The Vice Chancellor, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, has said the institution will rise to the COVID-19 challenge through deployment of more technology to deliver its functions and mandates. Soremekun called on the authorities of universities in Nigeria to take advantage of technology to deliver sound education to their students, adding that such
Information reaching us from a reliable source has it that the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB) is set to commence her 2020 Examination in the early month of September. Our source made it known that the examination will commence September 7- 18, 2020.
The Federal Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education has begun decontaminating and disinfecting 19,000 unity schools in preparation for their resumption. The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar while briefing newsmen in Kaduna said the collaborating ministries have put in place a sustainable system which will protect the health
The University is pleased to announce that Professor Adebayo Ninalowo of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences has been reappointed Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of Lagos State University. He was a two-time Head of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe, FAS, on behalf of Management, Staff
The University is pleased to announce that Professor Rasheed Kola Ojikutu of the Department of Actuarial Science and Insurance, Faculty of Management Sciences has been appointed Chairman, Governing Council of Lagos State Polytechnic. He was a former Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration (now Faculty of Management Sciences) and Head of the Department of
South African Company, Shoprite Holdings Limited, says it will auction off its outlets in Nigeria,. This is coming about 15 years after it opened its first store in Lagos in December 2005. The megastore company with presence in most Nigerian cities hinged this decision on the coronavirus pandemic which has disrupted major businesses globally. In
Ogun State Government has clarified the requirements for operations of boarding facilities in the Secondary Schools in the State, as part of the overall requirements for the reopening of schools for SS3 students, on 4th August 2020, as earlier announced by the Government. In a release issued in Abeokuta on Sunday, the Special Adviser to
With schools reopening for graduating pupils this week after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents of pupils in private secondary schools in Ogun State on Sunday kicked against the request of N25,000 COVID-19 test fee by the government. Many of the parents, who took their demonstrations to the streets, faulted the decision
The Covenant University Scholastic Aptitude Screening (CUSAS) is a mandatory screening test of the institution for prospective students. It is held once a year before the beginning of the academic year.However, unlike previous years, this year’s CUSAS is being held virtually in observance of the social distance rule occasioned by the COVID-19 caused by a
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, speaks with OLALEYE ALUKO about government’s plan to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing university lecturers’ strike over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, among other issues After about three months’ closure of schools due
