Entertainment gist

JAMB opens Portal for 2020/2021 Admission

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) has reopened portal for the 2020/2021 admissions. The board said opening the portal gives institutions access to upload names of shortlisted applicants for the 2020/2021 admissions. The spokesperson for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed this in a telephone interview on Wednesday with the news corespondent He quoted the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, as saying that admission processes must go through the Central Admission Processing System for approval . “Of course, long ago. Any institution, not just public that wants to is already uploading,” Oloyede was quoted as saying. Earlier, JAMB notified the public not to fall victim to fraudsters and rumour mongers. The board who gave the opinion in a weekly bulletin of the Office of the Registrar said that it has yet to begin the sale of the 2021 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination forms. JAMB reiterates that it has not begun the sale of its 2021 UTME and Direct Entry app...

ASUU strike: We will shut down all private varsities, says NANS president

The new President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, has vowed to shut down all private universities in the country should the nine-month strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities continue The NANS president said this while speaking on a news network outlet, (PUNCH) Online interview programme, The Roundtable. He lamented that the ongoing strike is the longest industrial action embarked on by the university lecturers. According to him, NANS would engage the Federal Government representatives and ASUU leaders to find a lasting solution to resolve the stalemate in negotiations between the two arms The NANS president said after consultation with the two parties and should the strike not be called off as soon as possible, NANS would move in and shut down all tertiary institutions in the country

UniAbuja VC, Na'Allah shed light on Resumption Date, Virtual Classroom System, Fencing Contract

My dear University Community, I like to wish you all a Happy and Prosperous 2021! I must thank you all for your great efforts in ensuring that despite all difficulties, we ended 2020 well and became much stronger as a University. 2020 saw us all confronted with the coronavirus pandemic. Some of our staff and students died, many of us lost loved ones to death in natural, sickness and accident circumstances, and towards the end of December 2020, we also lost our Pioneer Vice Chancellor, Professor Isa Baba Mohammed, may God forgive him his sins and bless him with al-jannat. Yet, 2020 saw many remarkable successes for our University to which we must thank God. In the same 2020, University of Abuja acadeic staff received external research grants to the tune of about N704 million. Also in 2020, our University received an infrastructure grant from Tetfund of N5 Billion to construct a new Senate Building, an International Conference Centre and road and landscaping and pa...

Uniabuja Channel

Search This Blog