Month: September 2014

I watched a programme on the television recently. It was called ‘50 ways to kill your mother’ and it made quite interesting viewing. A son took his elderly mother on adventures of a lifetime in order that she might experience some real thrills in life and not just sitting in the house waiting for death….

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENTIAL STANDING COMMITTEE ON INVENTORS AND INNOVATIONS (PSCII) IN NIGERIA In 2005, a Presidential Standing Committee on Inventions and Innovations was set up to: i. Encourage innovations and inventions in technology in Nigeria. ii.Examine any research claims and access what can be done to take such claims to prototype…

Want to study abroad? The United kingdom Education Advisory Service has successfully executed over 5 education fairs with a track record of high attendance by both partner exhibitors and prospective applicants. The sixth UKEAS education exhibition comes up from 22nd -27th of September 2014 at in Accra and Lagos respectively. Note: Please come along with all…

The SEC Capital Market Essay Competition for Journalists, an annual event of the SEC, is a specific capacity building mechanism for the media industry. It also fosters investor education through interest in reading and writing about the markets among journalists as well as the wider society. In line with the objective of widening knowledge of…

Twenty-two-year-old United Kingdom-born Nigerian, Alfred Ajani, employs an unconventional job-search method to break off from the shackles of unemployment. Alfred Ajani was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The British-born Nigerian whose father hails from Ibadan, Oyo State, struggled hard to see himself through university education. After bagging a second class upper…

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into Nigeria Tertiary institutions through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for the 2015/2016 academic session which shall be on Computer Based Test (CBT) mode only. REGISTRATION PERIOD The registration period is Monday 15th September, 2014 to Thursday, 15th January, 2015 and the website closes on…

UNIVERSITY OF UYO, UYO P.M.B. 1017, UYO, NIGERIA (OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR) NOTICE OF SCREENING OF DIRECT ENTRY & UTME Candidates who applied to the University of Uyo as their 1st choice University for the 2014/2015 Direct Entry Admission as well as those candidates who duly registered for the PUTME screening exercise but missed the test are…

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into Graduate programmes in the 2014/2015 academic year leading to the award of Post Graduate Diploma, Masters, MPhil and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees of the University of Calabar. A. GENERAL REGULATIONS Courses may be offered full-time or part-time. All programmes begin with coursework and end with a…

Dora Nkem Akunyili (14 July 1954 – 7 June 2014) was born in born in Makurdi, Benue State, but brought up in Nanka and was married in Agulu, both in Anambra State of Nigeria. Dr. Akunyili’s educational career started with her passing the First School Leaving Certificate with Distinction at St. Patrick’s Primary School, Isuofia, Anambra State in 1966,…

The Federal Government has approved the release of the 2014 admission list into Federal Unity Colleges across the country. The Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, who gave the approval on Wednesday in Abuja, directed all prospective candidates can check their admission status online. The government had earlier in the year re-introduced aptitude test…