By Adegbenro Adebanjo His studentship was withdrawn by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, OAU, after he failed to meet up to the minimum standard . And so after five years sojourn all came to nothing in 2014. Six years after, he has graduated with a First Class from the Federal University of Technology Akure, […]
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By Adegbenro Adebanjo In 2012 she was a final year student of Biology at the Federal University of Technology Akure FUTA. However in the same year she was involved in a debilitating road accident that changed the course of her life and made her wheelchair bound. In 2019, seven years after the accident, she applied […]
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Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, at the weekend, said his administration had approved N200 million as Yearly State Education Intervention Fund to raise the bar of learning and academic excellence in the tertiary institutions. He also endowed the best graduating student’s award with N1 million yearly in honour of his late father, Dr. Emmanuel Adesanya […]
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Aishatu Musa Dalil, 18, has emerged the overall winner of the BBC Hausa Short Story Writing Competition tagged: “Hikayata”. She won the context with the story ” Hakkina” (My Right) and was announced the overall winner on Friday night in Abuja. She was awarded a cash prize of 2000 dollars and a plague. The second […]
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has allocated N12 billion for the establishment of 12 additional Centres of Excellence (COEs) in tertiary institutions. Each of the 12 centres will get N1 billion for take-off with a five-year funding period. Under its 2020 intervention, the agency said it created 12 TETFund Centres of Excellence in universities. […]
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Irele Moyinoluwa Deborah from the Economics Department of the Redeemer University (RUN), Ede, Osun State stole the show at the 13th convocation ceremony of the institution last week with her emergence as the best graduating student. Surprisingly she had had to abandon her course as a student of Agric-Economics after four years stint at Ladoke […]
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also transfers principal, Oyo State Training School for the Blind commences immediate probe Oyo State Government has ordered the immediate suspension of three staff members, and transfer of the Headteacher, Oyo State Basic School, Ogbomoso and the Principal, Oyo State Training School for the Blind. The staff members were handed immediate suspension and transfer following […]
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Taiwo Oluyale and Kehinde Olulaye, who graduated with First Class at the 2019/2020 academic session were the cynosure of all at the convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Technology, Akure ( FUTA) at the school auditorium. Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Joseph Fuwape, who heaped praises on the sisters, said the institution stood […]
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The University of Benin has granted amnesty to over 500 students who have overstayed in the university. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lilian Salami, announced this on Thursday in Benin in her address at the 46th and 47th combined Convocation and 51st Founders’ Day ceremonies of the institution. She said the university had also […]
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By Kennedy Ikantu Peretei All over the world, there is consensus to the fact that, education is a critical element of development. Nelson Mandela described education as ” the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. In the words of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, “in order to attain the goals of economic […]
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