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The Truth About Making Good Grades. Making good grades is up to you most times. You are what you claim, make a decision of standing out and walk towards it on daily basis. Yes I mean DAILY basis. It is never an easy thing. What makes you think that people who make parallel As are better than you is that they put in extraordinary efforts and commitment into their academics and you don't or maybe you but you are not consistent in doing so.  Check out the following steps for maintaining good grades. 1.Decide as early as possible. If you make a firm decision to make it, you will definitely put in your best to achieve your goal. 2.Point out your main purpose of being in school and keep that at the back of your mind. Some students truly don't know their reason of leaving their homes to be in a school. That is why many waste their school years on the wrong things. 3. Attend your lectures.  4. Note the Lecturer's teachings in class. Remember to note also where he or s...

The general public is hereby informed that Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye has introduced an online portal for transcript services with effect from 10th January, 2019. This new system will enable OOU graduates book for transcripts from anywhere in the world and also change the way our Institution communicate and exchange information globally. The OOU “e-transcript”, as it is branded, can be accessible on the university website  https://etranscript.oouagoiwoye.edu.ng . Users are expected to create a profile with their matriculation numbers as well as email addresses after which they will be requested to supply details of the Institution or Organization to which they want the University to send the transcripts. With this new service, any graduate of OOU can get his/her transcripts through the transcript portal by applying online, pay using any of the payment options, receive status alerts on the request, and get a student copy of the  transcripts.Hard copi...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has mapped out plans to start using Biometric System during Community Development Service (CDS) meetings. An NYSC official in Lagos revealed this and that it is important to check mate 'ghost corpers'. During CDS meetings, the biometric thumb printing will be done weekly, any corps member that miss this up to twice in a month is automatically disqualified for clearance for that month.

The Vice Chancellor, Professor Bernard A. Eromosele, of Samuel Adegboyega University (SAU), Ogwa, Rivers State, on behalf of the Governing Council, Management, Senate, Staff and Students invites the general public to its 2018/2019 academic session matriculation ceremony. SAU Matriculation Ceremony Schedule. The Samuel Adegboyega University (SAU) 2018/2019 Matriculation Ceremony for the Freshers is scheduled to hold as follows: Date:  Friday, 25th January, 2019 Venue : Pastor John Aluko Babatope Hall Time : 10:00 am Prompt

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill vacancies in the indicated Academic Departments of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Academic Staff Vacancies POSITIONS SALARY SCALE i) Professor – CONUASS 7 ii) Reader – CONUASS 6 iii) Senior Lecturer – CONUASS 5 iv) Lecturer I – CONUASS 4 v) Lecturer II – CONUASS 3 vi) Assistant Lecturer – CONUASS 2 The vacancies are available in the following Schools and Departments: A) School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) Departments: i) Computer Science ii) Information Technology iii) Cyber security iv) Forensic Science v) Software Engineering B) School of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SEET) i) Mechatronics Engineering C) School of Environmental Sciences (SOES) Departments: i) Architecture ii) Quantity Surveying ii) Urban and Regional Planning iii) Surveying & Geoinformatics D) School of Health Technology (SOHT) Departments: i) Dental Technology ii) Prosthetics...

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Maj.- Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, has cautioned corps members to maintain a strategic distance from any type of race misbehavior as anybody got will be arraigned.  Kazaure gave the notice in Ibadan on Tuesday amid his support and sensitisation visit to Oyo State in regard of the pending races.  The chief general cautioned the corps members not to acknowledge any type of affectation, including cash from lawmakers, outsiders and individuals from people in general.  He prompted them to dependably think about their condition and to be security-cognizant, saying that corps individuals taking an interest in race obligations must be in their NYSC uniform.  "Your Identity cards must be on you; guarantee your telephones are revived with enough broadcast appointment; be outfitted with pocket notes; have the telephone quantities of your neighborhood government overseers and Divisional Police Off...

The Board of Trustees of the Abimbola Aina Omololu-Mulele Annual Lecture in Obstetrics and Gynaecology is desirous to encourage research and create greater awareness of the goals and objectives of the Abimbola Aina Omololu-Mulele Annual Lecture Endowment. Further to this, the Board calls for Entries for Research Grant Award Competition in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for the 2019 Edition. Omololu-Mulele Research Grant Award Competition Rules and Criteria. General The Board of Trustees of the Abimbola Aina Omololu-Mulele Annual Lecture Endowment in Obstetrics and Gynaecology intends to award a  limited  number of grants yearly to a maximum sum of Three Million Naira (₦3,000,000.00). The Fund is designed for the exclusive use of the applicant’s research. However, the main body of work must be undertaken by the applicant while the non-essential parts may be carried out by other parties. The Trustees main research interest will vary from year to year and this wil...

The Federal Government said it has discharged N163 billion to the Universities from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund however striking scholastics are slowing down in canceling their strike. Representative Chris Ngige, Minister of Labor and Employment, said this while tending to newsmen after a shut entryway reconciliatory meeting with pioneers of Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reviews that the striking instructors set out on a strike on November 5, 2018, to squeeze home their requests. ASUU requests incorporated a few regions of comprehension in the usage of the Memorandum of Action concurred in 2017. A portion of these regions incorporate deficiency in pay rates of some Federal Universities' laborers and teachers, earned remittances, revitalisation extends that were a piece of the 2009 assention, among others. As indicated by Ngige, "today, we (FG) have consented to finance revitalisation. "Government has...

The Non-Academic Staff Union of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, on Tuesday went on a peaceful protest over unpaid salary arrears. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protest disturbed both academic and administrative activities on the institution’s campus as the entrance gates were closed. A NAN correspondent, who kept an eye on  the development, also reports that there was traffic snarl in front of the institution on the Sango – Eleyele road as workers, students and visitors were locked out by the striking union. The Chairman of the union, Ibrahim Akande, said NASU had embarked on indefinite industrial action since Jan. 14 and had yet to receive the attention of the school’s management and the government. “We are agitating for eight months salary arrears owed us by the government since 2017. “We have held series of meeting with the management and Oyo State Government all to no avail. “So we are agitating for our right; we have shut down the ins...

Since the Academic Staff Union of Universities started its across the nation strike on November 5, 2018, no less than six colleges have hauled out of it and opened their ways to students. At the point when our journalist reached the ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, for his response to the improvement and the apparent disunity in the association's positions, he said the establishments that hauled out of the strike because of weight from their bad habit chancellors, or overseeing committees, would lament their activities later on.  Ogunyemi stated, "Those colleges saw as hauling out are surely not against what we are requesting. Our individuals are in foundations like the Obafemi Awolowo University, which chose to neutralize us and intentionally attacked our endeavors to reposition the Universities. "The individuals who said they don't concur with us are not against the assets for revitalisation that we are requesting. They are not against scho...

The Federal Government has initiated the gathering with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the waiting strike.  Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labor and Employment, is in participation alongside the striking speakers.  The Minister says he is concerned over the deferral in suspending the strike after the last gathering where a few assets were discharged by the Federal Government to pay rates setbacks.  In any case, the President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi said that they need the Federal government to take care of business this time around, particularly issues spinning around University rejuvenation so as to guarantee that moves on from Nigeria Universities can be glad for their testaments.  ASUU started the across the country strike in November after a gathering of its national initiative at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, the Ondo State capital.  The mechanical activity was to dissent the poor subsidizing of Ni...

Three representatives of the University of Lagos on Monday told an Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court how a supposed attacker, John Otema, assaulted understudies on grounds.  The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Otema, a Unilag former student, is confronting three tallies of assault and attack occasioning hurt under the steady gaze of the court.  He, nonetheless, denied carrying out the offenses which contradict Sections 173 and 260(1)(2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.  The Unilag workers who affirmed amid Monday's procedures incorporate Mr. Ayodeji Ajayi, an individual from the Crime Section, Unilag Security Unit, who is additionally the Investigating Security Officer for the situation.  The others are Dr. Adedoyin Solola from the University of Lagos Medical School; and Dr. Aishat Bello of the Unilag Medical Center.  Ajayi, who gave proof in-boss on December 11, 2018, was interviewed by Mr. Fred Onyeka, Ote...