Student loan: NELFUND postpones application for state varsities

The management of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, on Tuesday, announced a 14-day postponement of the application process for student loans for state institutions. According to a statement by the agency in Abuja, the development was due to “low data submissions.” NELFUND said the decision was necessitated by the failure of several state-owned institutions to […]

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They claimed that the campus medical staff failed in their duties, which they believe directly contributed to the tragic outcome. In response, Olasunkanmi Olajide, the Acting Head of the Directorate of Public Relations, in a statement, denied any culpability on the part of the medical staff. Olajide while confirming the student’s death attributed the unfortunate outcome to the actions of Ayodele’s friends, whom he accused of handling the situation unprofessionally. According to the statement titled “Tragic Loss of Ayodele Israel Ifeoluwa: FUNAAB’s Response and Actions,” Ayodele suffered a severe asthmatic attack while off-campus. Olajide said, “In an unprofessional attempt to help, his friends inserted a spoon into his mouth and poured water on him to resuscitate him. Subsequently, efforts were made to find a motorcycle (Okada) to transport him to the University Health Centre.” He noted that upon Ayodele’s arrival at the health center, medical staff, including doctors, a matron, and nurses, attended to him immediately. However, they determined that Ayodele had already passed away before reaching the health center and acknowledged that the outcome might have been different if an ambulance was called instead of resorting to an Okada for transportation. It was gathered that Prof. Babatunde Kehinde, the Vice-Chancellor of FUNAAB, personally met with Ayodele’s parents to express condolences and offer support. The university has also constituted a committee to thoroughly investigate the incident, aiming to determine the immediate and underlying causes and to understand the circumstances to prevent future occurrences.

Nigerian university professors are the lowest paid in the world, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Modibbo Adama University (MAU), Yola, has lamented. El-Maude Gambo Jibreel, the branch leader, made the disclosure at a press briefing in Yola on Thursday. He lamented, “Our members have been on the same salary for over 15 […]

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NGO trains Ekiti youths on tracking, reporting govt community projects

A non-governmental organisation, the Inspiration Care and Development Centre (ICDC), has trained no fewer than 30 youths to monitor and track government projects across the 16 local government areas of Ekiti State. The two-day training tagged’The F Fiscal Transparency Champions (FTCs) Capacity Building Workshop’brought together the selected youths in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, under the […]

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Student loan application portal opens May 24 — FG

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced May 24 as the official date for the opening of the portal for student loan applications. The Managing Director of NELFUND, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, disclosed this on Thursday in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Fund’s Media and Public Relations Lead, Nasir Ayitogo. […]

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Governing council: FG begs ASUU over strike threat

The acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Chris Maiyaki, said, on Wednesday, that the Federal Government was working to reconstitute the governing councils of universities. He said the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, had put in place a panel to work on the list. The NUC Executive Secretary said the councils would […]

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JAMB releases more UTME results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Tuesday, has released additional 36,540 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results, which were earlier withheld for further investigation. This was in addition to the 531 results released the previous week now bringing the total results released to 1,879,437. The board disclosed this in a statement it released on Tuesday […]

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