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A 31-year-old graduate of Biochemistry at Ekiti State University (EKSU), Babajide Ojo, has received the highest honour awarded to a graduating Ph.D student at the Oklahoma State University in the United States. The Nigerian man who had to improve his hands-on laboratory experience from EKSU standard to the standards in the US due to the huge […]
Continue ReadingActor Eniola Olaniyan has bagged a PhD in Meteorology and Climate Science from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). The actor was awarded the degree during the recent convocation ceremony of the institution. Eniola Olaniyan who shared a photo from the convocation ceremony on Instagram, wrote: “Thank God for His grace. Ph.D done and dusted.” Yomi Fabiyi […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Abuja on Monday announced the dismissal of two professors and the demotion of two others for alleged misconduct. A statement by the university’s Head of Information and Public Relations, Dr. Habib Yakoob, said the university took the decision “after due diligence and after considering reports and recommendations from the Disciplinary Committee.” Those dismissed […]
Continue ReadingWorkers of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti grounded academic activities at the institution on Monday, December 9 over mass retrenchment in the school. The institution had on December 5 sacked over 900 workers in the institution who were alleged to have been recruited between 2016 and 2017, during the tenure of Governor Ayodele Fayose, […]
Continue ReadingOne of President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughters, Aisha Jr, has graduated from the university with a first class degree. This was made known by the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, through her verified Twitter handle. Mrs Buhari also shared photos from the moment her daughter was being conferred with the degree. She tweeted, “Alhamdulillah! Today I was […]
Continue ReadingNational Universities Commission (NUC) has said it has uncovered about 100 fake professors across Nigerian universities. The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, stated this in the November edition of the commission’s bulletin. The Executive Secretary (ES) noted that the commission published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the […]
Continue ReadingFederal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, has expelled six students who brutalised a female student, Boluwatife, following an allegation that she gossipped about one of them at a hostel outside the campus of the institution a few weeks ago. The expelled students are, Popoola Olaniyi, Oluwadare Tobiloba, Nandi Jessica, Ajuwon Emmanuella, Emmanuel Taiwo […]
Continue ReadingA nine-year-old boy who is studying electrical engineering at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is set to be the youngest ever graduate after nine months. His university is saying that he is three times smarter than any student they’ve ever had, The Punch reports. According to Sky News, Laurent Simons, who is inspired by inventor […]
Continue ReadingFacebook user, Ugochukwu Tony Oputa posted photos of a sculpture of a female Corps member which looks like a real human being. The sculpture was made by Arigbede Ojo Olaropo, a talented artist, who just completed his national youth service in Edo state. “This should pass as one of the most realistic sculptures ever made […]
Continue ReadingA 12-year-old Nigerian boy, Chika Ofili has been awarded the TruLittle Hero award for discovering a new way to divide in mathematics. Chika’s mathematic’s teacher, Miss Mary Ellis who is also the head of the mathematics department at Westminster Under School said he (Chika) discovered the new formula while solving a holiday assignment. She revealed that she gave […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has unveiled a policy document on sexual harassment on campus, clearly defining the rules of engagement between lecturers, administrators and students, including visitors to the university. Its the first effort by any Nigerian university, after the scandal of teachers demanding sex for grades from female students. The Vice-Chancellor of UNIPORT, […]
Continue Reading34 years after Professor (Mrs) Grace Alele-Williams made history as the First Female Vice Chancellor of a Nigerian University, the University of Benin (UNIBEN) she headed has appointed another female Vice Chancellor. Professor (Mrs ) Lillian Salami who is the first alumnus of the University to become its Vice Chancellor, will be taking over from Professor Faraday Orunmwese […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s most populous tertiary institution, National Open University of Nigeria with a population of over 500,000 active students has become a brand in providing quality education to the populace. By the unique global initiative, government is strategically bringing education to the doorsteps of the citizenry, thus, drastically reducing the hitherto wide gap between the educated […]
Continue ReadingProf. Guid Oei presenting an artistic impression of the artificial womb. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke. Scientists in the Netherlands say they are within 10 years of developing an artificial womb that could save the lives of premature babies. Premature birth, before 37 weeks, is globally the biggest cause of death among newborns. Through this project, […]
Continue ReadingEmmanuel Acheampong, a senior lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Business School, has come out to share his experience on how a Nigerian female student in one of the country’s universities allegedly offered him sex-for-grade. Acheampong who spoke on Ahotor FM in the wake of ‘sex for grades’ expose by the BBC […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Nigeria has suspended another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo, of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he was also indicted in a sexual harassment documentary produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). This is just as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; wife of the […]
Continue ReadingYvonne Nelson posted a tweet in reaction to the sex for grade scandal and this has earned her brutal criticisms from Twitter users who think she’s being a hypocrite. The Ghanaian actress, while reacting to the scandal, seemed to be laying the blame on women for not covering their bodies properly. She wrote: “Sex for […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian broadcast journalist, Gifty Anti Oheneyere, has said that some female teachers and lecturers are also in the habit of demanding for sex in return for good grades from their male students. Gifty stated this while reacting to the #SexforGrades investigative documentary released by BBC yesterday October 7th. The documentary exposed how lecturers in the […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian lecturer, Professor Ransford Gyampo, exposed in the BBC’s ‘sex for grades’ documentary, was filmed reportedly crying in class in front of his students after the video aired. Prof. Gyampo, a lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, was caught on camera propositioning marriage to an undercover reporter in the BBC […]
Continue ReadingA new documentary by BBC Africa Eye targeted at lecturers in some West African universities harassing their students for sex in exchange for grades/marks has exposed some randy lecturers in Nigerians and Ghana. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University […]
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