Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Osinbajo Commissions First Solar Hybrid Power Plant at FUNAI

Osinbajo Commissions First Solar Hybrid Power Plant at FUNAI, sunshevy.blogspot.com
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has charged Nigerians to embrace the emerging renewable off grid energy sector, being driven by the Federal Rural Electrification Agency, that is poised to generate significant impact for Nigerian markets, unserved and underserved communities and higher learning institutions.

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Post-UTME 2019: List Of Schools That Have Released Forms

Post-UTME News
Many Nigeria tertiary institutution have announced their Post-UTME Screening and registration details for the 2019/2020 Academic Session. This article provide information for candidates to know if, and when the Post-UTME/DE registration for their respective schools of choice, have commenced for the 2019/2020 academic session.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Na’Allah’s choice as UniAbuja VC applauded


Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah

The University of Ilorin has described the appointment of Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah as Vice-Chancellor of University of Abuja as well deserved, describing it as a “fascinating antecedent”.

Friday, June 28, 2019

How School Choice Undermines Democratic Processes

Opponents of school choice in its many forms often talk about processes and institutions and policies, but one way to grasp the problems that choice is old fashioned and non wonky. Just look at who is holding the purse strings.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

World Economic Forum applauds Obaseki’s Basic Education Reforms



May God continue to bless Mr. gov. The enemy of the people will never be allowed to share the state money among themselves thus destroy the EdoBEST program meant to polish and improve education standard for Edo children.

JAMB withdraws results of 4 candidates over alleged forgery.

2019 UTME: JAMB withdraws results of 4 candidates over alleged forgery, sunshevy.blogspot.com
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has withdrawn the results of four candidates who participated at its 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

University of Ibadan matriculates 6,000 students


University of Ibadan 
Held a joint matriculation ceremony for more than 6,000 students of the regular and distance learning modes of study.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

JAMB candidate arrested for upgrading score to 290

JAMB candidate arrested for upgrading score to 290, sunshevy.blogspot.com
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) yesterday arrested one Adah Eche for fraudulently upgrading his scores in the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) from 153 to 290.

Nursing school students fault Okorocha’s aide on invasion


Nursing school students fault Okorocha’s aide on invasion, sunshevy.blogspot.com
Okorocha
The Students Union Government, SUG, of Imo State College of Nursing, Okporo, Orlu, have reacted to the claim by Rochas Okorocha’s Special Adviser (Media), Mr. Samuel Onwuemeodo, linking last Friday’s mayhem to the state government and Mbaise people.

NYSC hunts for 75 ex-corps members over unpaid loans

 The National Youth Service Corps Foundation is searching for about 75 corps members who took between N 300, 000 and N 400 , 000 loans to start small businesses but refused to pay after about four years .  The defaulting corps members, who have now passed out , used their certificates as collateral , which was the only condition to access the loans .  Our correspondent learnt the corps members had abandoned their certificates with the foundation for almost four years .  The NYSC Foundation Chief Executive Officer , Bako Ventim, confirmed this in an exclusive interview on Monday during the opening of Skills’ Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development workshop at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Kubwa, Abuja .  The foundation was in the camp to donate 10 sewing machines to the camp for SAED training.   The director said, “ We have been providing loans to corps members and our interest rate is one digit . There is no collateral except the NYSC certificate and two guarantors . We make the conditions very flexible so that the corps members can benefit from these loans.  “ We have a challenge where corps members have refused to pay back the loans . We have over 100 corps members who took the loans but some of them have not paid back and we still have their NYSC certificates with us . They have not come to claim these certificates for a number of years.   “ We give as much as between N 300,000 and N 400,000 depending on the business proposals . From the records , we have over 75 corps members that have defaulted and we are pursuing them . ”  Meanwhile , the NYSC medical corps in Borno State on Monday protested non-payment of allowances promised by the state government .  The Batch B NYSC members , who gathered at the Borno State Government House in Maiduguri , told journalists they had not been paid for four months .  One of them , Cornelius Azi , said, “Often times , we work extra hours due to shortage of medical personnel in the state health facilities . We have explored all alternative ways of dispute resolution but they haven’ t yielded results . We appeal to the government to honour its promise . ”  The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health , Alhaji Mustapha Alau , who later addressed journalists , said the governor had already directed. sunshevy.blogspot.com
The National Youth Service Corps Foundation is searching for about 75 corps members who took between N 300, 000 and N 400, 000 loans to start small businesses but refused to pay after about four years .

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Shocking find: Fraudsters seek information to hack into parents’, other victims’ bank accounts


Why merely ‘passwording’ your phone doesn’t save you from hackers, How banks can be liable for customers’ losses -Ex- NBA chief.  You may just be a step away from losing your life savings to hackers, who are daily coming up with new ideas, if you don’t put necessary measures in place to check them. Bank customers who engage in indiscriminate online purchases and those who toy with their security information on phones and ATM cards are susceptible to the crime.

Friday, June 21, 2019

Keeping Children Out Of School A Crime ― Buhari


President Muhammadu Buhari says it is now a crime for parents to deny their children basic education in the country.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Another LAUTECH student slumps, dies during exercise session


A 100-level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, has been confirmed dead after he slumped during an athletic exercise session at the school’s sports complex.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

BREAKING: World population hits 7.7 billion as men outnumber women in Nigeria

The population of the world hits 7.7 billion, the United Nations Population Division said on Monday.

Buhari signs polytechnic amendment bill into law

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday signed into law two bills, the National Institute for Security Bill and the Federal Polytechnic Amendment Bill.

Monday, June 17, 2019

US denies rumour of student visa ban for Nigerians

The United States Mission in Nigeria Monday denied reports that the United States has placed a ban on student visa for Nigeria applicants.