General Updates
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Senator Offers Free JAMB Registration To 1,000 Candidates
A Senator, Suleiman Adokwe (PDP – Nasarawa South), said he has purchased 1,000 JAMB (tertiary matriculation examinations) forms for distribution free to indigent candidates in the state. The lawmaker told the News Agency Nigeria on Tuesday in Lafia that the forms would be given to…
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Abuja Carnival: 30 Nigerians To Get Scholarship From Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago has announced the award of university scholarship to 30 Nigerian youths to learn the art of management of carnival and costume making for steel band. The offer was made at the weekend by Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister…
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Apply For 2013 Google Cloud Developers Challenge, Win N1Million
Application for 2013 Google Cloud Developers Challenge with a chance to win Win N1Million has commenced. Google is therefore inviting applications from software developers from all over Nigeria to show what they can do with the Google Cloud platform in…
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Teacher Flogs 4-Year Old Pupil To Death In Ondo State
DETECTIVES in Ondo State have detained a primary school teacher, Alade Adebayo, for allegedly flogging to death a four-year-old female pupil Elizabeth Wanogha. The deceased pupil was a student of a private primary school, Falaye Memorial Nursery and Primary School,…
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NCC 2013 Undergraduate Essay Competition – How To Apply
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)Â Undergraduate Essay Competition application for 2013 has started. Applications are invited by the NCC from interested and qualified persons for the 2013 Essay Contest. Details of the Nigerian Communications Commission Essay Contest The theme of the competition…
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ASUU Strike: ASUU As A Political Party
ASUU As a political party is an article written by Emmanuel Ayodeji and published on a column on Guardian Nigeria. Enjoy it and drop your comments. FOR over four months now, academic activities have been non-existent in universities all over…
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Student To Die By Hanging For Stealing GSM Handsets, Recharge Cards
An Effurun high court, has sentenced a 24 year old secondary school student, Moses Akatugba, to death by hanging for robbing GSM handsets and recharge cards, just as a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called ‘okada’ rider was also jailed 15 years…
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SURE-P to Pay 50,000 Unemployed Graduates N25,000 Monthly – FG
50,000 Unemployed Graduates are to be paid N25,000 Monthly by SURE-P according to the Federal Government. Even though this number is nothing compared to the number of unemployed graduates, it is a really great step in the right direction. Graduates…
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Nigerian Graduates Supply Is Higher Than Demand At The Labour Market
Nigerian Graduates Supply is Higher than Demand at the Labour Market: Prof. Julius Okojie, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), on Thursday advised Nigerians not to cheapen the country’s educational system by saying that “its degrees are…
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Pirates Kill Headmaster, Cart Away Teachers’ Salaries In Bayelsa
Pirates operating in the waterways of Bayelsa State have killed a headmaster and carted away an unspecified amount of money meant for teachers’ salaries. The victim, Weky Akparakazi, was killed when the gunmen attacked a passenger boat along the waterways…
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Shell Ideas360 Global Student Competition – Apply Now!
Shell Ideas360 Global Student Competition application for 2014 is currently ongoing. Interested students who meet the criteria stated below can apply fot the competition. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of all Nigerian Universities are encouraged to participate in SHELL IDEAS360, a…
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TOEFL & GRE Suspended In Nigeria Indefinitely
Educational Testing Service (ETS) TOEFL and GRE have been suspended in Nigeria. Candidates who have applied for the Test of English as a Foreign Language and Graduate Record Examination will be issued a refund of whatever they have paid. The…
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