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UNIMAID ANNOUNCE COMMENCEMENT OF POST-UTME University of Maiduguri has released information requesting all prospective students to take part in the online post-Utme exceecise which is slated for the period of two weeks. The statement reads..... "This  is  to  inform  all  candidates  who  applied  for  admission into  degree  programmes  of the  University of Maiduguri  for the  2017/2018  Academic  Session  and  have  scored  160  and above  in  the  UTME,  and  a  minimum  of  Credit  in  Diploma, 10  points  in  NCE/IJMB  or  Second  Class  Lower  Division  from a  recognized  institution  for  DE  that  there  will  be  online screening  for admission. Candidates  should  visit  the  University  of  ...

UTME: 569,395 candidates score over 200 marks – Registrar The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Tuesday said 569,395 of the 1.7 million candidates that wrote this year’s UTME scored over 200 marks. Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar, JAMB, disclosed this at the policy meeting of the stakeholders of Tertiary Institutions in Abuja. He said 23.8 per cent of the total number of the candidates scored below 160 marks. He said the stakeholders unanimously agreed that the minimum cut-off marks for the university degree is to stand at 120. The stakeholders, according to him, peg that of Polytechnic to be 100, College of Education 100, while National Innovative Enterprise Institution remained at 110 marks. The registrar said the timelines for admission of the first choice was October 15, while the second choice would be December 15. Oloyede urged the heads of the various tertiary institutions to set their modalities for admissions exercises as it was not the board’s...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Nigeria after nearly four months in the United Kingdom where he received medical treatment for an undisclosed ailment. The Nigerian Airforce plane carrying Mr. Buhari landed at the Abuja international airport at exactly 4.36 p.m. Nigerian time. The president is expected to inspect a guard of honour mounted by the Nigerian Army at the presidential wing of the airport, before leaving for the presidential villa at Asokoro district of Abuja. Dozens of state officials arrived the airport hours earlier to await Mr. Buhari’s arrival. More details later.

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has called on the Federal government to do all within its powers to get the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, back to the classrooms. The students association made the call through its President, Comrade Chinonso Obasi, who said that the demands of the Academic Union were reasonable. “It is with deep pain and regret that NANS received the news of another indefinite strike by ASUU. “The demands of ASUU are reasonable and touch on the integrity of government, especially in the light of the fight against corruption.” The student body issued a 21 days ultimatum to government at all levels to resolve outstanding issues with ASUU. Obasi added that Nigerian students would also mobilize against politicians whose children were not in public institutions. In the coming weeks, NANS will be meeting with leaders of ASUU to find a solution to their demands. The Academic Staff of Universities in Nigeria...

The meeting was held on Tuesday at the Minister’s Conference Room The meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has ended in Abuja. The meeting, held on Tuesday at the Minister’s Conference Room, Ministry of Labour, Abuja, took significant steps toward the resolution of the issues raised by ASUU. According to the Deputy Director, Press, Ministry of Labour, Samuel Olowookere, the meeting agreed on the forensic audit of the sum of N30 billion earlier given to the ASUU in 2010. Olowookere said the meeting further agreed on monthly remittances to ASUU, while the audit last. The minister assured members of ASUU and Nigerians that government was already at work to resolve all outstanding issues in line with the present administration’s commitment to prevent disruption of academic calendar in universities. ASUU had on Monday declared indefinite strike to protest non impleme...

A statement signed by Prof. Danjuma Gambo, Director, Radio and Public Relations, on Thursday in Maiduguri stated that none of the school’s personnel resigned from duty due to attacks by the insurgents. The management of the University of Maiduguri has denied report of the purported resignation of 70 lecturers due to upsurge in Boko Haram attacks on the university community. A statement signed by Prof. Danjuma Gambo, Director, Radio and Public Relations, on Thursday in Maiduguri stated that none of the school’s personnel resigned from duty due to attacks by the insurgents. The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that the university had recently being the target of suicide bomb attacks by the insurgents. On July 7, the insurgents attacked a team of oil exploration workers from the university and the National Nigeria Petroleum Corporation. They killed five staff of the university and abducted four others. Gambo dismissed the report as “false and misleading’...

University lecturers are set for another strike over the controversial 2009 agreement they reached with the Federal Government among other issues. A meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of ASUU will hold today in Abuja ahead of the action. Yesterday, all chapters of the union nationwide held a congress as directed by its national body to decide whether or not to go ahead with the planned strike. The options given to them are: Whether it should be total and indefinite strike, one month strike, one week notice, and no strike at all. This followed the directive sent to branches by ASUU National President Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi as he was mandated by the NEC meeting held at the Nasarawa State University (NSU). Chairman ASUU-Lagos State University (LASU) Dr Isaac Akinloye Oyewunmi said yesterday that the chapter resolved in favour of “total and indefinite strike”. In August last year, the union threatened strike over thengovernment’s failure to implement t...