Margaret Lawrence University has banned the use of smartphones on its campus as part of measures aimed at improving students’ concentration and academic performance. The university announced that any student caught using a smartphone for the first time risks a two-week suspension, with stricter penalties for repeated violations, reports Vangua...
•Federal University Dutse main gate The Senate of the Federal University, Dutse, in Jigawa State, has approved the expulsion of 20 students and the rustication of 15 others over their involvement in examination malpractice. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director, Academic Affairs, Nora Dannatta, and issued in Dutse by the univ...
•Bayero University Kano main gate Bayero University Kano has threatened to impound stray animals found roaming within its campuses and sanction their owners. A statement today by the university’s Director of Public Affairs, Lamara Garba, on behalf of the Registrar, warned that “the rearing of animals within the university premises is strictly ...
Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU), Katsina, has conferred a posthumous honorary Doctorate Degree in Political Science on the late former President Muhammadu Buhari. The award, approved by the Governing Council of the university, was presented during the institution’s 14th convocation ceremony held yesterday in Katsina, reports Sunday Trust...
Legal icon and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has expressed the university’s readiness to find a lasting solution to Cancer treatment. Speaking during the signing of an ambitious Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese firm, Cherami-PV Group, Babalola declared that the university is ready to deploy...
•Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) The management of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, has debunked allegations that it compelled its nurses to carry out cleaning duties due to the ongoing Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) strike, which has kept some hospital workers, including cleaners, a...
•University of Calabar main gate The University of Calabar has threatened to sanction any Head of Department (HOD) who arbitrarily delays students’ results or violates the laws guiding the institution. The warning was conveyed in a release signed by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Offiong Efanga Offiong, and obtained by our reporter. Meanwhile, the...
•Medical students The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of an 18-year-old 300-level student of the College of Health Sciences, Department of Medicine and Surgery. The student, Timilehin Adetoye Toromade, reportedly died in his sleep in the early hours o...
•LASU main gate The management of Lagos State University has warned students, staff, and visitors against producing offensive or unauthorised skits on its campuses, following Wednesday’s scare caused by a prank video that mimicked a bandit attack. The December 5 incident, captured in a skit titled “Bandits Prank on Lasuites”, showed individual...
•LASUED main gate The Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) yesterday decried rape and disowned one Mr Kolawole Muyiwa, who was convicted of rape, as a staff member of the institution. The LASUED Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bilkis Lafiaji-Okuneye, who described rape as debasing to humanity, told our correspondent in Lagos that the school mai...
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