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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will include farming and crop production as part of the one-year primary assignment for corps members from the next service year. Bello Ballama, the NYSC FCT coordinator, said this in an interview with NAN in Abuja on Thursday. He said the move was to help address corps rejection by some corps employers through the engagement of more corps members in all aspects of farming and crop production. The coordinator said that the move was also aimed at boosting the NYSC skills acquisition and entrepreneurship development (SAED) programme. Ballam said the scheme was, therefore, putting all its farms in good condition in readiness for corps members to commence its use. “Corps members will be involved in all aspects of farming and crop production,” he said. “This will not only support skills acquisition of NYSC but also governments plan of boosting agricultural production to improve self-reliance and achieve national growth and development. “From...

The Presidency has said commencement of academic activities at the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State is part of fulfilment campaign promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, who made this known in a statement yesterday, said the Buhari’s administration is committed to develop the Niger Delta in line with its new vision for the region. The presidential aide said the Maritime University commenced lectures for the 2017/2018 academic year yesterday and that a total of 196 students have so far been accepted into the University to commence their academic programmes. The reporter reports the Maritime University was granted approval in January by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence undergraduate degree programmes effective from the 2017/2018 academic session. According to Akande, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had also listed the University in its Central Admi...

Students of the Lagos State College of Health Technology (LASCOHET) on Thursday lauded the state Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode for employing 265 graduates of the school. Mr. Boluwatife Gbenle, the President, LASCOHET Students Union Government (SUG), made the commendation during the students’ monthly congress held on Thursday. Gbenle said that Ambode brought tremendous positive changes to the institution and its students. “We appreciate and endorse the governor for a second term in office because he has brought positive changes to the school. “The school is one of the oldest in Nigeria; it was established in 1920, and since then, the school has been going through challenges in academics and physical structure. “However, the governor has been a listening and passionate leader. He was concerned about the condition of the school and brought changes to the college,’’ the SUG president said. Gbenle said that all the courses in the school had been accredited as a result of Ambode’s efforts, adding ...

The National Assembly has endorsed the commencement of Higher National Diploma course in Official Reporting at the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS). The programme will commence in June, following its approval by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). The Institute is the research arm of the National Assembly. Director General of NILDS, Prof. Ladi Hamalai, stated this on Monday while declaring open a two-week certificate training programme on Official Reporting. The event was put together by the Institute for staff of Anambra and Ogun State Houses of Assembly. Represented by the Director of Research and Training in the Institute, Adeyemi Fajingbesi, Hamalai said the training was specifically designed to acquaint participants with information, methods and modern tools to report parliamentary practices and proceedings accurately. The DG said topical issues to be discussed at the training include: Principles and Elements of Speed...

Ohogua Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) students who wrote the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) record an impressive performance according to results released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Solomon Folunsho, the general overseer of International Christian Mission Centre and operator of the camp located in Benin City, Edo State, made this known after results of all the students were released. According to the general overseer, 59 out of the 63 students who wrote the exam scored above 200, with some getting as high as 298. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, who paid the registration fees of the students for the examination, including WAEC, NECO and NABTEB, as part of his support for displaced persons across the country, said he is very pleased with the performance. “This is another manifestation of the inherent resilience of Nigerians, whether young or old, and their ability to record notable achieve...

The federal government says only 173 pupils registered for the 2018 national common entrance examination in Zamfara, Taraba and Kebbi states. Adamu Adamu, minister of education, said the low registration shows that Nigeria’s child education was in need of total reform. He said a report from a meeting of major stakeholders in the education sector showed that candidates registered in 2018 stood at 71,294 as against 80,421  in 2017. “The report further shows three states with the highest number of pupils registered so far are: Lagos with 24,465 candidates, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with 7,699 and Rivers State with 4,810 candidates respectively,” the minister said. “On the other hand, three states with extreme low registration are Zamfara with only 28 candidates, Kebbi, 50 and Taraba, 95 candidates respectively.” He pleaded with state governments, heads of schools and interest groups to persuade school-age children in the areas with low registration to registe...

The National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) has given the management of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic Unwana(PolyUnwana), Ebonyi State, 24 hours ultimatum to resolve the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics(ASUP). NANS President, Chinonso Obasi, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the strike by PolyUnwana Chapter of ASUP, had lingered for a month. Obasi said that if the strike, which was started when students were about to commence semester examination, was not called off within 24 hours, the school would witness mass action by students. “It is quite embarrassing to note even when students are about to commence semester examination, ASUP did not give any iota of consideration to the student’s plight before embarking on the strike. “However, in my telephone conversation with the ASUP Chairman, PolyUnwana chapter, Mr. Nwuro Carl, he said that the strike never got his approval as it was politically motivated to smear the administ...

The convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos has been re-scheduled to hold from May 8 to May 11. The Registrar of the institution, Dr. Taiwo Ipaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the week-long ceremony for the convocation of 2016/2017 academic session was earlier scheduled to begin on Feb. 19. It was postponed because of the strike by non-academic staff. “The university management is happy to announce a new date for the convocation ceremony. “The schedule for the ceremony remains the same. The only additional thing is reception for retired professors, directors and registrars; it will take place on the last day, Friday, May 11, after Jumat prayers,” she said. According to the registrar, Gov. Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State will deliver the convocation lecture on May 8. “The lecture, with the theme: “Inclusion: The Path to a New Nation’’, previously scheduled for Feb. 19, would kick-start activities lined up for the ceremony,’’ she told NAN. ...

Two University of Lagos female graduates with first class and Cumulative Grade Point Average CGPA 5.0 have revealed some of the secrets of their success, one of them being that they avoided having boyfriends while studying. The ladies, Taiwo Bankole, 22, and Oyindamola Omotuyi, 21 have just matched the celebrated academic feat of the Philosophy graduate, Ayodele Daniel Dada, who made a CGPA 5.0 last year in the same university. The ladies spoke in separate interviews with Vanguard online. Omotuyi, from Ondo state, studied System Engineering. Bankole, from Ipaja, Lagos State studied Cell Biology and Genetics. Omotuyi, the first daughter among her parents’ three daughters said her bookish father inspired her. ‘’My father, an engineer reads all night and I tried to emulate him.” She said she was not born a genius and attributed her first class simply to hard work. ‘’While in primary one, I took 11th position in my class and in UNILAG, I had two bad results. A day before t...

The convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos has been re-scheduled to hold from May 8 to May 11. The Registrar of the institution, Dr. Taiwo Ipaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the week-long ceremony for the convocation of 2016/2017 academic session was earlier scheduled to begin on Feb. 19. It was postponed because of the strike by non-academic staff. “The university management is happy to announce a new date for the convocation ceremony. “The schedule for the ceremony remains the same. The only additional thing is the reception for retired professors, directors and registrars; it will take place on the last day, Friday, May 11, after Jumat prayers,” she said. According to the registrar, Gov. Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State will deliver the convocation lecture on May 8. “The lecture, with the theme: “Inclusion: The Path to a New Nation’’, previously scheduled for Feb. 19, would kick-start activities lined up for the ceremony,’’ she told NAN...

The Senate has directed its Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) to interact with the Minister of Education to identify the causes of the recurring failure in the WAEC results with a view to finding remedies. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Umaru Kurfi (Katsina Central), who described the recurring mass failure of West African Examination Council (WAEC) results in the country since 2009 as embarrassing. *770# Mobile The senator expressed worry that the rate of failure remains high, saying it was prejudicial to the interest of Nigerian secondary school students and their parents. According to him, in both 2009 and 2010 WAEC, only 25.99 and 24.94 percent respectively passed with five credits including Mathematics and English, while the remaining others constituting 70 percent failed. “In 2011 May/June WAEC, only 86,612 out of the 1,540,250 candidates that participated in the examinations got credit in mathematics and English language. ...

     By myvictoryb The federal government has ordered that history should be reintroduced as an independent subject in the curriculum of primary and junior secondary schools in the country. Adamu Adamu, minister of education, made this known on Tuesday at the launch of history curriculum and teacher’s guide in Abuja. He said the importance of history to nation-building, national identity, patriotism and overall human development could not be overemphasised. Adamu said one of the cardinal principles of the present administration is social and behavioural change, and history is key to its realisation. “The desire to realise this and national clamour for it to be back informed our decision to reintroduce the teaching of history in Nigeria’s primary and junior secondary schools,” he said. “The federal ministry of education developed its strategic plan – Education for Change: A ministerial strategic plan (2016-2019) which contained several initiatives. “This in...

by myvictoryb Newly appointed chancellor of the Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Chief (Dr) Tunde Afolabi, on Friday announced the plan to establish, “with immediate effect,” Amni International Petroleum Institute of Energy and Petroleum Technology at the university. He made the commitment to his address shortly after his investiture by the governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi. Chief Afolabi said that in the institute, vocational training would be emphasized and delivered. He also spoke of the plan to institute an annual lecture series, beginning from this year, which will attract accomplished professionals of international repute. The objective of the lecture series, he explained, would be to provide an opportunity for the academic community to share their experiences and insight. “Speakers will be mainly practitioners from the industry. It is my hope that these efforts will help galvanize other Oyo State professionals in the Diaspora to provide the much...

GOVERNOR of Ondo State and Visitor to Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, and the vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, have commended the enormous contributions of the nations Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, to the growth of the state-owned university. The duo made the commendations on Thursday last week during the 2018 University Distinguished Lecture of AAUA, entitled: “Paradigm Shift in Infrastructure Development in Nigerian Universities: the TETFund Approach,” which was delivered by the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Dr. Abdullahi Bichi Baffa. The Governor, who was represented by his deputy, Honourable Agboola Ajayi, said without the interventions of TETFund, higher institutions in Nigeria would have totally collapsed. He pleaded with the TETFund representatives to continue to complement the efforts of the Ondo State Government to improve the infrastructure status of AAUA. Professor Ajibe...

By myvictoryb The Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has said President Muhammadu Buhari is willing to implement the waver that will end the Bsc and HND dichotomy. Buhari had received the updated report on the BSC and HND controversy, which was presented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, MacJohn Nwaobiala last Tuesday. Speaking to newsmen on Wednesday, Ojerinde recalled that the last administration set up a committee to look at how the two could be merged. Continuing he said, “The system has not given adequate vision for the other levels of education. We have not encouraged technical education, we have not encouraged Teachers education also; in fact, we have not encouraged agricultural education to the extent that everybody feels that the only way to survive is to go to the University. “The only way to make it is to have a degree; so I am saying we should revisit our system, we ...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates who have taken the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to visit the board’s website for their results. The Head of Media of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, gave the directive at a news conference on Tuesday in Bwari, Abuja. Benjamin said that the results had been scrutinized and released on its website, www.jamb.org.ng, adding that such candidates were free to visit the Board’s website for their results. He also explained that the results would be released in batches to enable candidates who have already taken the examination to check them. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, recently said that unlike the 2017 exercise, the Board would not release the results of the 2018 examinations immediately until after two or three days. This, he stated, was not because the Board was incapable of releasing them immediately but that results must undergo review and total scrutiny to avoid mul...

          The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will not release the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results immediately, unlike it did in 2017. The examination is scheduled to begin on Friday, March 9, to March 17. The registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede, said this during a press conference titled “Conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination” in Abuja on Wednesday. According to the registrar, the reason for the delay in releasing the results is to review the activities of the candidates and to minimise the number of cancellations. “We want to monitor everything that happens through our CCT cameras. Last year, we proved a point that there is nothing extraordinary in the immediate release of results but we had to cancel some results when we found out what happened in some centres. So, if we have to take two or three days to look at the conduct of the candidates before releasing the re...