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Nigeria Law School 2015 Bar Final Exam Results Summary
The Council of Legal Education, the authority that runs the Nigerian Law School, has released the results of both the Bar Final Resit examinations held in April 2015 and the Bar Final examinations for regular students conducted in May 2015.…
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OAU SUG President Suspended Over Planned US Conference Trip
The Students Union President of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr. Omotayo Akande, has been suspended over moves to get N650,000 to attend an International Campus Conference at New York, United State of America. This was contained in a parliamentary resolution jointly signed…
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Plans On Board To Make NYSC Voluntary As Buhari Affirms Commitment To Scheme
The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi, told the President that there were plans to make the scheme voluntary and reduce the corps population to make the programme more sustainable. According to her, the annual enrolment of corps participants had…
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Nigerian Varsities Maintain High Standards Despite Low Ranking – Okojie
Prof. Julius Okojie, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), on Monday, said the standard of Nigerian universities was high in spite of their low global ranking. Okojie, who said this at the opening of a two-day workshop on African…
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NUT Opposes JAMB On Cut Off Marks
The Nigeria Union of Teachers has said it is strongly opposed to the current admission policy which pegged Joint Admission Matriculation Board cut-off marks for students seeking admission into universities at 180 and above while those for Polytechnics and Colleges…
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World Bank Releases N1.4bn To 10 Nigerian Universities
The World Bank has released the first tranche of payment, totalling N1.4bn, to 10 Nigerian universities listed among the African Centres of Excellence. The fund is for the ACE project to shore up the ranking of the universities in agriculture,…
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FCE (Special) Oyo Gets New Provost
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Professor Kamoru Olayiwola Usman as the new Provost of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo. A statement by the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the appointment of the 51- year-old Oyo-born Mr. Usman is…
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Federal Varsities Governing Councils Exempted From Dissolution
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that the Governing Councils of Federal Universities be exempted, for the time being, from the dissolution of boards of Federal Government parastatals, agencies, institutions and government-owned companies announced on July 16, 2015. All Vice-Chancellors of…
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JAMB Rescinds Plan To Redistribute Candidates With Lower Scores
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has back-off on its new policy adopted on July 14 to redistribute candidates to universities. JAMB’s Public Relation Officer, Mr. Benjamin Fabian who disclosed this Tuesday in a telephone conversations said: ”Candidates should…
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WAEC To Withold Results Of Candidates Over Debt
Hundreds of candidates who sat for the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination may not have their results released in the next two weeks, the West African Examinations Council has announced. No fewer than 19 states of the federation…
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Court Grants Candidates’ Application Against UNILAG, JAMB
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday granted an application for the judicial review of the decision to stop some applicants from writing entrance examination into the University of Lagos for this year’s admission. The applicants had headed for…
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UNILAG Cut-Off Mark Of 250 Is Justified – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said the 250 marks outlined by the University of Lagos as its cut-off marks for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination is justified. The Board said the mark is aimed at ensuring that Nigerian…
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