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The Authority of the University of Ilorin has expelled a postgraduate student, Mr Mathew Adeboye Balogun, a.k.a Plato ( mat no: 14/25OD062) for alleged sexual molestations of vulnerable students and admission seekers. Mr Balogun is a Master’s degree student in the Department of Councilor Education, Faculty of Education. His expulsion from the university was ratified…
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President Bola Tinubu has approved N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 intervention fund for public tertiary schools in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Sonny Echono, made this disclosure on Friday at the Fund’s strategic planning meeting with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja. According to him, from the total, 90.75…
The University of Ilorin, Kwara State has debunked the list of fake professors alleged to be on the institution’s payroll. The University in a press statement made available to journalists in Ilorin on Sunday and signed by Mr Kunle Akogun, Director, Corporate Affairs stated that all the names mentioned in the list were never workers…
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The National Universities Commission (NUC) has identified at least 58 illegal universities or satellite campuses operating in Nigeria, warning that Certificates obtained from the institutions will not be recognised for the purposes of compulsory one-year national service, employment, and further studies. Acting executive secretary of NUC, Chris Maiyaki, disclosed this on Wednesday when he spoke…
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Nigeria has ceased the evaluation and accreditation of university degrees from over 45 universities in Benin Republic and Togo, following revelations of widespread certificate racketeering. An undercover investigation exposed a syndicate selling university degrees to Nigerians. The report detailed how a reporter obtained a university degree from Cotonou within six weeks, complete with a legitimate…
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The United Kingdom Nursing and Midwifery Council said there is evidence of widespread fraud at Yunnik Technologies Test Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria. The alert was earlier raised by the NMC in May, that the registration of a total of 512 Nigerian nurses and midwives, who passed at a CBT centre in Ibadan could be fraudulent…
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Parents and students have started protests as more varsities continue to hike their fees amid a worsening economic situation. This is as tertiary institutions across the country prepares to begin a new session next week. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, as well as the associations of parents and the students body has warned about…
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The police command in Lagos State has deployed its men to the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to maintain law and order as students express dissatisfaction with an increase in their school fees. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the deployment on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)….
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The President, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Abayomi Otubela, says given the increase in the cost of fuelling, some schools would suspend bus services and parents would be advised to look for alternative means of transporting their wards to school. Otubela spoke to correspondents on the sidelines of the groundbreaking ceremony of NAPPS…
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Kwara State Government again earned national applause for running the FG-UBEC sponsored Model Smart School effectively and technology driven within the shortest period of its establishment in the state. Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Dr. Hamid Boboyyi, who inspected the facility on Friday, said he was impressed at what he saw, especially how…
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