Researchers recently found strange alien-like human skulls more than 1,000 years old at a Mexican cemetery. “Cranial deformation has been used by different societies in the world as a ritual practice, or for distinction of status within a group or to ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo A clip from the video There is certainly not going to be an end to the controversies that emerge from Nigeria’s privately owned – especially Christian – Universities. And when it come to controversies one of the universities ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The University authorities of Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota in Ogun state, last Saturday expelled over 200 students for varied offences. According to informationnigeria.org; trouble started when the Chancellor of the institution, Bishop David Oyedepo visited the school chapel unannounced ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo With the sad news trends that have marred the Nigerian audience lately; this comes as a sweet escape. A Nigerian living in the United States of America has done the country proud with her appointment into the Sacramento ...Read More

By Fuad Yusuf The Social Science  Students Association (SOSSA), University of Calabar, is engulfed in another political tussle as the Ebri Edmond-led 2010/2011 dispensation ends. The fight is between two contenders aiming to succeed Ebri Edmond. The Ebri dispensation witnessed countless petitions ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola National Universities Commission, NUC, is keeping mum over the declaration by the House of Representatives that its withdrawal of operational licenses of seven private universities is null. Last Thursday, the House committee on Public Petitions declared that the NUC ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Citizens of Imo State have been jubilant as the Governor Rochas Okorocha government has fully enforced its free education policy. He has since extended his free education programme to tertiary institutions. For now, no Imo son or daughter will ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The University of Lagos has taken the 16th position on the African continent in the recent ranking of top 100 Universities and Colleges in Africa by the 4icu.org University Web Ranking. UNILAG came behind University of Nairobi and ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo In what has been a shocking investigative research- a Nigerian Senator has had his credentials put into huge question. His name is Senator Hope Uzodimma- who had, in an interview with a national newspaper, and on his Facebook page ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Imagine 80,000 of you qualified and gunning for less than 4,000 slots... Just imagine that out of all of you, more than 76,000 would be disqualified, despite being qualified! Well, that the condition at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, as well ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola First Lady with President News reaching us confirm that Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has appointed the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, as one of the seventeen new Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service. The ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Reaction from the registrar and indeed the hierarchy of the Fr. Edeh owned university has been one of shock and surprise after NUC had the operating licenses of Madonna University and its sister school- Caritas University alongside five ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo As the United States celebrated its Independence on July 4th, seven Nigerian Universities had their licenses suspended by the National Universities Commission (NUC)- and so, will not be admitting any fresh students in this academic year. Since then ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Mr Tourism Nigeria He may be only 23 years old, but he not only towers at two inches above 6 feet, an undergraduate of LAW from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN)  an actor, currently on a movie ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Cruise Nigeria has learnt that Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, announced the indefinite suspension of the conferment of honorary award on any person by authorities of Lagos State University, LASU, saying the award had been desecrated ...Read More

By Amadi Chisom Flip open your Oxford English Dictionary and look up these words; Genius, Aptitude, Flair. Whatever you find underneath these three different adjectives, paint a decent picture of Oderah ‘Dalahs’ Ogbodo. This young ‘information and communication technology’ student of the ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Cruise Nigeria has learnt that two families almost came to blows at the Lekan Ogunsola Memorial Morgue of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday as both relations lay claim to the same body. The dispute ...Read More

By Akuata Chijioke Osagie Olayinka Onobun was born in the late 80's, the last child in a family of five. He had his primary, secondary education in Lagos and briefly studied at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) before he dropped out ...Read More

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, sent a bill to the Senate and the House of Representatives seeking endorsement to rename the University of Lagos, UNILAG to Moshood Abiola University, Lagos. It would be recalled that Jonathan had in his Democracy Day broadcast ...Read More

By Chinelo Ude It was just a little over a year ago that I was witnessing history in the making at the premiere of the movie "Mystery of Birds;" a two-night movie premiere with tickets sold out for both nights that ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The institution name change drama has dragged on- even amid the horrific plane crash that killed everybody aboard the Dana Airline in the city of Lagos. Cruise Nigeria has learnt that some students of Moshood Abiola University, have ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The University of Ilorin invites candidates who have applied for admission into the undergraduate degree programmes of the University for the 2012/2013 academic session to upload the required information for the Screening Exercise between Friday 1st June and ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The University of Uyo has commenced her 2012/2013 post-utme screening exercise for candidates who made the University their 1st Choice in the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), and made a total score of 180 and above. The ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR 2012/2013 SCREENING EXERCISE FOR ADMISSIONS The University of Nigeria, Nsukka hereby invites candidates who made her either their first or second choice in the 2012 Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and scored 200 or ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo With UNILAG students- or MAU students as it is, protesting the name-change of their institution and even claiming that the Late MKO Abiola has been honoured enough, Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola disagreed with them. The governor yesterday urged ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Students of the University of Lagos have ,Tuesday morning, embarked on a protest against the renaming of the school by President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan had in a nationwide broadcast renamed the University of Lagos as Moshood Abiola University in ...Read More

Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger says he is not breeding anaconda snakes in his farm and does not have a university in Ghana. “I have no snakes in my farm and neither do I have a University in Ghana, the lies ...Read More

A commercial bus driver identified as Isaac Onaiwu has been allegedly beaten to death by soldiers from the Nigeria Army School of Supply and Transport (S&T) Ugbowo in Edo State. The late Onaiwu aged 48 died at the University of Benin ...Read More

Explosion yesterday  rocked the Administrative block of the Gombe State University, Gombe prompting a colossal destruction of both the building and many valuable items in the building. The block also houses the Senate, Council Chambers as well as the office of ...Read More

The protest staged yesterday by the  students of the Nigeria’s premier university – the University of Ibadan, to register their grievances and dissatisfaction over the epileptic power and water supply in the institution has entered its second day. Even the presence ...Read More

The Police University in Kaduna will commence academic activities in September 2012, the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, disclosed in Abeokuta on Friday. While addressing officers and men of the Ogun Police Command, Abubakar said the university had been ...Read More

Students of University of Abuja today (Wednesday) blocked the road outside the permanent site of the institution, protesting against the Federal Government’s suspension of four courses at their school. The institution is located on Airport Road, Abuja. The expressway is one of ...Read More