Education

NAUS, NAPS, NANCES Declare Nationwide Protest

NAUS, NAPS, NANCES Declare Nationwide Protest

NAUS, NAPS, NANCES Declare Nationwide Protest The students’ bodies, National Association of University Students (NAUS), National Association of Polytechnic Students(NAPS), and the National Association Nigerian of College of Education Students (NANCES), have declared nationwide protests, GISTSMATE MEDIA understands. In a jointly signed memo by the leadership of the students bodies, they accused the Federal Government of sidelining students in palliative distribution and failure to provide relief amid rising food cost, electricity tariff hike, among others. The students hence declared that they will mobilize against the FG on Monday July 29, 2024. See the press release below: MEMO TO ALL STUDENTS,…
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Gov. Otti Meets With The Mgt & Members Of The Senate Of ABIA State University, Resolve Outstanding Salary Issues

Gov. Otti Meets With The Mgt & Members Of The Senate Of ABIA State University, Resolve Outstanding Salary Issues

GOVERNOR ALEX OTTI MEETS WITH THE MANAGEMENT AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE OF ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY, RESOLVE OUTSTANDING SALARY ISSUES . On Saturday July 20th, the Executive Governor of Abia State His Excellency, Dr. Alex Otti met with the Management and Members of the Senate of Abia State University at his Country home, Umuehim Nvosi in Isialangwa South Local Government Area to resolve all pending issues regarding verification and payment of salary to the staff of the University. During the meeting, it was confirmed that all the Staff of Abia State University, both verified and unverified have been paid their…
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Robbers Invade Apartments, Rape Students

Robbers Invade Apartments, Rape Students

R0bbers Invade Apartments, R@pe Students No fewer than two first-year female students of Tai Solarin University of Education in Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, were allegedly raped by suspected robbers on Monday. PUNCH Online learnt that around 12:30 am, suspected armed robbers invaded the students’ apartments, forcibly taking the survivors’ personal belongings. A source at the school, requesting anonymity for fear of victimisation, disclosed that the suspects, armed with guns, forced the students to surrender their phones and other belongings before leading them to an uncompleted building where they took turns raping them. The spokesperson for the State Police Command, Omolola…
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Missing UNN Female Student Found Dead

Missing UNN Female Student Found Dead

Missing UNN Female Student Found Dead A 100-level female student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State has been found dead. The deceased identified as Favour Okenyi was said to be a student in the department of medical laboratory science of the university. She reportedly went missing on Tuesday after attending her chemistry practical. Her corpse was found at the back of Eni-Njoku male hostel within the university premises on Friday evening. A video clip which showed the corpse dumped inside what appeared to be a gutter has been circulating online. The lifeless body of Favour was…
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NELFUND Opens Student Loan Application For 36 State-Owned Tertiary Institutions (See List)

NELFUND Opens Student Loan Application For 36 State-Owned Tertiary Institutions (See List)

NELFUND Opens Student Loan Applications For 36 State-Owned Tertiary Institutions (FULL LIST) The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the commencement of student loan applications for 36 state-owned tertiary institutions across Nigeria, effective July 7, 2024. This was disclosed in a statement by the Fund’s management on Sunday via its official X account. According to NELFUND, the affected institutions have successfully submitted their student data to the NELFUND Student Verification System (SVS). The management urged other state-owned tertiary institutions to promptly submit their complete student data to the NELFUND SVS to ensure their students can benefit from the scheme.…
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Minimum Wage: Corps Members To Benefit From Current Negotiations – NYSC Announces

Minimum Wage: Corps Members To Benefit From Current Negotiations – NYSC Announces

Corps Members To Benefit From New Minimum Wage Negotiations – NYSC Announces The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Y.D Ahmed, has announced that serving corps members across the country will benefit from the ongoing negotiation for a new minimum wage. The DG made this announcement on Saturday during his visit to the Ogun State NYSC orientation camp in Sagamu. While addressing the 2,762 corps members undergoing the three-week orientation course, Brigadier-General Ahmed assured them that they would not be left out of the ongoing salary negotiations. He commended the corps members for their participation in…
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Governor Bago’s Motivational Offers To Corp Members Posted To Niger State

Governor Bago’s Motivational Offers To Corp Members Posted To Niger State

Governor Bago's gift to Nigercorp members todaySum of N200,000 each 20 cows One trailer of rice 5 billion for construction of new campAlso promised N500,000monthly for those want to venture into Agriculture Automatic employment for medical doctors and others in health field inNiger State. A reminder that he is leading in Agriculture and Rural Development. Don't let your governors lie to you. Everything is possible if they want to do it.
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Senators Ike Nwachukwu And Mao Ohuabunwa, Others Inaugurated As Chancellors Of Nigerian Universities

Senators Ike Nwachukwu And Mao Ohuabunwa, Others Inaugurated As Chancellors Of Nigerian Universities

Governing Councils of Universities inaugurated July 4th, 2024 The newly constituted Nigerian Universities Governing Councils was formally inaugurated yesterday. Prominent among the Chancellors that were inaugurated are our own Distinguished Sen. Mao Arukwe Ohuabunwa KSC PHD and Senator General Ike Nwachukwu. Senator Mao has already assumed office as the chairman Governing Board & Pro Chancellor of the University of Port Harcour By this appointment, it is evident that Senator Mao and Senator General Ike Nwachukwu are imbued with capacity, integrity, abilities and sound leadership quality. They have surely proved these qualities over the years and the testimony is clearly seen…
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State Government Announces N200,000 Bonus For Corps Members

State Government Announces N200,000 Bonus For Corps Members

State Government Announces N200,000 Bonus For Corps Members The Niger State governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago has announced the sum of N200,000 as bonus for each of the Batch B, Stream 1 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to serve. He said the bonus was to encourage the 1,600 corps members to remain and serve in the state. The governor stated this during the NYSC Batch B, Stream 1 orientation ceremony held at the temporary camp in Paikoro, on Tuesday. He revealed that any corps member who ventures into agriculture can earn N500,000 monthly and announced N5…
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FCT, 27 Other States Fail To Access N36 Billion UBEC Grant

FCT, 27 Other States Fail To Access N36 Billion UBEC Grant

FCT, 27 Other States Fail To Access N36 Billion UBEC Grant Twenty-seven states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, have failed to access the N36.1bn education fund provided by the Universal Basic Education Commission in 2023. The N36.1bn figure is obtained from a document prepared by UBEC in March 2024, which showed how state-by-state matching grants were not accessed. The document, which was signed by UBEC’s Director of Finance and Account, Adamu Misau, said the sum of N36.1bn was not accessed by states. According to the data on the document, Jigawa, Sokoto and Zamfara states in the North-West;…
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