For the second consecutive year, Covenant University, a private institution in Ota, Ogun State, has emerged as Nigeria’s best university, according to the 2025 world university rankings by the Times Higher Education (THE). Covenant is also the only Nigerian university that made the top 1,000 list of world universities. The number of Nigerian universities in … Read more
The University of Ibadan, Oyo State, has released cut-off marks for the 2024/2025 admission exercise. All Nigerian universities had unanimously agreed that no university would admit candidates with less than 140 points in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) administered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The decision was taken at the policy … Read more
The Chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Ibadan, Bisi Akande, has asked the university to channel his allowances and entitlements into an endowment fund for undergraduate students in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Mr Akande made the request in a 21 August letter addressed to the university registrar and secretary to the … Read more
Key actors in the academia and the private sector have commended Omoniyi Ibietan for his efforts at establishing how political conversations on various platforms, especially the social media, influence voters’ behaviour and ultimately impact election outcomes in Nigeria. At the book reading and further reviews of Mr Ibietan’s ‘Cyber Politics: Social Media, Social Demography and … Read more
The University of Ibadan (UI) has awarded Bachelor’s Degree to popular Fuji icon, Saheed Osupa, and other students who satisfied its graduation criteria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the second day of the 2023 Convocation Ceremony of the institution had 1,590 first degree graduands from eight faculties. The faculties included those of … Read more
