The Yobe State University has held a 2-Day workshop on the significance of study and review of manuscripts. The Chancellor of Yobe State University, Professor Mala Mohammed Daura declared the programme open with the theme: “Training of Postgraduate Students How to Handle the indigenous Manuscripts” at Good Luck Ebele Jonathan Library of the University. Daura highlighted the need for the students to concentrate on what the resource persons will put them through. He commended the efforts...

The students of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) in Nasarawa State took to the streets on Thursday in protest over the increasing spate of bandits attacks and abductions. The school’s hostels have witnessed invasion by bandits in recent times with scores of students ferried away to an unknown destination. The latest attack on Wednesday night saw all the occupants of an off-campus hostel named Confidence Lodge, except two students, abducted. The two students who...

The second professor of Mass Communication in Nigeria, Prof. Kate Azuka Omenugha, has resumed as the 4th Vice Chancellor and the 1st female Vice Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University, Igbariam. Her resumption on Tuesday as Acting Vice Chancellor of the University was marked by a smooth transition from the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Greg Nwakoby, in the Vice Chancellor’s conference room at the University. The handover witnessed by the school management...

To enhance productivity, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is embracing digital transformation, aiming to align its workforce with global trends through a comprehensive digitization strategy. Mr  Samuel Atang, Director,  office of Permanent Secretary FCTA, stated that  over 3,000 staff have been trained in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to upgrade FCTA ICT to world class standards. He noted that the best cities in the world are technologically driven, which he called on the younger...

The registration for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will run from 15 January to 26 February 2024, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, announced on Wednesday. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s public affairs director, also said the optional mock examination will be held on 7 March while the examination will take off on 19 April and end on 29 April 2024. “Candidates are enjoined to take note of these dates and other advisories issued...

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...