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Nigerian Army unveils civil-military education project in Oyo
By Innocent Raphael The Nigerian Army has unveiled a civil-military education project in Oyo state . Speaking during the commissioning of a refurbished school in Ibadan on Saturday, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), emphasized the importance of both military and civilian efforts in improving the security landscape. The project, part of the Army’s Civil-Military Cooperation…
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LAUTECH undergraduate student stabbed to death in Ogbomoso
By Innocent Raphael A 200-level student of the Department of Information Science at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Basit Olamilekan, met a tragic end as he was reportedly stabbed to death by unidentified individuals on Thursday night in the Under G area of Ogbomoso. The incident, reportedly stemming from a minor disagreement between Olamilekan and some of his…
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Ekiti Varsity expels two students over assault
The management of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti (BOUESTI) has expelled two students for assaulting a female colleague in a viral video. The video which surfaced on social media platforms, showed one Miss Opemiposi Precious Bolaji, an 18-year-old 100L Mass Communication student beating her colleague identified as Miss Gloria Ajayi, a 100L Mass Communication student, in…
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UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital issues 14-day ultimatum for unclaimed corpses
The management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State, has announced that the hospital’s mortuary is overcrowded with unclaimed bodies. As a result, it granted a 14-day window for families with bodies in the hospital’s mortuary between January 2019 and June 2023 to claim them. “In view of this development, the management hereby calls on relatives who have…
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FG vows to clampdown on fake certificate holders
The Federal Government has vowed to flush out fake certificate holders in both public and private institutions in Nigeria. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, made this known on Friday in Abuja while receiving the report of an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling. The Federal Government had on January 9, set up an Inter-Ministerial Committee to examine the…
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Education is the way to grow as a nation – Oluremi Tinubu
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has stated that one of the ways a nation can advance is through its educational system. She was speaking when the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman and his management team paid her a visit in her office at the State House Abuja on Friday. The First Lady…
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TJC holds 2nd Nigerian Media Leaders’ Summit
All is set for the second edition of the Nigerian Media Leaders’ Summit, organised by The Journalism Clinic (TJC) and endorsed by the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN). According to TJC’s Founder/Director Taiwo Obe, the event, coming nearly five years to when the first was held, with no fewer than 60 senior executives from across the broad spectrum of…
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LASG backs 18 as minimum age requirement for undergraduate admission
Lagos State Government on Tuesday threw its back to the proposal to increase the minimum age requirement for university admission to 18 years, saying physical and mental maturity needed at higher education level. This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Mr Tolani Sule during a ministerial press briefing to mark the first year of the State Governor,…
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2024 UTME: 77% of 1.8M candidates scored below 200 – JAMB
By Innocent Raphael The results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has revealed that 77% of the 1,842,464 candidates scored below 200. Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Board’s Registrar, provided a detailed breakdown, indicating that 8,401 candidates scored 300 and above, 77,070 scored 250 and above, 439,974 scored 200 and above, and…
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BREAKING: JAMB releases 2024 UTME results
By Innocent Raphael The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made the announcement regarding the release of the UTME results during a press conference held at the board’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, on Monday. According to statistics from the board, a mammoth 1.94…
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