The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has urged Nigerian youths to seek demonstrable skills as a means of survival, warning that very soon university degrees will no longer be the sole guarantors of jobs. Oloyede said this on Thursday at Kwara State University, Malete, while delivering the convocation…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday said candidates for its Direct Entry examination would from 2024 undertake cognitive and verbal reasoning tests. The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, reiterated this during a virtual meeting with Commissioners of Education of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. A special bulletin published…
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR BREAK FOR ALL STUDENTS I am directed to inform all Students that the Polytechnic Management has approved Christmas and New Year Break. The break is to commence on Friday, 22nd December, 2023 and the students are to resume on Tuesday, 2nd January, 2024.The Management wishes all, a Merry Christmas and Prosperous…
The approval for the exemption was given by the Federal Executive Council at its meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa Abuja. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents alongside other ministers on the outcome of the FEC meeting, and said this takes immediate effect. According to him,…
Kwara State Executive Council has approved the setting up of a teaching hospital to support the training of medical students and related professionals by the Kwara State University, a major step that involves huge facility upgrades at the General Hospital Ilorin (GHI) which has been adopted for the purpose as well as legislations to guide…
I am directed to inform all returning and newly admitted students that the Polytechnic Authority has decided that the Portal for student registration will be closed effective from Friday, 15th December, 2023 at 12am. Consequently, all affected students are hereby enjoined to ensure that they complete their registration exercise on or before the stipulated date…
Kwara State University, Malete, has produced 16,315 graduates for the 10th and 11th combined convocation ceremony for the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 academic sessions. There are 183 first-class graduates for the combined convocation ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, announced at a press conference held at the main campus of the institution on Tuesday. For the…
The University Senate, at its 59th Statutory Meeting considered the Academic Calendar for the 2023/2024 Academic Session and approved that academic activities should terminate as scheduled on Friday, 22nd December 2023, and continue on Monday, 22nd January 2024. However, administrative and all essential services would continue to be available in line with best practices. Nigeria’s…
I write to inform all fresh students that the sixteenth (16th) matriculation Ceremony of the University has been fixed for Thursday, 21st December, 2023 at 12noon in all Campuses. All Fresh Students are to pay a sum of five thousand (N5,000.00) each into the University Account. Such payment should be made via electronic plat form/…
LECTURE FREE WEEK FOR CONVOCATION ACTIVITIES In view of the activities to celebrate the Combined 10th and 11th Convocation Ceremony, Management has approved that all lectures be suspended with effect from Tuesday, December 12, 2023. This is to allow both staff and students to participate fully in the weeklong activities. Lectures are to resume fully…
