School Reporters

  The management of Abia State University, Uturu, has rusticated a 500 level Law student, Onwuka Chimezie Princewill for one academic session for falsification of his academic transcript. Onwuka was allegedly claimed to have graduated from the University when he still has outstanding courses to pass. Also, a staff of University’s Institute for Computer Studies, ICS, Bestman Ugorji has been handed six months suspension with half salary, for complicity in the fake result displayed by the student in the social media.   In addition, the University management has directed that Ugorji be posted out of the institution on resumption from his suspension. The decisions were arrived at by the University management after accepting the findings and recommendations of the Panel it set to investigate the allegation against the Law student. Announcing the decisions, through a statement by the Registrar, Dr. Acho Elendu, the University vowed to ensure the transparency and credibility of degree...

  OVER 500,000 tertiary institutions admission seekers have so far registered to sit for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said.The board which disclosed this, Thursday, through its registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said its target was to register a total of 1.5 million candidates before its deadline fixed for March 26, 2022.Oloyede, who spoke while monitoring the registration exercise in Bwari, Abuja, said the board also plans to register at least 50,000 candidates per day.Açcording to him, it has succeeded in registering about 70,000 two days ago, adding that the exercise has been mostly successful and 99 per cent of the problems encountered by candidates were self-inflicted because they played into the hands of fraudsters. While appealing to noncandidates to keep off registration centres, he urged parents to allow their children to read the registration instructions and follow, warning candidates not t...

  This is to bring to the notice of the Entire General public especially the Freshmen of the Ekiti state university (EKSU) that the authorities of the varsity had Commenced Admission allocation on The school portal for the 2021/22 Academic Session.     Applicants who have successfully accepted their Admission offer on Jamb caps can now proceed to the school portal to check their Admission status as it was gathered that Some Applicants noticed their status changing from pending to Admitted. It is salient for All Applicants of the varsity to note that the Uploading of the newly admitted students on the school portal is a gradual process,Hence , Candidates who have been offered admission via Merit list on jamb caps first are likely to notice positive changes on their School portal first. In light of the Allocation of the provisional Admission offer on the school portal,the University management had directed the newly admitted students to proceed to their portal to pay a non-...

  After almost eight hours of an intensive closed-door meeting on Tuesday, both the Nigerian government team and the leadership of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) emerged at about 11 p.m. with an indication of possible resolution of the areas of conflict between the two parties. The president of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, declined elaborate comment on their conclusions but said his team would report to the members on the government’s proposals and later revert to the government. But the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, said both parties agreed on a lot of things, and that ASUU was expected to “talk to its members, show them the proposal that has been offered by the government so that they can call off the strike”.   Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) and revitalisation fund for universities were the two items on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting. Timelines set Mr Ngige said although most of ASUU’s demands are being dealt with, the remaining ar...

  Notice is hereby given to the 2021/22 Applicants of the federal university of Technology, Akure (FUTA) that the University management had Commenced Admission placement on Jamb caps for the 2021/22 Academic Session.     Applicants who participated in the 2021/22 post utme and Obtained a minimum of 50% as the score mark are expected to login into their Jamb caps to check their Admission status. It is salient for All Applicants to note that Admission allocation on Jamb caps is a gradual process,Hence those that are yet to notice positive changes on their jamb caps are urged to keep it calm and stay glued to their Jamb caps. The Admission seekers must have uploaded their Olevel results on Jamb caps and also ensure that all details on the school portal correlates with the one on Jamb caps. As of the time of filling this report, campus info has confirmed an Human Anatomy Applicant who Noticed positive change on his/her Jamb caps. In addition,the Applicants are expected to be ...

  The board also noted that the date for the exercise had been affected also by the shift in date for the registration of the UTME and Direct Entry (DE), which was earlier scheduled for Feb.12, but later commenced on Feb.19.     It, however, urged all candidates who registered and would want to sit for the mock exercise to note the change of date and be prepared. The 2022 registration commenced on Saturday, February 19, and would end on March 26. The UTME however has been scheduled by JAMB to hold from May 6 to May 16. In a similar development, JAMB said that it had made significant progress in the ongoing registration of candidates for the 2022 exercise. According to the board, it has successfully registered over 236,000 candidates on February 26, eight days after the commencement of the registration on February 19. The board, while comparing the statistics with its 2021 exercise, said that it registered only 102,221 candidates within the same period of eight days in the...

  The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB announced today that a total of 236,206 Candidates have completed their registration for 2022 UTME/DE. This was exclusively gathered today by school news Reporters in the copy of the Jamb Weekly Bulletin made available to us, the notice from the bulletin reads; 236,206 Candidates registered for 2022 UTME/DE as at Saturday, February 26, 2022. Also all 2022 UTME/DE intended Candidates should be reminded that the registration continues till March 26, 2022, and the Mock for UTME Candidates only holds April 16 while the main UTME holds between May 6 to May 16, 2022. ✍️✍️ Dikeocha Martins 

  " If your children are in foreign countries studying, we are not worried about that, we are not asking for scholarships. But please don't pay our patience with  strike" The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Monday stormed the palace of the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero, to protest against the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU last week began a four-week strike to compel the Nigerian government to accede to its requests for more spendings on public universities. ASUU had, following a marathon meeting at the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) Akoka, declared the warning strike, starting from Monday, February 14, to protest the government’s failure to implement its agreement with the union. At the emir’s palace, NANS threatened to shut down Nigerian airports and major highways if the Federal Government and ASUU do not resolve their dispute and allow students return to their classes. Speaking to reporters, NANS Vice President, Yaz...

  Students from different tertiary institutions under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students on Monday locked out federal and state workers in Plateau State. The angry students were protesting the ongoing nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The students had converged in front of the National Library located along the ever-busy Yakubu Gowon Way in Jos around 8:am and later moved to the federal secretariat located within Tudun Wada community and locked the gate, preventing the workers from going in while those already inside were trapped in their offices. Some of the civil servants told The PUNCH in Jos on Monday that the students, after locking the gate of the federal secretariat for some hours moved to the nearby state secretariat where they also locked the gate Civil servants said “I left my house in the morning to my office at the Federal Secretariat but when I got to the gate, I saw many young men and women with placards singing solidar...

Nigerian students during a protest in Abuja on Monday, February 28, 2022.    The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has held a protest against the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The students led by the national president, Sunday Asefon, gathered on Monday morning at Unity Fountain in Abuja, displaying various placards and chanting songs of solidarity. The protest was also held in other states including, Kofar Nasarawa, Kano State; Jos, Plateau State; Minna, Niger State; Jalingo, Taraba State; Ekiti State; Oyo State, among others. The NANS President addressing journalists in Abuja said the protesters will match from the Unity Fountain to the Federal Secretariat before proceeding to the National Assembly. Asefon said the students union has given the Federal Government up till the 28th of February to meet and resolve the issue with ASUU or face a national mass action by Nigerian students. He described as unfortunate the attitude...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the federal government of showing levity in its ongoing negotiation with the union whose members are currently on a four-week strike.     The union therefore said ending the industrial action is dependent on the readiness of the government to take the issue at stake seriously and do the needful. Speaking in a chat with Vanguard, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the last meeting between the two sides could not achieve anything because the government team acted as if it did not know the issues at stake. “Our last meeting did not lead to anything meaningful because the government team acted as if they were not aware of the issues at stake. We have been on this thing for some years now. What we expected from them is to come to the meeting with answers to what we are demanding. “We were surprised that their team came with no action as to how to resolve the issues. Another meeting is slate...

  Economic activities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja may soon suffer major setbacks, beginning from Monday, following the planned protests by the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS. Recall that sequel to the one month strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, the association had threatened to block all federal roads in the nation’s capital with protest at two federal ministries on Monday, February 28. The vice president of the association, Yazid Tanko Muhammad, who spoke with BBC Hausa on Tuesday, threatened that the association would shut down activities in the FCT if the FG and the ASUU failed to end the industrial action within the weekend. “We will block the roads linking Abuja from Kogi, Abuja from Kaduna and Abuja from Nasarawa States. That means we will block the whole Abuja on that day. We will also block the Federal Secretariat,” he said DAILY POST reports that the move would affect many businesses and civil servants, as mo...

  Following the release of the First batch Admission list on jamb caps,we are pleased to notify all Applicants of the Olabisi onabajo University (OOU) and the general public that the UNIVERSITY management had rolled out the second batch Admission list for the 2021/22 Academic Session.     The Admission list has been successfully uploaded on the school website.Applicants who applied for the Institution and have not been admitted via first batch are urged to log in to their post utme portal to check their Admission status. HOW TO CHECK ADMISSION STATUS Prospective Candidates are Instructed to visit the post utme Application portal via this link: http://portal.oouagoiwoye.edu.ng/admission/login.php Input their UTME Registration number and surname as password to access their Admission status.NB:As at the time of filling this report,the Admission list is being uploaded gradually, Don’t flinch once you checked it as the site might be congested or still undergoing maintenance,yo...