The war against homosexuality recorded a boost on Saturday as Singapore authorities frown at some children titles – gay books and may soon consider banning them. The titles including “And Tango Makes Three,” (about a male-male penguin couple in the Central Park Zoo); “The White Swan Express”, (A Story About Adoption),” which involves a lesbian […]
The 11 months oldn nationwide industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has been called off. The ASUP National Public Relations Officer (PRO), Clement Shema made the announcement in Abuja Saturday. According to him, the suspension decision was reached at what he described as a fruitful parley between the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The University of Jos (UNIJOS) needs over N5 billion to erect its Faculties of Veterinary Medicine, Engineering and Agriculture. Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Hayward Mafuyai made this known while briefing journalists at the Senate Chambers of the ivory tower. “The University of Jos is poised to establish and equip the […]
Federal Government and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has pegged the cutoff marks for 2014 admissions into universities, polytechnics and colleges of Education at 180 and 150 respectively. The points were resolved Tuesday, after the 5th Combined Policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, held at the JAMB headquarters in Abuja. Supervising […]
The Lagos State University (LASU) Authority has released the approved academic calendar for both fresh and returning undergraduate students for the 2013/2014 academic Session, but striking lecturers of the troubled university have refused to resume. In the details of the calendar, students are expected to resume from recess and commence online registration and lectures began […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri, Less than three months after the multi-million naira Princess Hotel, Okigwe, being constructed by Imo State Government collapsed, scores of students of the State University (IMSU) Owerri, on Friday narrowly cheated death when a storey building lecture hall and office complex gave way in the campus. The twin lecture hall which is at the completion stage, […]
Ignatius Okpara, Owerri The management of Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) says it has entered into partnership with the Technical University, Munich, Germany and the Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo to develop automobiles for the Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof Cyril Gozie Asiabaka, the project is aimed at solving […]
The University of Abuja has been shut down following students protest over the ongoing indefinite strike embarked upon by the academic staff of the institution. This announcement was contained in a circular signed by the university’s Registrar, Mallam Mohammed Modibo
Jacob Oyewale Students of the Lagos State University (LASU) on Thursday insisted the Lagos state government must reduce their school fees by 67percent. The students therefore rejected the offer of the Lagos State Government to reduce some fees by percentage points, depending on the faculty or department. The president, LASU Student Union, Comrade Nurudeen Yusuf […]
Ambiguity pervades the air as Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State finally capitulates and reduced the exorbitant tuition being paid by Lagos State University, LASU, students between 34 and 60 percent across various faculties and courses. With the reduction, the new fees is filled with confusion as the Governing Council of the school has been […]
Ignatius Okpara, Benin, Police in Benin, the Edo state capital, have arraigned two young men, before an Oredo Magistrate Court for aiding secret cult – The Supreme Eiye activities. The Prosecutor, Sylvester Omor, told the court that the offences were committed by Omoregie Ikhelue, 24; and Buhari Mohammed, 25, early June around Constain road, New […]
Police officers attached to the Rapid Respond Squad (RRS) have dispersed protesting students of the Lagos State University (LASU) who came to protest hike in school fees at the Lagos Governor’s Office with teargas and guns. Hundreds of LASU students had stormed the governor’s office on Tuesday when the State Executive Council was discussing the […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Former provost of the University of Nigeria Nsukka UNN college of medicine, professor Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba has emerged the new Vice chancellor VC of the institution. A close source to the institution who disclosed this to African Examiner in Enugu Saturday, said he defeated more than forty other contestants, including the incumbent […]
Angry students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) disrupted activities within the institution as they protested vehemently against the N30,000 late registration fee imposed on the students by the management of the school. The students brave the heavy rainfall in the day to protest what they called outrageous fee when their normal school fee is […]
It was drama on Thursday as aggrieved students of the Lagos State University (LASU) shutdown Governor Babatunde Fashola’s office in Ikeja, Lagos as they demanded immediate reversal of the obnoxious fees students were made to pay in the school. Despite assurance by the Lagos State Government that Fashola will approve a reduction in the fees […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has begged the Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram to release the 234 secondary school girls abducted in Chibok over a month ago. Fashola made this call at the celebration of Children’s Day at the Police College, Lagos, Nigeria, describing as unfair for the group to continue to […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Dozens of primary and secondary school children in Enugu state Tuesday joined their counterparts across Nigeria to mark this year’s National Children Days celebration amidst tears and grief as they wept openly while praying for the safety and speedy release of the over 200 female students of the Government Secondary School, […]
By Uche Nwosu It was John Quincy Adams who posited “to furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. According to him, education prolongs life and enlarges the sphere of existence”. This, without a doubt, is the framework on which the present Abia government under the leadership […]
And like locusts on a mission to invade a farmland, the visibly malnourished and gaunt looking students, in their hundreds, besieged the entrance gate of the school in anxious expectation of their parents and relations. They giggled and hissed intermittently on sighting a stopover of any commercial vehicle at the adjacent bus-stop; on realising the […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba Three Delta State-owned colleges of Education have threatened to drag the state government to court over its alleged insensitivity to the plight of workers of the institutions. The colleges, located in Agbor, Ika South; Warri, in Warri South; as well as Mosogar, in Ethiope West council area of the state, have been […]
