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We won’t suspend our lecturing for voting- Unilorin VC

 The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole SAN, has said that the institution will not shut down its academic activities during the forthcoming general elections. He, however, clarified that students and staff would not be disenfranchised as the university had designed a programme “where students can attend virtual classes and vote wherever they are.” “We won’t suspend our lecturing for voting, Unilorin is digitised,” he added. The VC also said the management of the university had designed the school’s academic programmes to ensure that all lost academic calendars to the 8 months strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities are recovered latest by October while a new academic session begins in August 2023. Egbewole made this known while fielding questions from journalists during his maiden media parley on Wednesday He said in the last 100 days of his assumption as vice-chancellor, the university under his regime had attracted N500 TET
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LAUTECH Outstanding merit, catchment and direct entry admission list has been released.

 This is to inform the general public, especially candidates who seek admission to various programmes in the university for the 2022/2023 academic session that the outstanding merit, catchment and direct entry admission list has been released. Candidates are therefore advised to visit their individual portals to check their admission status. Successful candidates are to patiently wait for release of their notification of recommendation for admission on JAMB CAPS and further information that will be relayed to them through their individual university admission portals. However, candidates who have applied for change of programmes are to await their admission status which will be released later. With best wishes. Signed Dr. K.A. Ogunleye Registrar Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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We won’t extend UTME registration deadline, JAMB warns

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it would not extend deadline for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it would not extend deadline for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration. According to NAN, Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, gave the warning after monitoring the registration exercise in Kano state on Wednesday. Registration for this year’s UTME started on January 14 and is scheduled to end on February 14. The exam is billed to commence on April 29 and end on May 12. Speaking on the registration exercise, Oloyede said JAMB’s target for the year is to register 1.8 million candidates He also revealed that the board has so far registered a total of 500,000 candidates across the country. The JAMB registrar called on applicants to register for UTME within the stipulated deadline as there will be no extension. “We do not expect any extension as
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JAMB REGISTERS 351,022 CANDIDATES SO FAR FOR 2023 UTME

 The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) has registered a total of 351,022 candidates so far for the 2023 UTME, as at the second week of registration.
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UNILORIN BEGINS VIRTUAL LECTURE FOR LARGE CLASSES

 As promised by the Vice Chancellor,  Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, the University of Ilorin has assigned 500 user accounts of 300-capacity zoom licences to its various Faculties and Departments for the immediate commencement of virtual classes. A statement released to the media by the University's Director of Corporate Affairs,  Mr Kunle Akogun, said that the virtual classes would run simultaneously with physical classes. The statement pointed out that "about 500 user accounts of 300 capacity zoom licences have been assigned to Faculties and Departments for effective virtual delivery of lectures" . It added, "We have also developed virtual class schedule  for courses with class sizes of about 1000, 3000, and 5000 students using the large capacity zoom licences". It pointed out that "physical delivery of lectures/practical sessions in classrooms/laboratories is very important and should be consciously sustained". It would be recalled that in the w
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FUOTUOKE Postgraduate Admission List 2023 | Merit & Supp.

 This is to inform all the candidates that applied for admission into the Federal University, Otuoke (FUOTUOKE) 2021/2022 academic session postgraduate programmes that they can now check their admission status.
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Ola-Gbadamosi Ridwan Oladotun, LASU Best Graduating Student Speaks

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LAGOS—best graduating student at the faculty of Engineering, Lagos State University, in the 2017/18 academic year, Ola-Gbadamosi Ridwan Oladotun, yesterday, told a courageous story of how he had to do menial jobs to educate himself. Oladotun, at the 23rd convocation ceremony of LASU in Ojo campus, held the audience spell bound with his story of breeding chickens before attending classes just to gather enough money for books and school fees. The 22-year old Mechanical Engineering graduate, who made a cumulative grade point average, CGPA of 4.88 to emerge overall best graduating student, said in his valedictory speech that he was determined to succeed and therefore did not mind what he had to go through. Oladotun, who disclosed that he lost his mother at age 12, expressed happiness that his achievement has wiped off all his hardship in school. His words: “Precisely, I attended Federal Government College, Ijanikin in Lagos where I finished as the best graduating student in 2013. My fl
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At 12, my mum mandated me to read every night – Lawal, OAU first-class graduate

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For the first time in years , the Department of English at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife , Osun State produced first - class graduates, and the duo of Kehinde Lawal and a colleague achieved the feat . Interestingly, they both graduated with 4 .56 CGPA. In this interview with TUNDE AJAJA , 23 - year - old Lawal speaks on this great feat and other things of interest about her days in school We learnt your department has not produced any first - class graduate in years, did you set out to break that record when you got into the department or it happened by providence? The negative comments that spread all over OAU about the Department of English was enough to discourage anybody that planned to achieve that feat. From senior colleagues in the department to other places , the submission was the same . You hear comments like: ‘ Don’ t stress yourself reading too much , you won ’ t graduate with a first - class degree’ . It was so strong that when I got into the department , I became
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Nigerian-born Tobechukwu Phillips shatters American school’s 125-year academic history

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A Nigerian - born teenager , Tobechukwu Phillips has shattered the 125 academic history of her high school in Texas , US . Phillips , a student of Alvin High School boasted a 6 . 9 GPA , after she earned A’ s throughout her stay in the school . She emerged the first Black valedictorian in the school ’ s history . Alvin High School was originally established in 1894 . African- American students were allowed to join the school in 1965. Speaking to Because of Them We Can, Phillips said , “ Maintaining the highest GPA in my class is a difficult task . It truly takes time management but more importantly acknowledging what you do it for. I know that I am no longer just representing myself . ”       Phillips had a word of advice for other students . She said , “ My biggest advice to other scholars of colour is to truly adopt the mindset of Rosa Parks — ‘ No . ’ Do not conform to the stereotypes that have held us under thumbs for so long , ” she explained. “ Do not be discouraged when some
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Nuhu Ibrahim’s Open Secret to Graduating with a 4.94 CGPA from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)

The rigours and challenges notwithstanding, acquiring a University education has become a standard dream of sorts to be pursued by all means in today’s society. For the few fortunate ones who manage to scale through the various competitive examinations and screenings to eventually become admitted, staying on course and graduating with reasonable grades can be a rough ride; but some even fewer sub-set of humans in the University education system do graduate with the ultimate reward: First Class degrees! Then there are those really rare species of humans that seem to be born only once in a century or thereabouts, and we call them “geniuses”. The Department of Computer Science happens to have recently produced one of them in the person of Mr. Nuhu Ibrahim (an indigene of Kaduna State, Nigeria) who bagged a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a final CGPA of 4.94 out of 5.00 – the highest ever recorded in the history of ABU since its establishment in 1962. For about two w
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Nigerian First Class Student Who Became A Lecturer At 24 Graduates From Harvard In Flying Colours

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A brilliant Nigerian man, Kenneth Ononeze Okwor has achieved great academic excellence in a distant land after graduating in style from Harvard University. Kenneth who hails from Nsukka area of Enugu state obtained a Masters Degree (LLM) Harvard Law School as he graduated with his colleagues today in America. The young man who graduated from the University of Jos, bagged a First class degree from the Nigerian Law School. He also made distinctions in Commercial Law, International Law and the Law of Evidence at University of Jos. Kenneth Okwor became a lecturer of Corporate Law and Practice at 24 at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos Campus. He made history at the Nigerian Law School after he was named the winner of ten prestigious awards.
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Nigerian make distinction at Hopkins University, USA.

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A 22 year old Nigerian, the best graduating student at John Hopkins University in the U.S Emmanuel Ohuabunwa, a native of Arochukwu, Abia State has made Nigeria proud by making the history in becoming the first black man to make a GPA of 3.98 on a 4 point scale. Ohuabunwa graduated from Neuroscience with the highest honor. With a academic result so excellent, Emmanuel received a scholarship for Yale University in the United States with admission to study Medicine. Emmanuel who was born in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to the United States with his parents at the age of thirteen stated he saw his parents as his role model. He stated he takes his education very seriously right from the get go. “I knew I wanted to go to the best school in the US. I had heard that Johns Hopkins Hospital had been ranked the number one hospital in the US for the past 21 years and I wanted to be in that environment.’’ He decided that working hard is one way he can achieve this dream especially realizing that hi
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Control Your Temper (Anger)

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There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence. On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day he kept his temper under control. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. “you have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave
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The Butterfly (Struggles)

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A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked like it was stuck. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man didn’t think anything of it and sat there waiting for the wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn’t happen. The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny wings and a swollen body. Despite the kind heart of the man , he didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself for flying once it
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The Obstacle In Our Path (Opportunity)

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In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. He then hid himself and watched to see if anyone would move the boulder out of the way. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many people loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none of them did anything about getting the stone out of the way. A peasant then came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to push the stone out of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant went back to pick up his vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King explaining that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. Moral of the story: Every obstacle we come across in life gives us an opportunity to improve our circumstances , and whilst the l
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A Pound of Butter (Honesty)

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There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting the right amount, which he wasn’t. Angry about this, he took the farmer to court. The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure to weight the butter. The farmer replied, “Honor, I am primitive. I don’t have a proper measure, but I do have a scale.” The judge asked, “Then how do you weigh the butter?” The farmer replied; “Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker.” Moral of the story: In life, you get what you give. Don’t try and cheat others.
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The Group of Frogs (Encouragement)

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As a group of frogs was traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them. However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were saying and they proceeded to try and jump out of the pit . Despite their efforts, the group of frogs at the top of the pit were still saying that they should just give up. That they would never make it out. Eventually, one of the frogs took heed to what the others were saying and he gave up, falling down to his death. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time. Moral of the story: People’s words can have a big effect on
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The Elephant Rope (Belief)

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A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains. All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs. As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all. Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there and never tried to escape. The trainer replied; “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free and escaping from the cam
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You've greatness in you

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Les Brown is one of the world's foremost motivational speakers and thought leaders on self-improvement and goal-setting. However, it wasn't always that way for him. Born in Liberty City, Miami on the floor of an abandoned building, he has known struggle and hardship his entire life. Academically, Les was a struggling student from the get-go. The story goes that during his school days he was labelled "educable mentally handicapped" by the academic intelligentsia of his day and placed back from 6th grade to 5th grade. To make matters worse, he had a twin brother who was exceptionally bright and gifted, and as such Les became commonly referred to by his peers as the "DT"—the "dumb twin." One day a teacher asked him to come up and solve a problem on the chalkboard, but Les refused and said that he couldn't. "Of course you can," the teacher responded encouragingly. "Young man, come up here and solve this problem for me." "
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Teacher's Love 2

Before Maya Angelou became the powerful poet and civil rights activist the world remembers her as, she suffered a life of torment and darkness that nearly stole her voice forever. At a very young age she was forced to endure intense physical and emotional abuse at the hands of a family member. As a result, she became mute for nearly five years. It all changed one day with the help of a family friend, a teacher named Bertha Flowers. Angelou credited Mrs. Flowers for helping her find her own voice again. Through Flowers, she was introduced to African-American female artists like Frances Harper , Anne Spencer , and Jessie Fauset . In addition, Mrs. Flowers introduced Angelou to Dickens, Shakespeare, Poe, and several other prolific writers who would come to greatly influence her personal and professional philosophies. Source: www.wabisabilearning.com/blog/4-stories-great-teachers
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Teacher's Love

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When Bill Gates attended Seattle’s View Ridge Elementary, he was a typical nerdy 4th-grade introvert who always did his best to keep to himself. Thanks to a kindly librarian named Blanche Caffiere, he was able to come into his own in a way that would one day change the world forever. Gates sets the stage for this tale on his blog : "When I first met Mrs. Caffiere, she was the elegant and engaging school librarian at Seattle’s View Ridge Elementary, and I was a timid fourth grader. I was desperately trying to go unnoticed, because I had some big deficits, like atrocious handwriting ... and I was trying to hide the fact that I liked to read—something that was cool for girls but not for boys ... Mrs. Caffiere took me under her wing and helped make it okay for me to be a messy, nerdy boy who was reading lots of books." He credits Mrs. Caffiere for helping him escape his shell in the true spirit of exceptional teaching. First, she encouraged Gates' passion for reading by hel
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LASU best graduating students

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Meet the two Lagos State University best graduating students . Ridwan Ola-Gbadamosi from the Faculty of Engineeering and Karen Nneka Enumah from the Department of Mathematics, the two Best Graduating Students for the 23rd Convocation. They both finished with a CGPA of 4.88 Source https://www.myuniben.com.ng/2019/05/meet-two-lasu-best-graduating-students.html
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Leadership is a responsibility; As displayed by an animal

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This is Gazali Tanimu: 1. First Class Chemical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria 2012. 2. Distinction and Overall best Student in M.Sc Program, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. 3. Best Graduating Ph.D Student, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2018/2019 Academic Session. He's 27.He hails from Zaria, Kaduna State Nigeria. Congratulations Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2019/05/nigerian-man-gazali-tanimu-emerges-best.html
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Federal government grant-copied

Apply for Federal Government Grant Application -Entrepreneurs, Student, NYSC https://federalgrant.org.ng/application /
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I planned to graduate with first class –Temitope,Covenant University graduate

Temitope John , 22, graduated from the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering , Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State in the 2013/ 2014 academic session with a first class , having scored 4 . 53 CGPA . She tells TUNDE AJAJA about her days in school How easy was it to graduate with a first class? I believe we all can do anything we set our heart on. The difference between people who actually achieved what they wanted to is that they continued at that thing , even in the face of challenges . Like many other students , I wanted to graduate with a first class but beyond the wish, I worked towards it . Interestingly, I didn’ t start with a first class in my 100 L. My first Grade Point Average was 3 . 86 /5 . 00. I was marvelled because I knew the amount of work I put into that semester . But I didn ’ t give up . If I were to consider the efforts I invested and what I got , I could have been discouraged , but I had a goal that I was committed to . The next semester , I learnt
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"I Failed To Secure Admission Twice"-UNICAL's Best Graduating Student

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Henry Emmanuel from the Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biological sciences emerged overall best graduating student at the 32nd convocation of the University of Calabar on Saturday 13/04/2019 with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.72. Read what he said " In 2012, I had my second attempt at securing admission in the University of Calabar rejected. I was dejected, demoralised, i was considered a failure by many. Yet, I never gave up those dreams. I saw failure as a lesson, hardwork and resilience, a prerequisite for success. Today, I emerged OVERALL BEST GRADUATING STUDENT at the 32nd convocation of the prestigious University of Calabar, winning multiple awards including the TONY ELUMELU FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST GRADUATING STUDENT.
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Mother Of Four Completed Her Ph.d With 5.0 CPGA

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Ochuwa Momoh George, a mother of four who recently completed her Ph.D from the University of Lagos (UNILAG) became an internet sensation few days after accounting her journey which was crowned with a CGPA of 5.0.    She wrote: “Finally, Ph.D done….I am so glad to announce that I have successfully completed my Ph.D in Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management with a cgpa of 5.0/5.0! This journey has indeed been challenging…. amidst the ASUU strike extending this program for almost 2 sessions, the turbulent waters at one of my study locations in the Lagos lagoon that almost submerged the speed boat during one of my field trips, a full time job and 4 active sons….. Sometimes I wondered how I managed to scale through.
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I Regret Being A "First Class Graduate"

Just as a sick man in his dying bed has a heavy heart laden with lots of grief and regrets of things unaccomplished, I sat there in the fields that warm evening starring at the faculty building with mixed feelings of achievement and regrets. I had lived the life of a perfect student. I had great passion for studying and some sort of insatiable desire for knowledge. I excelled in every of my examinations and this feat spurred up the feeling of invincibility in my subconscious mind. I wasn’t a popular fellow but I believe that mentioning my name portrayed the picture of a focused student with outstanding academic abilities in the mind of the few that knew me. Those few years, I always pictured a beautiful future with me in it doing great things. However, I began to realize the big gap between me and the rest of the world. The wall I built between me and my friends as a freshman. Gradually, I knew names of authors and textbooks and yet hardly remembered the names of friends. It dawned
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Respect! Meet a Genius!

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#MyBarFinalsTestimony is brought to you by the MCQ APP in conjunction with Ekaete Hunter. Name : Geoffrey Chiwetalu Adonu Campus: Lagos Campus (First Class), Director General’s Prize for First Class Students; Hon. Justice Mohammed Bello G.C.O.N Prize for the 2 Over-All Best Student; Mallam Yusuf Alli, S.A.N Prize for the Best Male Student; and the Nigerian Bar Association Prize for the Best Male Student University: Babcock University (First Class ) About: Geoffrey Chiwetalu Adonu, graduated with a First Class from the Nigerian Law School and was the Second Over-All Best graduating Student of the 2015/2016 Academic Session. He won several prizes at the Call to Ceremony held on 30 Novermber, 2016. He also graduated with a First Class from Babcock University Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State. Dubbed Mr. Genuis by the Dean of Law at Babcock University, Emeritus Professor I.O Agbede, Geoffrey is considered a hardworking and humble lad by his peers. He represented the faculty in many competitions
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The Pot of the Wit

Once Emperor Akbar became very angry at his favorite minister Birbal. He asked Birbal to leave the kingdom and go away. Accepting the command of the Emperor, Birbal left the kingdom and started working in a farmer’s farm in an unknown village far away under a different identity. As months passed, Akbar started to miss Birbal. He was struggling to solve many issues in the empire without Birbal’s advice. He regretted a decision, asking Birbal to leave the empire in anger. So Akbar sent his soldiers to find Birbal, but they failed to find him. No one knew where Birbal was. Akbar finally found a trick. He sent a message to the head of every village to send a pot full of the wit to the Emperor. If the pot full of wit can not be sent, fill the pot with diamonds and jewels. This message also reached Birbal, who lived in one of the villages. The people of the village got together. All started talking about what to do now? The wit is not a thing, which can be filled in the pot. How will we ar
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The death of my parents changed me.

How much how parents mean to us we do not know. As an undergraduate in one of the most respected universities in Nigeria. Their demise has created an earthquake in my life. They were my friends, mentors, who did all they can for my sake.  I was always encouraged by my parents since childhood. How would I survive after their death? I always thought.   I have always been a very bright and intelligent student. I had A's in my examinations. I was always determined to be the first. After their demise, things started changing. I cared less about my academic excellence, their memories I could not delete. What a cruel world I live in! All my family members deserted me and my siblings. I am nowhere to be recognised again. Sadness along with tears became my partner. Now I wonder if there is anything important to do in my little world.   Though I was reluctant to share this with Imodola, I plead on you all to always cherish your parents. You won't know their worth until you see their em
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I wasn’t too proud to ask for help from junior colleagues –Oloye, OAU first class graduate

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Year 2017 With a CGPA of 4 .59, Morenikeji Oloye graduated with a first class degree from the Department of Accounting , Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile Ife , Osun State . In this interview with TUNDE AJAJA , the 23- year- old explains why she started taking the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria qualification exams right from her second year. Looking back, are you happy with the choice you made when choosing Accounting? I’ve enjoyed the journey to this point, and I look forward to more exciting and fulfilling opportunities that the profession offers . My parents told me I decided to be an accountant from a tender age . I really cannot figure out what influenced my choice back then or what attracted me to the course, but so far , it is not a bad choice . Accounting is life ! It keeps you in check ; it keeps you disciplined and responsible. It is the backbone of any organisation . The fact that an accountant is an indispensable resource to an entity further deepens my love
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