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November 27, 2021 No Responses

Oil Palm: Igbinedion Varsity Secures N500m CBN Facility

The Igbinedion University, Okada, has secured a N500 million Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) facility to resuscitate and expand its existing oil palm plantation. The university’s Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, made this known on Friday in Okada, Edo State,...

September 27, 2021 No Responses

Shell Donates Subsea Training Facilities To Uniport

The Nigeria deep-water arm of global energy giant, Shell, has donated multimillion naira laboratory equipment and software packages to the Offshore Technology Institute of the University of Port Harcourt as part of the company’s Nigerian content human capita...

September 24, 2021 No Responses

UNILAG, Three Others Get £1.9m Research Grant

The University of Lagos (UNILAG), two other Universities in Africa and one in the United Kingdom, have been awarded a research grant worth £1.9m by the United Kingdom Research Institute (UKRI). The grant, which is for a three-year research project (2021-2...

September 21, 2021 No Responses

New LASU VC Seeks Support Of Staff, Students

The newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has urged all members of staff and students to support and cooperate with her administration for peace to continue to reign in the institution. Th...

September 11, 2021 No Responses

Igali, FUTA Pro-Chancellor Hails 14 Dons Over National Research Grants

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Ambassador Godknows Igali have described the institution as a citadel of learning with a crop of excellent scientists at par with their contemporaries in other ...

September 6, 2021 No Responses

Shell Donates Auditoriums, Eight Lecture Rooms, Others To Maritime University

Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has described phase one of the infrastructure projects donated to the Nigerian Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Delta State by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and its joint venture...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

Nexford University Partners Sterling Bank On Capacity Building, Others

Nexford University, a Washington D.C. based next-generation online university, has announced new partnership with Sterling Bank, one of Nigeria’s commercial banks. Nexford University in a statement sent to City BusinessNews (www.citybusinessnews....

August 19, 2021 No Responses

NEPZA Backs Partnership To Develop Abuja University

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has expressed readiness to support the partnership between Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and University of Abuja for the university’s permanent site development. A statement by Mr Martin...

August 11, 2021 No Responses

COVID-19: SIFAX Boss Advocates Improved University ICT infrastructure

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic that slowed down teaching and learning in the country’s educational institutions, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Group Executive Vice Chairman, SIFAX Group, has tasked relevant stakeholders in the education ecosystem on the need to upgra...

July 28, 2021 No Responses

JAMB Releases 14,620 UTME Results Under Investigations, Withholds 93

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared and released the UTME results of 14,620 candidates that were hitherto under investigation while withholding the results of 93 other candidates. In a statement on Tuesday, the board Head, Media...

July 14, 2021 No Responses

Ogun Varsity Generates N3.4b In Six Months

The Vice-Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye in Ogun State, Prof. Ganiu Olatunde, on Tuesday disclosed that the institution generated more than N3.4 billion revenue between January and June this year. Olatunde disclosed this while ...

July 13, 2021 No Responses

Entries For NCC’s 2021 National Essay Competition Ends July 30

Entries for the 3rd National Essay Competition of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) ends Friday, 30th July, 2021. Titled:5G Technology: Opportunities & Challenges, the competition now in its third edition is designed to inspir...

June 20, 2021 No Responses

Irregularities, Confusion Greet 2021 UTME

By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com — Criticisms have trailed the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which commenced nationwide on Saturday, June 19th, 2021. Some centers, accredited for the computer-basedexamination con...

June 17, 2021 No Responses

JAMB Releases 2021 Mock Result

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the result of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mock exam conducted on June 3, 2021. JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Wednesday said: &n...