Private schools are choking under the heavy tax burden imposed on them by various agencies of government across the country. These taxes range from business premises, yearly renewal fees, waste management agency fees, local government levies, emblems for school buses, merriment levies, parking fees, radio and television fees, and signage or billboards, among others. These […]
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Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar, Prof Florence Obi The Service Compact with All Nigerian Directorate of the University of Calabar has banned indecent dressing among students and staff of the university forthwith. The director of SERVICOM, Prof. Patrick Egaga, announced the ban in a statement issued on Friday in Calabar. He said that the directorate had […]
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JAMB Centre The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new date for the commencement of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). It disclosed this in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin in Abuja on Sunday. Benjamin said the UTME which was earlier scheduled […]
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The National Association of University Students (NAUS), has canvassed strict and judicious use of the N320.3bn Tertiary Intervention Fund (TETFund) approved for tertiary institutions in the country. It recalls that the executive secretary of the Tertiary Intervention Fund (TETFund), Arch. Sonny Echono, recently at the annual strategic planning workshop with heads of beneficiary institutions, announced […]
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By Kahlil Gibran Today, and on this same day of each year, man is startled from his deep slumber and stands before the phantoms of the Ages, looking with tearful eyes toward Mount Calvary to witness Jesus the Nazarene nailed on the Cross…. But when the day is over and eventide comes, humankind returns and […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N320,345,040, 835, as the 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention fund for public tertiary education institutions in the country, notably, Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education. The money was expectedly realized from the statutory 2.5 percent education tax and, perhaps, other windows of financial interventions. A breakdown of the […]
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Oyo State Executive Council has announced the appointment of HRM Ohna Sergeant Chidi Awuse, Paramount Ruler of Emuoha Kingdom, as the Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso. Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun, announced this in a statement on Wednesday. He said the decision was reached during the […]
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Ondo State’s Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Pastor Femi Agagu, on behalf of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, laying the foundation of the Jane Pelly Legacy Building, at Fiwasaye Girls’ Grammar School Akure, Ondo State, on Monday, March 27, 2023 … in the school’s premises. The one-story block of 12 classrooms was donated by the […]
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Commences academic activities in new satellite campuses The Management of Rivers State University (RSU) has announced the commencement of academic activities at the university’s satellite campuses in Ahoada, Emohua, and Etche councils of the state. The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Nlerum Sunday Okogbule, while highlighting the achievements of the institution, yesterday, in Port […]
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Unattended candidates to write test today, tomorrow Parents and candidates for the rescheduled 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mock were yesterday, disappointed, as the test could not hold in many centres due to technological hitches. In other centres across the Lagos metropolis, applicants, scheduled to write the examination at 7:00 a.m., waited in vain, […]
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