The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, through its Corporate Social Responsibility arm, the UBA Foundation, continued on its quest to educate and empower African youths as it visited Our Lady of Mercy Girls Secondary School in Nairobi to donate over 500 copies of the book The Fishermen(by Chigozie Obioma), under the UBA Foundation’s Read […]
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The outspoken governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday boasted that all his children are studying in the country. According to Lere Olayinka, spokesman of the governor, Fayose said this at Covenant University, Ota, Ogun state, while attending the convocation ceremony of Ayorogbayimika, his son. The governor said the standard of education in the county will […]
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The West African Examination Council (WAEC) says a total of 923,486 candidates, out of 1,559,162 who sat for the 2017 West African Senior School Certificate Examination obtained credit passes in Mathematics and English. The figure, which represents 59.22 per cent, is an improvement on the percentage of school candidates who obtained credit passes in Mathematics […]
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On Tuesday July 4th, 2017, The UBA Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, continued on its quest to educate and empower African youths as it visited the Accra High School in Ghana. UBA Foundation’s Read Africa Initiative was launched in 2011 and has been changing the lives […]
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will begin the sale of the 2017 Direct Entry forms and registration of foreign candidates on July 10. JAMB’s Head of Public Relations Fabian Benjamin made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT. Benjamin said the process of registration for […]
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The National Universities Commission (NUC), on Monday, approved the conversion of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic to Moshood Abiola University of Technology. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Abubakar Rasheed, announced the approval while receiving the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun. Recall that the Ogun House of Assembly on Tuesday January 31st, passed a bill upgrading Moshood […]
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It was a day of joy for 50 medical students of the Osun State University and their parents at the weekend as they ended their medical studies at the V.N Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. One of the new medical doctors, Oyeleye Lateefah Abiola, was named by the Vice-President for Research and Education of […]
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In pursuance of its mission to uplift the lives of the communities in which the United bank for Africa (Plc) operates, UBA Foundation’s initiative, Read Africa is visiting schools in African countries to encourage young children embrace the culture of reading. Read Africa is an initiative of UBA Foundation geared at rekindling the dwindling reading […]
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It is understood that the Nigerian Senate will intervene in the purported move to hike tuition fees in 38 federal universities. Senator Barau Jibrin, who is chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, said the upper parliament would invite the vice chancellors of the affected universities. He disapproved the proposed increase while accusing government-owned […]
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Ace Nigerian musician, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as ‘Wizkid’ has won the BET award for the Best International Act category. The singer was announced the winner on Saturday in Los Angeles, US. Wizkid was nominated for the 2017 BET Awards alongside three Nigerian artistes — Davido, Mr Eazi and Tekno. The quartet was nominated alongside […]
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