Professor Kate Azuka Omenugha has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University, formerly Anambra State University, by Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State. The appointment which came as the tenure of office of Professor Greg Nwakoby, comes to an end this weekend, is significant to the effect that this would be the first time in its twenty-three years old history that the university is having a female Vice-Chancellor. The...

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has disclosed that students’ enrolment at the basic school level across Nigeria is on the threshold of over 45 million pupils, Dr Hamid Boboyyi, Executive Secretary of UBEC stated this at a one-day meeting on promoting partnership with the organised private sector, in Abuja. Boboyyi said despite allocating over N100 billion to education every year, resources from the federal government alone can no longer run the system. According to...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been asked to stop “extorting” Nigerians who are seeking admission into higher institutions. Abdullahi Yelwa, National Publicity Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics made the plea when he presented a paper as a guest speaker at the Bauchi South Stakeholders Interactive Session organized by the Senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, Shehu Buba Umar. He alleged that JAMB has turned into a revenue generating organ causing...

Authorities of Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State, have approved a 20 per cent salary increase for staff which would take off in November. The institution’s Board of Regents chaired by Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder and chancellor of the institution gave the nod which the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abiodun Adebayo described as a ‘compassionate decision.’ The Vice-Chancellor explained that the pay raise became necessary given the prevailing economic realities spurred by the removal of the...

The Special Adviser on Youths, to the governor of Anambra State, Dr. Nelson Omenugha, has commenced a mentorship session for Anambra youths. The maiden edition of the mentorship session has been scheduled to be held on Friday in Awka the state capital, and will feature Obinna Etele, Group Managing Director of Eteleson Industries Limited. For the most part, Mr. Etele may be referred to as a born entrepreneur, having abandoned his medical studies at the...

Nigerians have expressed their deep concern over the outrageous fee new intakes of Nigerian Law School are expected to pay. A schedule of fees for the 2023/2024 session making rounds on social media shows that students are to cough up a total of N476,000. The sum caters for the students’ hostel accommodation, medical services, electricity, security services, yearbook and handbook, and a host of others. The memo on the revised fee was signed by the...

Mr. Peter Obi, former Governor, Anambra State and Labour Party Presidential Candidate in Nigeria general elections in 2023 in quest for improved primary healthcare delivery donated the sum of twenty million naira (20,000,000:00) only to the Faith Foundation Mission Hospital Nsukka, Enugu state. Obi disclosed, “The donation is my initial support to the Hospital through the Anglican Bishop of Nsukka, Rt. Rev. Aloysius Agbo, to help them commence the building of a College of Nursing...

The Kwara state government has been urged to take over the payment of Kwara State Polytechnic Ilọrin, staff salaries for six months. The Rector of the Polytechnic, Engr Abdul Jimoh Mohammed made the plea on Thursday at the 29th Convocation Ceremony of the 2022/2023 academic session. About 8,350 students graduated during the occasion including 3,000 HNDs, 5,350 ONDs, and part-time students with 102 distinctions. “Our plea is for the government to give us what I...