Following the commencement of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Friday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has appealed to candidates who experienced glitches in the course of the examination to remain calm as they would be rescheduled. The JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyode, who made the appeal while …
Read More »127 Nigerians receive UK Chevening, Commonwealth scholarships
One hundred and twenty-seven Nigerians have been awarded Chevening and Commonwealth United Kingdom scholarships to study a wide range of master’s degrees and PhD programmes in 2023. This was contained in a statement from the British High Commission in Abuja on Wednesday. At a pre-departure reception held in Abuja, the …
Read More »ASUP condemns IPPIS over double payment
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has said the double salary paid by the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System to Federal Polytechnic lecturers in June justifies complaints about the inadequacies of the payment platform. This was in reaction to a social media post by ‘IPPIS Public Servants Group Discussion,’ …
Read More »Tuition hike: NANS seeks Buhari’s ‘fatherly’ intervention
The National Association of Nigerian Students has expressed strong opposition to the alleged plans by federal universities in the country to increase, by 200 per cent, their tuitions and various other charges from this year, calling on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to, “as a matter of urgency, …
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