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3,963 teachers who sat for the Professional Qualifying Examination for teachers across the country, organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), failed   The November 2023 diet of the qualifying exam started on November 23, 2023, and ended on November 25, 2023.   The examination was conducted to test …

Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, has decried the erroneous Kaduna bombing incident.  Residents of Tudun Biri Village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna were celebrating Maulud Nabbiy (Prophet Muhammad’s birthday) when the Nigerian Army erroneously dropped bombs in their midst, killing over 120 …

Nigeria’s first Emeritus Professor, Umaru Shehu, has died at the age of 97.   This was announced in a statement by Dr Bulama Gubio, the Secretary of the Borno Elders Forum on Monday, October 2, in Maiduguri.   Gubio said that Shehu, a distinguished Professor of Medicine, died in the …

Ononokpono said Sambo had been the Head of Community Medicine and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Medicine, both roles at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Prof. Mohammed Sambo, Director-General, National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has been inducted into the United Kingdom’s Faculty of Public Health as a Fellow Through Distinction.

 Abia state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has accused Prof Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti, the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the just-concluded March 18 governorship election in the state of being unfair to all parties that participated in the poll.   In an interview with Channels TV on Monday …

Remember when we used to hear professors and scientists talk about how math was the universal language of the universe? It used to be that mathematics was the same regardless of your socioeconomic background, native language, or hell, even the time in history you were born. It’s what people much …

The Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, [PDP] for the 2023 March 11 governorship election in Abia State, Prof. Uchenna Ikonne is dead.   The son of the deceased politician disclosed this in a statement released this afternoon January 25.   The statement read;   “I regret to announce …

Folasade Ogunsola, a professor of clinical microbiology, has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).   Her appointment was announced by the UNILAG governing council on Friday, October 7, 2022.    She is the first female vice-chancellor of the school in 60 years and the 13th …

Former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a “lazy and uncaring Commander-in-Chief”.   Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday July 27, Odinkalu decried the level of insecurity in the country, especially the renewed attacks by terrorists in recent …