Category: Education

The National Examinations Council on Sunday announced that it has “extended the Registration period of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination for school-based candidates to midnight of Monday 20th June 2022.” It made this known in a statement in the early hours of Monday. The registration period was initially scheduled to close on Monday 30th […]

OAUSTECH Vice Chancellor, Prof Emmanuel Temi Ologunorisa Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, Nigeria, has rescheduled today’s planned special lecture online. A statement this morning by the institution’s Deputy Director, Information, Protocol and Public Relations, Mr Paul Busayo Adeagbo, said that the originally planned physical meeting has been moved online. The […]

sympathises with varsity students over prolonged strike The N34 billion released by the Federal government is not part of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), according to its National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke. He disclosed this in an interview on Thursday in Ota, during which he sympathised with University students over the […]

A Professor of History and the Executive Director, Office of Global Partnership-Africa, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Prof. Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, will deliver a special lecture at the Olusegun Agagu University, (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, Nigeria, tomorrow Friday, May 27. The lecture, which is titled:“The Wilson Vision and Internationalisation of Education. ” will hold […]

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu  The appointment of vice chancellors in Nigerian universities is always full of intrigues. In many cases, the selection process is marred by conflicts of interests and petitions, which often results in legal actions. By Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 2003, otherwise called Universities Autonomy Act No. 1, 2007 and Universities […]

Governing Council defends appointment as free, fair, open By Banji Ayoola The first female Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof Adenike Temidayo Oladiji, has taken over as the institution’s eighth substantive head, even as its Governing Council defended her appointment  as free, fair and transparent. She was inaugurated on Tuesday by […]

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said the board remitted N27.2 billion from 2017 to date to the Federal Government’s coffers. He made this known yesterday in Abuja at the opening session of a three-day workshop for public relations officials of the board. The workshop, organised in collaboration with […]

Students gather in front of University of Ibadan gate The Nigerian government on Monday said it has shortlisted about 8,800 students for scholarship opportunities abroad. The shortlisted students were from among the 26,000 who applied for its overseas scholarship programme backed by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). The annual PTDF scholarship has been ongoing […]