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  By Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto The Sokoto state University authorities have approved the promotion of five academic staff to the rank of professor. Also promoted are three lecturers to the rank of Senior lecturers according to a statement by the univeristy’s PRO, Mr Zayyanu Shehu. The Governing Council of the …

Barely one month after the Federal Executive Council has approved the establishment of Twelve Privates Universities in the Country, one of the approved in Sokoto North-West University has been presented with go ahead licence for the commencement of academic activities.   In a statement Signed  Bashar Abubakar S.A New Media …

D I S C L A I M E R !! The attention of Zazzau Emirate Council has been drawn to a purpoted news going round in the Social Media claiming the establishment of a new University “MALLAWA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, ZARIA” that the Emirate and His Highness the Emir of …

      … His performance exceptional, says varsity Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was on Sunday conferred with Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LLD), honoris causa by Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State. The University said Zulum was honoured for his “exceptional” performance since becoming …

  In an act of mindless evil and sheer wickedness, the armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students. The armed bandits on Tuesday night kidnapped an unspecified number of students at the institution located at Kasarami village off Kaduna-Abuja Road in …

  –One varsity staff member killed -Unspecified number of students kidnapped   Last night, the Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs received distress calls of an attack by armed bandits on the Greenfield Univerity, situated at Kasarami, off the Kaduna-Abuja Road in Chikun LGA.   Troops of Operation Thunder …

Danfodiyo Varsity,Sokoto, denies death of 2 female students as a result of hostel inferno  By Our Special Correspondent  The Management of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, has refuted a story insinuating the death of two female students, as a result of a fire incident at the Block ‘”M”, Female Hostel, …

Tambuwal Upgrades Shagari College of Education To University, Retains Name   From Mohammed Salisu in Sokoto As it marks 50 years of its existence on Monday, the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto will soon become a University of Education that will retain the name of the former President Shehu …

The Aliyu Magatakarda Foundation has met all the extant requirements for the establishment of a Premier pioneer private University in Sokoto, NorthWest University. The Leader of the Foundarion, who also doubles as the Senator representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, had at a  recent epoch-making ceremony held …