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Staff of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, Ondo State,   are threatening to go on strike after being owed nine months salary. The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) said its members could no longer work under the present condition, asking state Governor ROTIMI AKEREDOLU to come to their rescue. ASUP Chairman Comrade RAFIU IJAWOYE in an interview with news men revealed that the academic staff members of the institution had been going to classrooms on empty stomachs and deploring   a June 28 memo issued by management,  apologising for the delay in the payment of June salaries. He also condemned a statement credited to the Governing Council Chairman, Mr Banji Alabi,  that all workers’ salaries had been paid up to May 2018. Ijawoye said the union would meet to discuss the next line of action if the school failed to pay them.

Six Hundred and Two (632) students have graduated from Benson Idahosa University Benin city, Edo state with Forty nine of them bagging a First Class degree. Vice Chancellor of the institution , Prof .SAM   GUOBADIA while speaking during the 14 th convocation ceremony of the school revealed that out the Eighty Four   (84 )Students   graduated with Second Class (Upper Division) , Three Hundred and Eighteen (318 )second class ( Lower Division), while Fifty Two (52) students bagged a third class   degree . The institution also conferred 60 masters degree, 38 post-Graduate and 1 Doctorate degrees honours on some of the grandaunts.

Report says a 200- level female student of Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto disrupted Mathematics lecture after a strange display of action.   According to report, the undergraduate lady was said to have been possessed by evil spirit with her strange behaviour The scary display at the PTF Lecture Hall of the campus according to information saw some of her colleagues round her up, while some students were reciting Arabic Verses instead of taking her to the school clinic as she later regained consciousness. Information on campus had it that the lady was possessed by evil spirit

Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye and Tai Solarin University of Education  (TASUED), Ijagun in Ogun State have all fixed dates for the screening exercise for candidates to be admitted for 2018/2019 academic year. According to reports , the OOU screening will hold from Monday 30th July to Friday 3rd August, 2018 while that of TASUED is fixed for 24th July, 2018. Applicants eligible for OOU admission include UTME candidates that picked and did not pick the University with a minimum score of 180 in the UTME examination and also Direct Entry candidates with A level results and diploma certificate that applied for the entry through JAMB into the University with a minimum of Upper credit. Eligible candidates for the university should visit the admission website http://portal.oouagoiwoye.edu.ng/application/apply.php and make a payment of N2000 For TASUED eligible applicants includes UTME candidates who chose the institution as their first or second ...

The Ajayi Crowther University (ACU) Management wishes all students of the institution the very best in the ongoing Semester Examinations and urges all to put in their best in order to come out in flying colours. Students are allowed to travel home for the mid-semester break after completing their examinations. Students who wish to remain on campus during the mid-semester break will be allowed to do so on condition that they will be of good behavior and conduct themselves in decent and morally upright manner, and in strict compliance with the rules and regulations of the University. Such students must also present written consents of their parents to remain on campus during the break. Newly admitted students who constitute stream B of the University’s admissions this year will continue with their lectures during the ongoing examinations until the commencement of their own examinations on Monday, February 19, 2018. They will also be granted a few days brea...

Dangote group of companies has donated #1.2b structure for the Bayero University`s Bussines School. The Business Schools being undertaken by the Aliko Dangote Foundation, according to the President of Dangote Group is part of the efforts to build entrepreneurship in the sub-consciousness of Nigerians through education at the highest level. In his commitment to encouraging entrepreneurship in the country as a way out of the economic doldrums, Nigeria’s business magnate, Aliko Dangote, is donating another N1.2 billion structure for running of business school in Bayero University, Kano ( BUK ). The building which will be handed over to the university management formally next month is a state of the art edifice and will effectively mark the commencement of study of business in the institution and the first in the Northern part of Nigeria. It would be recalled that Dangote is also building a similar business school in the University of Ibadan and...

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has commissioned an arts gallery in the University of Uyo ( UNIUYO ) in honour of his mother in-law, Late Professor (Mrs.) Stella Idiong. Late Mrs. Idiong was the first female professor of Fine and Industrial Arts in the country, hence the building of the arts gallery by her family to   showcase her works. The gallery was built ten years after her death as a memorial, to also showcase her works and promote art in the institution. Speaking at the Main campus of the University, Governor Emmanuel commended the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Enefiok Essien for allowing the sponsors of the gallery build the arts center in the school.