The national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will this weekend be honoured by the Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, will be honoured with a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa of the University at the third Convocation of the university on [...]
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa on Thursday suspended the Vice Chancellor of the state university, Keffi, Prof. Shamsudeen Amali. A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Hajiya Zainab Abdulmumin, said the governor also directed the management of the university to proceed on a 6-month compulsory leave. [...]
Gunmen on Sunday shot dead a Nigerian lecturer , Malam Murtala Mohammed, of the Mass Communication Department of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) at his residence in Maiduguri. Witnesses said Mohammed was shot at his 202 Housing Estate, opposite the university campus. “He was shot at close range by a group of teenagers shortly after [...]
A Nigerian female scientist has bagged a prize of $100,000, as one of the winners of the 2013 L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards in Physical Sciences. Professor Francisca Okeke, the first female Head of Department, University of Nigeria Nsukka bagged the 2013 Laureate award for her significant contributions “to the understanding of daily variations of the ion currents [...]
Only 4,522 of 55,223 candidates who applied were able to secure admission into University of Calabar for the new academic session, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor James Epoke, has said. Epoke who disclosed this while administering the oath of matriculation on the new students on Friday in Calabar described the matriculation ceremony “as the occasion for [...]
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The Deputy Vice Chancellor of Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, Professor Ernest Izevbigie, has announced a major breakthrough in the management of cancer, diabetes and prostate enlargement, with the announcement of a new drug for the treatment of the ailments. He made the announcement at a press briefing organised by the University to [...]
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Monday in Kano, raised alarm over what it described as high-handedness of Federal and state governments in the handling of issues concerning the welfare and security of students and lecturers in the country. ASUU leadership expressed concern over the inability of university authorities across the country [...]
