24-year-old Nigerian Doctor Toluwalase Awoyemi emerges winner of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarships
Out of the 2,948 applications received from intending scholars across the world, Toluwalase and Emmanuelle were selected to be among the 15 most qualified candidates that made the final cut and eventually emerged winners. According to Ndidi Nwuneli, a member of the West Africa Selection Committee, it was a keenly contested award. He said, “All fifteen finalists were remarkably brilliant with outstanding individual qualities but we could only select two. For Emmanuelle and Toluwalase, this is an award well deserved, and we have no doubt that they will go on to excel in their chosen field of study and do the continent proud.”
Federal cabinet approves 6 new private universities
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved six new private universities.
They are Admiralty Univerity, Ibusa, Delta State; Spiritan University, Nneochi, Abia State; Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Others are Pamo University of Medical Sciences, Port Harcourt, Rivers State; Atiba University, Oyo State; and Eko University of Medical and Health Sciences Lagos.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, told journalists after the FEC meeting, that more requests for private universities’ approval were underway.
He said the Nigerian Universities Commission would take the issue of accreditation very seriously “and if any university fails to meet their standard, we are going to deregister their courses and if enough courses are deregistered, it will lead to the closure of the university.”
Source : Dailytrust
Nigerian columnist leads exceptional Nigerian researchers in the UK with a qualification
The overseeing editorial manager of The Nigerian News London, Angula Jessica drove other Nigerian individuals from her MBA class at the Coventry University to come finish with a refinement. Angula moved on from the Benue State University, Makurdi in 2013 and had enlisted among other Nigerian understudies at the Coventry University United Kingdom for her MBA in (Oil and Gas Management) in 2016. She came best of her class with a First Class in an occasion that was held at the Guild Hall, Buckingham City, London.