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The 2015/2016 freshers registration of the Federal University of Technology Minna has commenced.

The registration is done online in the following order:

STAGE 1: CLEARANCE

STEPS:

-Click on ‘e-portal Button’

-Enter your Student ID and Password to login to your personal page

-Enter your date of birth, nationality and number of sittings of your examinations

-Click the button ‘Update Admission Data’ to continue, in case the system logs you out; re-login with your Student ID and Password and continue.

-Click on ‘Personal...

In continuation of the 2015/2016 Admissions Exercise, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) will start the sale of Supplementary Admissions Forms on Friday, November 20, 2015.

Interested candidates who made FUTO their choice University, who must have sat for the 2015/2016 Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (PUTME) and Direct Entry Screening Test in FUTO, and who scored a minimum of 180 in the FUTO PUTME and 40 in the DE Test are eligible to apply.

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This is to inform 2015/2016 aspirants of University nof Jos that the list of admitted candidates is now available on school portal.

Please follow the steps below to view your admission status.
1. Visit mis.unijos.edu.ng/utme_portal
2. Click on the Login tab.
3. Enter your JAMB Registration Number and Access Code in the login form.
4. Click on the LOGIN button.
5. A modal window will appear on your screen, click on the CLICK TO PROCEED button.
6. Click on Activity Menu on the navigation bar.
7. Select Admission.

This is to notify returning and first batch of new students that accommodation reservation will commence today 18th November, 2015.

The portal will be accessible as from 12.00 noon.

Please login to your portal http://www.uilugportal.unilorin.edu.ng/ to access it

The current news as the National Open University of Nigeria has received approval to participate in the National Youth Service Corps. This simply implies that the graduates of National Open University of Nigeria can now participate in the 1 year National Youth Service Scheme. This will is a welcomed development as NOUN graduates will no longer feel disadvantaged in the midst of their counterparts from other schools.

On the 27th of June this year, Onoriode Reginald Aziza, a graduate from the prestigious Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University will be having his graduation ceremony from Cambridge University. Bellanaija profiles the outstanding excellence of Onoriode in an interview. Relax and read:

The star of today’s show is deserving of all the celebration we can muster because he has distinguished himself on three different levels of academic pursuit. Graduating from the...

Members of the National Union of Lagos State Students (NULASS) have appealed to Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to urgently make a decisive decision on the lingering crisis at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo.

Speaking at a briefing during the weekend, NULASS National President and student of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Daniju Sultan, said failure of government to resolve the crisis hitherto does not portray a good image on the state, thus the union’s...

The Governing Council of the University of Calabar, Cross River State on Friday announced Prof. Zana Itiunbe Akpagu as the new and 10th Vice Chancellor of the institution.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Akpagu is the immediate past Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) in the university.
In a statement signed by Effiong Eyoh, the institution’s spokesman, Akpagu is the second Vice Chancellor to emerge from the Faculty of Arts, after the short-lived tenure...

A 400 level student in the department of Modern European Languages, Uthman Danfodio University, Sokoto, Chijoke Osinachi, has emerged the winner of a Hyundai i10 car at the recently concluded Etisalat CliqFest nationwide campus tour.
Chijoke Osinachi was selected from a raffle draw supervised by renowned motivational speaker, Niyi Adesanya, the University’s Dean of Students’ Affairs, Prof A.A. Aleiro and winner, Nigerian Idol 2015, K-Peace whose real name is Olakunle Ogunrombi.

Not a few Nigerians will find it amusing knowing that a respected professor and administrator who served Nigeria for 37 years as a university lecturer and briefly as Vice Chancellor of University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, is wallowing in abject poverty.

The misery of Prof Theo Vincent, a professor of English language, is made worse with his current blind status and lack of cash which has forced the former English lecturer of the University of Lagos to have his abode in a ghetto, notorious for vices, after he was allegedly ejected from his comfortable accommodation for inability...

The Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old 400-level student in his office, was yesterday suspended by the panel instituted by the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivara Esu.

Vanguard reports that Professor Ndifon, the first professor of Law from Cross River State, was briefly arrested and detained by the police and later released on Wednesday before he was suspended.

Ndifon was accused by mother of the victim, Mrs. Irene Akpan, in a letter sent to the university, alleging that the incident happened...

Governor Samuel Ortom has announced the Benue State government’s plans to merge the Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture Yandev and the Benue State University.

He made the disclosure during a courtesy call on the Executive Secretary and management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) in Abuja yesterday.

The governor said that with the briefing he received from the Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, he would fast-track the merger so that the institution could benefit from TETFUND’s intervention.

The Secretary had stated that the organsation...

The recent ban on staff and students’ unionism by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has sparked off debates at the various study centres of the university. At its 14th matriculation, the reasons for the ban were revealed. AUGUSTINE PAUL-AGBO reports

“The formation of students and staff unions and associations are not permitted in NOUN. This is due to the diverge nature of our students and staff in terms of age, class, status, professional callings as well as belonging to many existing unions and associations.” This was the hard core message by the vice-chancellor, National...

Something is killing Nigerian students, right in the institutions where they are supposed to be learning skills that will make them useful to themselves, their families and the nation. It is not violence, cultism, hunger, illnesses or terrorists.


The things that is killing them is the very thing that should be keeping them alive and fit to fulfil the purpose that brought them to the universities in the first place – Hospitals,...

The Deputy Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Adam Idoko, has been kidnapped.

Idoko is also the Chief Imam of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Premium Times reports that the Islamic scholar, popular in the South East, was abducted in the early hours of Thursday in his village, Ogrute Enugu-Ezike in Nsukka, Enugu state.

The Chief Imam of Nagazi-Uvete Jumu’at Mosque, Okene, Kogi State, Murtada Gusau, said the Muslim community had reported the incident to the police shortly after it happened.

Police Public Relations...

The Students' Union Building TV room of Obafemi Awolowo University is set to wear a new look as massive renovation work is ongoing there.

The indelible impacts as promised by the Union president, Omotayo Akande a.k.a TY may not have spared the SUB as he opined that it should be a befitting structure.

Barely 130 days in office, TY and other Union officers have defied norms and practices of previous Union executives as they have denied themselves the privileges of collecting tickets for meal and other material things from the occupants of the Students' Union Building for the...

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has told students of Obafemi Awolowo University that the body is no longer foolish like before in its dealings. In a program powered by the Division of Student Affairs, OAU in conjuction with NYSC, the later has educated the final year students and prospective corp members on what the Youth Service entails and what to expect during the period. Addressing a cross section of OAU students at the Chemical Engineering lecture theatre in the institution on Wednesday, Mr Aremu Kehinde who is the Assistant Director, Man Power Planning, NYSC said most nowadays graduates...

Campus journalists in Obafemi Awolowo University under the aegis of the Association of Campus Journalists (ACJ) have vowed to snub the Students’ Union press conference billed for Monday, 14th September, 2015 at the state capital, Osogbo. The decision to snub the planned press conference is coming after the announcement made today at various Halls of residence of the institution inviting students who wish to follow the Union to Osogbo for the press conference. Campus journalists have complained of the continued disregard of the internal media by the Union especially the Central Executive Council...