Academic activities at the University of Ibadan International School this morning paralysed as the school management have again locked the classrooms due to protest by parents and muslim community over the use of Hijab by some female Muslim students…
FG to release intervention funds
The TETFund Executive Secretary, Dr Bichi Baffa, said this in Abuja last Friday, while enlisting 14 new institutions that would receive the funds.
Baffa said the beneficiaries must adhere to the operational guidelines of the funds and ensure transparency in their implementation of various projects.
Our correspondent learnt that the new institutions expected to receive the funds in 2019 include First Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State; College of Education, Lanlate, Oyo State; University of Medical Sciences, Ondo State; Gombe State College of Education; Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa, Oyo State and Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa.
NANS tells Ibadan Poly to withdraw N32,000 acceptance charge
He pointed out that the leadership of the students body had met with Minister of Education in its bid to ensure a better and affordable educational status for students. According to him, one of the issues discussed at the meeting was “the regular abstract charges of acceptance fee by schools.”
The statement read, “The President of NANS, Comrade Danielson Bamidele Akpan, has directed that the management of the Polytechnic of Ibadan, should as a matter of urgency withdraw totally the acceptance charges of N32,000.”
The Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State, has been renamed
The change of name was made known in a statement issued by the management of the university through its spokesperson, Mr. Femi Babatunde, and made available to our correspondent on Monday.
The statement partly reads, “Being Nigeria’s pioneer technical university, the addition of the word ‘First’ to the former rendering of the name is deemed necessary to reassert the unique leadership position of the institution in the nation’s tertiary education space and beyond.
“Also, the recent amendment provides legal authority for Tech-U to receive grants and to enter into partnerships with public or private sources, other than the Oyo State Government. Consequently, Tech-U may now solicit and invite private partners to invest in the university, its programmes and objectives.