Author: Vreporters

  • 20-year-old Nigerian Emerges Overall Best Graduating Student in U.S. Varsity

    A 20-year-old Nigerian I student from Rivers State, Miss Alaba Ann Tam Danagogo, has emerged as the 2021 overall best scholar at the Syracuse University in New York, the United States of America (U.S.A). Graduating with distinctions in Biology Major and Minor in English and Textual Studies, among other academic accomplishments, Alaba was also awarded…

  • Owerri Jail Break: Fleeing Inmate Re-arrested in Lagos After Allegedly Stealing SIM Cards, Memory Cards During Church Service

    One of the inmates who escaped from Owerri Correctional Centre, Imo State, Oyemachi Maduabuchi, has been re-arrested in Lagos after allegedly stealing a SIM card and some memory cards. The suspect was one of the inmates who escaped from the Correctional Centre during a jailbreak on April 5, 2021. He was re-arrested by the Lagos…

  • NANS Berates Ekiti Varsity Management Over Plan To Charge N100,000 as Acceptance Fee

    NANS Berates Ekiti Varsity Management Over Plan To Charge N100,000 as Acceptance Fee

    The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has berated the management of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti (BOUESTI) over plan to charge prospective students N100,000 as acceptance fee. Deputy Coordinator of South-West Zone (NANS ZONE D) Comrade Oladimeji Uthman, in a statement issued on Tuesday noted that the management of BOUESTI…

  • OAUTHC Sends Message To Job Applicants On Interview, CBT Screening

    Management of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, OAUTHC, has given an update on the interview for applicants seeking employment opportunities in the medical facility which was earlier scheduled to hold between Monday, 31 May and Friday, June, 2021. Director of Administration, S.O. Fawole in a statement titled, ‘Postponement of recruitment exercise at Obafemi…

  • Anambra Governorship Poll: INEC Sends Message To Nigerians

    Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Yakubu Mahmoud has assured Nigerians that the Governorship election will hold in 2022, Nigerian Tribune reports. Mahmoud, who was represented by the National Commissioner of the commission, Dr Adekunle Ogunmola gave the assurance in his remark at the opening of the National Retreat On The Validation Of The Draft…

  • FG Reveals Plan To Increase TraderMoni From 10,000 To 50,000, Speaks On N-power Backlog

    The Federal Government has revealed its plans to raise the TraderMoni facility from N10,000 to N50,000 under the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs), as part of ongoing efforts aimed at improving business activities across the country. Special Adviser to the President on National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs), Dr Nasir Mahmoud, disclosed this in Abuja during…

  • Strike Looms In Varsity, as SSANU Decries Non-Implimentation of MoA, Insecurity

    Nigerian university workers, under the aegis of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), have again warned the federal government against paralysing academic activities in tertiary institutions with the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) both parties signed. SSANU decried the growing insecurity across tertiary institutions in the country, saying none of its members…

  • UNIABUJA Expels 46 Students Over Misconduct

    Management of the University of Abuja has expelled forty six students over their involvement in various acts of misconduct in breach of their sworn matriculation oath. Head, Information and University Relations, Dr Habib Yakoob, conveyed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He disclosed five other students were rusticated for one semester, the cases…

  • Gulak’s Death is ‘Professional Assassination’, IPOB Reacts

    Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma over the death of former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak describing his death as ‘Professional Assassination’. IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, in a statement said, IPOB members were not responsible for the killing. He further charged Governor Uzodinma to disclose how…

  • Ogunyemi Bows Out, As ASUU Gets New National Executives (Full List)

    A professor of soil science at the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Emmanuel Osodeke has emerged as the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, during a three-day conference, held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State today Sunday. Osodeke, until his appointment was the Vice president of ASUU. He…