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Armed security operatives on Thursday besieged the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti apparently to forestall further protest from workers over the latest sack of over 600 employees in the institution.This came barely four days after…

Varsity workers will begin a nationwide strike on Monday over the issue of Earned Allowances, sacked workers of University Staff Schools and other sundry issues affecting their members and the university system.The President of Senior…

THE Plateau State University Bokko will start a Faculty of Health Sciences and a Faculty of Law in 2020, Prof Yohanna Izam, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, has said.Izam told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Bokkos…

AL-QALAM University, Katsina, has donated relief materials worth over N300,000 to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by bandits attacks in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.Presenting the items to the…

THE Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa, has been shut down indefinitely following students’ protest over hike in tuition.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students had, on April 30,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked university administrators to be frugal and avoid waste of resources.Buhari made the call on Saturday at the second convocation of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun,…

THE long arm of the law on Tuesday caught up with a driver of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Abolade Bolaji, for allegedly conveying substance suspected to be Indian hemp into the country.The suspect,…

A university lecturer, Professor Adeolu Akande, has identified agriculture as the surest way for Oyo State to expand its economic base and survive the effects of current national economic crisis.Akande, a Visiting Professor of Political…

REGISTRY in the university system has been likened to the biological operation of the human heart which when functioning effectively pumps blood to all the cells in the body to keep it healthy and alive.The former executive…

EMINENT jurist and proprietor of the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, says that Visitors to Nigerian universities (president for federal and governors for states) have no constitutional powers to sack a vice…