In keeping with our commitment to funding the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Foreign Scholarship Programme, the Interim Management Committee, IMC, has paid $5,910,000 to 197 scholarship beneficiaries of 2019, while payment processes for 94 beneficiaries of 2018 are ongoing. Among the 197 beneficiaries are 43 scholars for Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, comprising 12 for…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state has ordered the reinstatement of four out of seven lecturers demoted by the management of the Federal University, Otuoke, in Ogbia local council area of the state and awarded N20 million fine to the school as damages to affected lecturers.The University management had in…
Prof. F.F.O. Orumwense assumed office as the 9TH substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, by divine providence on November, 30th 2014. May I state here with all modesty, that prior to my appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University, I have had over two decades of experience in University administration in various capacities, the climax…
The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, says that the Commission will meet all its obligations to beneficiaries of its post-graduate foreign scholarship programme. Speaking in an interview at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, Prof Pondei stated that the Commission had no intention of abandoning the scholars…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has called on state governments to engage sustained programmes and action plan to tackle the pervading menace of illicit trafficking in persons.Director-General of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah- Donli who was in Asaba, Delta state on Tuesday, said she was in the state in continuation…
Following the aftermath of the explosion that rockes the Abule-Ado environs of Lagos State today, Rev. Sr. Henrietta Alokha has been confirmed dead. She had tried saving the children under her care, and went back to save more before the roof caved in on her. Most of the students have been accounted for, with minor…
The Registrar, National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe, yesterday said of the 49,302 candidates that sat for National Business Certifate(NBC)/ National Technical Council (NTC) examination, 32,349 candidates scored five credit and above including Mathematics and English language.Prof. Isiugo-Abanihe disclosed this in Benin while announcing the release of the the 2019 November/December…
The Minister of Work and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the federal government has completed 18 out of the 43 road interventions within tertary institutions across the country.Fashola disclosed this yesterday at the University of Benin while commissioning the 0.69 kilometer rehabilitated road and 0.4 kilometer concrete lined drain constructed by the ministry in…
The Governing Board of the National Examinations Council (NECO) has approved the dismissal of 19 staff from her service for certificate forgery. According to the examination body in statement signed by its Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani, the management constituted a Staff Certificate Verification Committee that carried out its assignment with invitation of…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that Nigerians will pay dearly if they discredit the nation’s academics because of sexual harassment in universities. ASUU National Chairman, Dr Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this in Abuja during Senate public hearing on ‘Sexual Harassment of Students in Tertiary Institutions (Prohibition) Bill 2019’. He said this period…
