Nigerian universities update

The registrar of the joint admission and matriculation body has directed all students seeking for admission into various universities of learning should endeavour to upload their WAEC/NECO result in order to be picked for admission.

2018/2019 Merit Registration Exercise for UTME Candidates Registration Schedule and Screening Procedure The 2018/2019 Merit Registration Exercise for all newly admitted UTME undergraduate candidates has been scheduled to hold from Monday, 22nd October to Friday, 9th November, 2018, in various faculties between 9:00a.m. and 3:00p.m. daily. Please note that candidates are to report by 8:30a.m. for the exercise. Prospective candidates are to check their admission status on JAMB website. All newly admitted candidates are advised to adhere strictly to the registration schedule and screening procedure as shown below: SCREENING PROCEDURE Stage 1:  Uploading of Documents Login to the Unilag Students Portal (www.unilag.edu.ng  → students → student login) and fill the biodata form, print the Screening Form.  Students are expected to upload the underlisted documents while filling the Biodata form:     Birth Certificate     Letter of Refer...

Vc task graduate on quality research In its determined bid to ensure that graduate students undertook quality and original research, the School of Graduate Studies held a one-day workshop for them and their supervisors at the Ebitimi Banigo Auditorium, University Park on Thursday, September 20, 2018. Explaining the importance of the workshop to participants, Dean of the School, Professor Anthonia Okerengwo, advised the students to utilise the opportunity afforded them by the workshop to improve the quality and originality of their thesis writing abilities so as to avoid academic fraud or plagiarism that would certainly lead to their expulsion from the programme. In his paper entitled: Template For Writing a PhD Thesis and Presentation, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ndowa Lale, who served as one of the Resource Persons, described a PhD thesis as the highest degree awarded by any university. He pointed out that students must demonstrate the ability to carry out original and well-struc...

Contrary to the misleading interpretation of the vision behind the establishment of the University of Port Harcourt Parents' Forum (UPHPF) by some parents and students, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ndowa Lale, has sounded it loud and clear that Management's intention was to offer parents an opportunity to understand the operational structure of the University. “I wish to make it abundantly clear that the Parents' Forum is not a platform for anybody to agitate for policy change or to serve as an alternative to the University administration. We will not allow the Forum to be used as an avenue to intercede on behalf of students who infringe on the University's extant policies. We will also not condone acts of gross misconduct by staff and students with the hope of lobbying for leniency through the Forum. Parents should trust us to make the right decisions in all administrative and academic matters—especially those relating to their wards,” the Vice-Chancellor told them. ...