreciated and presented with smartphones by Globacom, in conjunction with its technology partner, Huawei. The gesture was part of the corporate social responsibility initiative of the two companies, through which outstanding students of Nigerian universities are rewarded with ICT solutions. The companies said the initiative was […]

The Chancellor of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Shehu Chindo Yamusa III has alleged that about 80 percent of Nigeria university lecturers are quacks, hence lacking the skills and method to be in the classroom. He advocated to the management of various Nigeria universities to ensure that those to be employed as lecturers have the […]