The N80 million is to cover the fees the parents paid for their wards for the 2017 WAEC and NECO examinations
The refund was for only candidates who obtained at least five credits and above. The sum of over N80 million has been returned to parents by the Katsina state government, to cover the fees they paid for their wards for the 2017 Senior Secondary School WAEC and NECO examinations.
Governor Aminu Bello Masari’s director-general, media and publicity, Malam Ibrahim Muazzam, in a press statement, on Tuesday, December 19, noted that the refund was for only candidates who obtained at least five credits and above at the examinations.
Source: NaijaNews
SSANU, NASU, NAAT Strike Continues
Meeting between federal government officials and universities’ unions ended in a deadlock
The leaders of all the university unions in various branches and institutions have been informed on the outcome of the meeting The effort to end the ongoing strike by unions of Nigerian university workers has reached a deadlock, Premium Times reports.
A meeting between the federal government officials and the university workers on Tuesday, December 19, ended without an agreement between both parties. Speaking after the meeting, some executives of the unions – Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) said the strike would continue.
Source : PremiumTimes
JAMB Accredits 72 Centres In Lagos
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accredited 72 centres in Lagos State for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The State Coordinator, Mr. Sunday Aladegbaye, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos that 63 centres were accredited for the examination this year.
He said the increase indicated that more candidates were likely to participate in 2018 Computer Based UTME.
“Preparations are in top gear for the examination in the state.
“We have accredited 72 centres that have met our requirements for the conduct of the mock and the main examination in 2018.
“But this figure can increase,’’ Aladegbaye said.
He warned mischief makers to desist from setting up strange centres for registration to defraud innocent Nigerians.
“Experience has shown that some group of persons will create a strange website in the name of JAMB and be registering candidates to defraud them.
“This is misleading just as it is criminal.
“We also wish to reach out to candidates to go to only approved centres for their registration.
“We (JAMB) will not be accountable for anything that happens to them.’’
The JAMB official said the board would prosecute any person or group of persons caught operating any illegal or unaccredited registration centre for its examinations.
He said the board was prosecuting a fraudster in court for allegedly registering candidates for the 2017 UTME.
“He operated the centre at a place very close to our Lagos office on Ojora Way in Lagos.
“When he was caught, he did not show any remorse.
“We will continue with the case until justice is achieved, to act as a deterrent to others.
“We are a credible organisation and feel strongly that things should be done the right way and with due process.
“It is only logical that any person or persons willing to do business with JAMB should go through the right channel in order not to cause Nigerians pains,’’ Aladegbaye said.
SSANU, NASU, NAAT request N30 billion from FG to end strike
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) have asked the federal government to release the sum of N30 billion to them.
The unions said the N30 billion is a condition given to the federal government to fulfill before they can call off their ongoing industrial strike action. The demand was made by the national vice president of SSANU, Alfred Jimoh, during a protest against FG’s refusal to negotiate and the failure of government officials to honour agreement reached with them.
Speaking to journalists, Jimoh said, should the federal government release the N30 billion as requested, it would be added to the N4.6 billion shared among the three non-teaching staff of the unions. Jimoh said: “Government should release more funds to take care of the arrears of the earned allowance of the three non-teaching staff of universities and commence the immediate implementation of the allowances to forestall further accumulation of the arrears.”
Source : Vanguard
Discovering panacea to colleges’ budgetary weight
In February 2010, irate students at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, were reported to have gone on rampage setting ablaze supermarkets filling stations, and raiding banks. The students were protesting the hike in school fees from N26, 000 to N76, 000 for full-time and from N30, 000 to N100, 000 for part-time students.
On the other hand, university workers are complaining of lack of adequate funding for tertiary institutions.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for five months in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996, went on strike because of it. They downed tool again for three months in 2001; two weeks in 2002; six months in 2003; three months in 2007; four months in 2009; five months in 2010; three months in 2011; and six months in 2013.
Source : Guardian
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.”
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.
International Students Scholarships at Sage University in India, 2018
The Sage University is offering scholarships for new international students. Scholarships cover 10% to 30% tuition fees to pursue degree programmes available within the university.
SAGE University (SU) where technology, innovation and entrepreneurship come together to create a dynamic learning environment. Learning for employment is key at SU.
Source : Scholarship-positions
I never permitted a mental imbalance shame prevent me from accomplishing significance – Prof Imafidon, Oxford don
Nigerian-born Chris Imafidon is a Professor at the University of Oxford, England. Though autistic, Imafidon, whose children have been described as world’s brainiest kids, tells ‘NONYE BEN-NWANKWO, how he got to the height he has achieved
You were at the University of Ilorin recently during their graduation and you said you would give a scholarship to the worst graduating student. Why?
You might need to ask my grandmother that because she believes that every child, without exception, has a lot to contribute to the society. She would find out what you are capable of doing. In my own generation, I try to implement what she lived by. She didn’t just preach it, she did it. She was interested in every child. I did what she would have done. She is gone now. But I am here to represent her voice.
I must not let her voice be unheard in my generation, I will always echo it and my mantra is that every child is a genius. If every child is a genius, then it shouldn’t matter if you are at the top of the class, bottom or middle. The lecturers were arguing with me but I told them that they would see what these people they judged the worst students would become. I would give them scholarships and if they don’t beat the ones you say are the best students after three years, I will publicly apologise.
Source : Punch
EDO STATE EMERGE WINNERS OF LAFARGE NATIONAL LITERACY COMPETITION
Edo state has risen champs of the 2017 Lafarge National Literacy Competition. 11 year old Yusuf Hassan and 10-year old Faith Toun-Agbai from Edo state developed champs in the definitely challenged finals.
Alternate finalists were Plateau, Anambra, Ondo, Kano and Gombe. Ondo state took the second prize while Kano and Gombe developed third and fourth separately.
Oby Ezekwesili, previous Minister of Education while conveying a keynote address at the occasion complimented Lafarge for concentrating the activity on open elementary schools the nation over.
Source : Businessandeducation