The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has made an interim remittance of N3.5 billion to the Federal Government consolidated revenue account. A statement by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media in Abuja, explained that the remittance was in line with Prof. Ishaq Oloyede’s avowed commitment to remit wholly, excess funds generated from its operations, to the Federal Government. According to JAMB, payment of over N3.5 billion had already been made to candidates by...
The Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has adopted alternative methods of teaching and learning for primary school pupils in line with the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. Chairman of the board, Prof. Mathew Sule, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos. Sule said the board had begun Television and Radio lessons for pupils in Mathematics, English and phonics, which is transmitted on the Plateau...
As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine intensifies, a professor of Immunology, Ganiyu Arinola, says Nigerian universities and research institutes have the capacity to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Arinola, a staff of the Department of Immunology, University of Ibadan, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ibadan against the backdrop of the 2020 World Immunisation Week. NAN reports that the World Immunisation Week celebrated worldwide in the...
LAGOS – With her school shut because of the coronavirus, Tolu Alagba kneels as she copies down class notes from a communal village chalkboard, the closest thing to online lessons on an island with no electricity, a boat ride from Nigeria’s megacity Lagos. Like much of the world, Nigeria ordered schools shut in late March to curb the spread of the coronavirus. But while children in many countries have shifted to online lessons, that is...
As the world scientists and researchers are now bent on coming up with at least a vaccine for coronavirus, some senior lecturers of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria are set to produce herbal seeds and plants that improve the lungs and remove the mucous that block the chambers in COVID-19 attack, which brings about seizures and deaths. Professor Habib Umar Danmalam, of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ABU Zaria said that instead of developing our local...
The Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Igwe Lawrence Agubuzu, has condoled with the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdallah Adamu, on the death of his father, Dr. Muhammad Adamu. In a condolence message on Wednesday in Enugu, Agubuzu, who is also Chairman, Enugu State Council of Traditional Rulers, said that death was sudden and shocking. “I came across the shocking and sudden demise of your father, Dr. Muhammad Uba Adamu, on an online news...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC)says the May/June 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, 2020 (WASSCE), has not been cancelled. In a statement by the Head of WAEC, Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Areghan, on Sunday, the body explained that a notice alleging the cancellation of 2020 WASSCE did not emanate from the council. The council said it was the handwork of mischief makers and consequently, false and misleading. “Our attention has been drawn to a...
The Management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo has directed the compulsory use of face masks in its campus to curtail the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. Dr. Benedicta Ehanire, Public Relations Officer of UNIBEN, announced the directive in a statement issued on Friday in Benin. “This is in line with the Edo State Government’s policy, in the efforts to check the spread of COVID-19 in the state. “Staff, residents, and visitors...
Authorities of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, said it had fumigated residential facilities of students at the institution as part of efforts to checkmate the Coronavirus pandemic. This is contained in a release signed by the registrar of the institution, Mrs. Modupe Fawale, on Thursday in Ibadan. According to Fawale, the students’ hostels fumigated are Olori Hall, Ramat Hall, Unity Hall, and Orisun Hall. She said that the fumigation was done between March 18 and March 22. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate payment of the February and March, withheld salaries of lecturers in federal universities who have not registered in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, made this disclosure in a statement signed by his new media aide, Emmanuel Nzomiwu. Ngige said the president also directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning, and the Accountant General of the...
