Prof. Lawal Bilbis, the Vice-Chancellor of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), says it will graduate 22,932 students at its combined 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st convocation ceremony slated for
By Toyin Falola As an African country, the importance of tertiary education goes beyond cosmetical indulgence in educational accessibility. It has remained and must remain a fundamental phenomenon in the
By Toyin Falola On April 16, 2024, Professor Ezekiel Oladele Adeoti will give his Inaugural Lecture, the 95th of such, at the Lagos State University. A few weeks later, as
A Nigerian Scholar, Prof. Wale Adebanwi, has bagged the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship which is awarded based on prior career achievement and exceptional promise. Adebanwi, who is the Presidential Penn Compact
The Nigerian Library Association (NLA) has expressed concern over the appointment of non-librarians by employers of labour to head libraries across the country. The President of the association, Pastor Dominic
By Toyin Falola The initiative for this idea came from the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, where Professor Wellington Oyibo and his colleagues decided to
Prof. Promise Mebine, the Director/Chief Executive, the National Mathematical Centre, (NMC), has called for more support towards aiding the teaching and learning of mathematics to promote national development. Mebine said
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed, has inaugurated a 13-member committee for the President’s NYSC Honours Award National Selection. At the inauguration on Tuesday in Abuja,
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says no fewer than 260,000 candidates sat for Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock UTME) in 793 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country.
By Wole Soyinka I begin by pleading an obsessive problem – media language. As one who is routinely traumatized by encountering his own words reworked into imagined equivalents, duly enhanced
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