Day: December 4, 2020

How Prof Olufemi Peters emerged Vice Chancellor, Nigeria’s Open University

Gbenga Adeoti

More details have come up on how Olufemi A. Peters, a Professor of Chemistry, emerged as the newly elected Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Peters, 64, beat six other candidates to clinch the coveted seat in a keenly contested race at the nation’s only single-mode Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institution. He is to take over the reins from the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, whose five-year single tenure elapses on 10th February, 2021. Professor Peters, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, boasts an impressive…

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Nigeria Students Beg Buhari, Varsity Lecturers To Close Ranks, End Strike

Precious Ibekwe

  Some students at the Nigerian Universities have passionately appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider their future by closing ranks and end the strike which has kept them at home since March 2020. They begged the lecturers’ union, ASUU, to resume work in their various institutions. Those who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the suspension of the prolonged strike. The students said that they were tired and frustrated…

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Nigeria embargoes Diaspora remittance’s withdrawal in Naira

Aliyu Aliyu

  . Remittances now to be withdrawn in dollars – CBN The Nigeria’s apex bank, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), had announced  a new policy initiative, which would help to boost remittance inflows and foster an environment of faster, cheaper, and more convenient flow of remittances back to the country. The new policy which was unveiled by the Apex Bank on Monday, will become effective from Friday, 4th December, 2020. CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele who made the announcement while addressing stakeholders  in Abuja on Thursday said the new policy…

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