LASU VC ordered lecturers to deny indecently dressed students access to lecture halls

The vice-chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU) has directed lecturers to bar students who dress inappropriately from attending classes. The directive was contained in a memo addressed to the school’s provost, deans, heads of departments, and faculty officers. The VC said the development followed ‘continuous disregard’ for the institution’s dress code by the students. The memo reads, “The vice-chancellor having noted the continuous disregard for the university’s rules and regulations on indecent dressing by students...

UNILAG says no admission into biochemistry and petroleum & gas engineering programmes in 2023

University of Lagos (UNILAG) has announced that students will not be admitted to Biochemistry and Petroleum & Gas Engineering programmes for the 2023 academic session. The registrar, Oladejo Azeez made the disclosure in a memo on the school’s website. Azeez advised candidates for the 2023 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry to choose other programmes. The memo reads, “All prospective UTME and Direct Entry candidates for the 2023 admission exercise should please...

Special Report: Secondary School Teaching in Anambra Unsustainable, Driven by Corps Members

Findings in schools across the three senatorial zones of Anambra State have revealed that students rely nearly exclusively on corps members for teaching and learning. From the research, it is apparent that the problem dates back to a few years ago. In a filed work conducted by The West African Pilot News, between December 2022 and January 2023 across Anambra State, responses show that corps members have taken over about 70% of teaching in secondary...

ECWA’s Bingham University ban students from using smartphones

The management of Bingham University in Nasarawa State has banned students from using smartphones on campus. This was contained in a memo signed by the registrar of the school, Dr Esther Dyaji on Wednesday, 18 January. Dr Dyaji said the prohibition was a result of the abuse of smartphones by students. According to the memo, the ban takes effect immediately, and defaulters will be sanctioned and have their mobile phones confiscated. “Following repeated abuse in...

IMT Enugu Notification Of Results To Become Invalid In 2 Months

The Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu Nigeria calls on all her graduates from inception to date to apply and collect their certificates because all Notification of Results, NOR, in ex-student possession becomes invalid with effect from 31st May, 2023. In a special announcement signed by the Institute’s Registrar, Dr. Mrs. Ijeoma C. Aneke, IMT graduates are advised to apply and collect their certificates between Friday 13th January and Friday 31st March, 2023. Confirming the...

Kebbi State Government Returns over 900,000 Dropouts Back To School

The Kebbi State Commissioner for Basic Education, Hassan Shalla said the State government has successfully returned over 900,000 out-of-school children to school across the state in the year 2022. Shalla stated this to Radio Nigeria in Birnin Kebbi, noting that Kebbi is one of the states that has succeeded in returning those that left school. “The state has been rated first among the seventeen states participating in the BESDA programme in the country,” he said....

Enugu University Orders Students to Wear Faculty Uniforms to Curb Indecent Dressing

To curb indecent dressing among students, the management of Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu State, has harped on the need for students to wear their faculty uniforms with the appropriate ties and shoes. The vice-chancellor of the university, Christian Anieke, on Tuesday, regretted that most students and staff wear t-shirts with unauthorized inscriptions which are contrary to the school’s dress code. “No student is expected to wear slippers, rugged jeans, coloured hair, long fingers, fez caps,...

US Professor Fired for Showing Class Paintings of Prophet Muhammad

Hamline University in Minnesota, United States has fired a professor, Erika López Prater for showing paintings of the Prophet Muhammad to students during a lecture. It was gathered that the adjunct professor displayed the images to a global art history class during an online lecture on 6 October 2022. A student, Aram Wedatalla, president of the university’s Muslim Student Association (MSA), laid a complaint with the university’s administrators, saying she felt disrespected. The complaint was...

The Polytechnic, Ibadan Suspends Union Activities Indefinitely

The protest by students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan in the early hours of Monday has angered management of the institution and suspended the Students’ Union Executives and its activities indefinitely. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the students had earlier blocked all access roads leading to the State Government Secretariat, and at the same time, the school gate remained under lock and key, being guarded by the operatives of the Amotekun Security Outfit. The students...

Outrageous Fee: National Association Of Nigerian Students Threaten Strike

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to embark on massive protests across the country, if Federal Universities fail to rescind its recent increase in registration charges for both returning and new students. Already, the body has issued a week’s ultimatum for the management of the Universities to rescind its decision. The National Vice President of the Association, Comrade Suleiman Sarki while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri, called on stakeholders in the education sector...

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