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President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Nigerian government cannot afford the amount of funding needed to revive the country’s educational system. Buhari also said the competition for funds had become keener because of the recent increase in the number of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The president spoke on Saturday at …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it may conduct a second 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The disclosure was made by Jamb’s registrar Prof. Is-haq Oloyede on Wednesday in Lagos while monitoring the profiling of candidates with 2021 UTME registration challenges. According to him, the …

The Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) have suspended its 65-day-old strike, following an appraisal of the report indicating the gradual implementation of the items contained in the Memorandum of Action signed between the Union and the Federal Government. National Publicity Secretary of the group, Abdullahi Yalwa said the suspension of the …

Gaining admission into the university brings joy and relief to a candidate after a long wait. But when such candidate decides to terminate his/her life in school as a result of inexplicable reasons, it is gloom and wasted efforts. Recently, Emmanuel Adedeji, a 200-level student of Management and Accounting of …

The immediate past vice-president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has emerged as the new president of the union. Mr Osodeke, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, was elected early Sunday morning during a three-day conference of the …

An undergraduate of the University of Benin, Olive Ize-Iyamu, has been declared missing by her family.   According to her older sister Constant Ebonugwu, who spoke with LIB,  she last spoke with Olive on May 17. ”I spoke to Olive on Monday, 17th of May. She was supposed to be in school. She …

The bill on the discontinuation of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC has reached the second reading at the Nigerian House of Representatives. The bill titled the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, was sponsored by a rep member Awaji-Inombek Abiante. Hon. Abiante, in the explanatory …

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim says corps members will not be forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The DG said he would rather advise that the vaccine was good for personal protection against contracting the deadly coronavirus. Ibrahim stated this on Friday in Abuja during …

The University of Jos UNIJOS has suspended academic activities for three weeks to stem the tide of worsening insecurity in the institution and neighboring environs, Tribune reports. The development comes just weeks after the University’s management ordered the closure of hostels in order to put in place adequate security around …

The Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC’s academy in Udi, Anambra is now affiliated with the Federal University of Technology, Owerri FUTO. This is as the FRSC on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FUTO for degree awarding programmes. According to the agreement signed by Corp Martial of FRSC, …