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A total of 333 students have been matriculated into various degree programmes of Nigerian Army University, (NAUB), Biu in Borno state out of the 392 offered admission. The Vice-Chancellor made the disclosure of the University, Prof Kyari…

The Ekiti State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill to amend the law of the newly-upgraded University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti, and rename it after the late former governor of old Ondo State, Bamidele…

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…