Category: News
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Russia Expresses Readiness To Offer Admission To Willing Nigerians
The Russian Federation through it’s Ministry of Education has expressed readiness to offer admissions to Nigerians who want to further their education in Russia. The Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African Countries and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mikhail L. Bogdanov, said…
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NYSC Reveals Plan To Prosecute Fresh Graduates Who Refuse To Be Mobilized Immediately
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has revealed its plan to prosecute fresh graduates who refuse to present themselves for the Scheme’s mobilisation after the completion of their studies. Director-general of the scheme, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, made the revelation in Abuja on Friday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the NSCDC…
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Health Officer Narrates How Decomposed Body of OAU Student Was Found on Road
Punch Newspaper An environmental health officer attached to the Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State, Fatai Adejumo, on Thursday, narrated how the attention of the council was drawn to the presence of a dead body on the Ife/Ede Road by the police. Adejumo, who said the Divisional Police Officer of the More Police…
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NANS Vows To Create ‘University of Streets’ Should FG, ASUU Fail To Suspend Strike
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has vowed to create ‘University of Streets’ should the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government fail to resolve the lingering strike before 28th of this month, March, 2022. The leading students’ body stated this in a statement issued on Wednesday by its President, Sunday…
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JAMB Uncovers One Million Illegal Admissions
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said it had uncovered 1 million illegal institutional admissions. The board said it was surprised that less than five per cent of affected students’ details had been uploaded on the board’s portal by the institutions, as required. It blamed the inability of some candidates to obtain their admission…
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EFCC Arrests Ex-governor, Obiano at Lagos Airport
Immediate Former Governor of Anambra, Willie Obiano has been arrested on suspicion of fraud at the Lagos airport. The former governor has been under the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for a while. The development came hours after Mr Obiano concluded his two terms of eight years as Anambra governor.…
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Northern Businessmen Obtain N40 Million Presidential Form For Atiku
A group of Northern Businessmen have obtained N40 million presidential form for the ormer Vice-President Atiku Abubakar under Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Atiku announced this on his official Facebook page on Thursday, adding that the form was procured for him by northern businessmen under the aegis of the North East Business Community. He wrote, “Moments…
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Protest Rocks OAU Following Announcement of New VC (Video)
Some aggrieved indigenes of the ancient city of Ile-Ife protested the announcement of the newly announced Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Adebayo Bamire. The indigenes, under the aegis of Ife town and gown, had requested that a qualified Indigene should be appointed as Vice-Chancellor. Immediately the announcement was made on Thursday, some persons…
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OAU Appoints Professor of Agric, Bamire as New Vice Chancellor
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Ile-Ife, Osun State, has announced the appointment of Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, as its new substantive new Vice-Chancellor. The appointment of the new VC, according to Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Owelle Oscar Idoko, takes effect from June 7, 2022. The tenure of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope…
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Updated: Again, OAU Loses Another Female 300-level Student
About five weeks after the death of Heritage Ajibola, a part two student of Obafemi Awolowo University who lost her life after falling into a septic tank in her off-campus hostel, the University community has again been thrown into mourning mood following the death of one Ademola Nafisat, a penultimate student of Management and Accounting…