The Vice Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Prof. (Alhaji) Mala Mohammed Daura in a media chat with journalist over the weekend disclosed that there will be no room for students who appoint themselves as permanent ambassadors of faculties, and would not want to graduate, stressing that the university has innovated a new and dynamic strategy to handle professional and permanent students in the institution.

He pointed out that the university has identified among other things, several students who claim permanent admission and are not willing to graduate, he further concluded that the management would no longer allow such students to stay beyond their constitutional academic period as prescribed in the rules and regulations of the university. the VC, whose tenure is still up to the minute, has resolved to enforce rules and regulations guiding studentship even as he maintained that the move was designed to sanitize the system.

He also noted with kin interest that the management has overtime, tolerated this behavior of recycling students by allowing them to move from one department/faculty to the other in Unimaid.

“This means that when a student is admitted, he or she must have a maximum period for graduation. If such student could not graduate within the specified time for the course, the student can only be allowed to only stay for two years more, the law says if your course is four years, the maximum year you can stay is six and if you do not finish up the programme, you will be shown the way out, that is the situation now and there is no permanent student again,” – Prof Daura.

Prof. Daura also noted that the institution which was initially established to address the problems of tetiary education for students in the North Eastern states has fulfilled its mandate but noted that the vision of its founding fathers has been manipulated over time.

The VC, stated that the management is ready to make sure those students who are not ready to graduate give way for the serious ones because UNIMAID is one of the six universities selected for special intervention project by the Federal Government, as such the university will not afford to loose such an opportunity, and once these projects are executed successfully in the six universities in the country, they will have similar modern equipments to compete with any international standard, and will not need to travel out for any analysis. The project is being handled by Education Trust Fund of Nigeria, ETF.

The director general of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ms Arunma Oteh was in Sokoto, the city of the caliphate to have a general public lecture and to have an interactive session with the students of Business Administration, Accounting, Law and Economics of the Usmanu Danfodiyo university sokoto.

Ms Arunma Oteh enters the capital market with the desire to make history and in order to make difference, she believes there is an urgent need to reinvigorate the capital market. To drive home the seriousness of her passion, she is using the two edged sword viz: launching of the capital market club in secondary schools and at the same time campaigning for the use of the capital market as an alternative source of funding, Sokoto State as the rallying point for the programme.

She spoke with the students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University extensively on the benefits of savings, especially using the stock market as the mode of doing it, highlighting what it means to the development of our economy. She was able to relate with the students, and the session was an interactive one, students asked different questions like how to become an investor and how to protect oneself from the volatile and unpredictable market that fluctuates all the time. She and her entourage gave advice and guideline on the process of getting into the stock market.

At the end of the interactive session, free T-shirts and Caps were promised and given to students who attended the session which lasted for about 2 hours.  Important personalities who are present at the occasion include the Dean of Students affairs, the Dean of the faculty of Management Sciences, Head Of Department of Business Administration, Head Of Department of Accounting, President of Business Administration Students, President of Accounting Students, President of Law Students, President of Public Administration Students, Secretary General of Economics Students and the Financial Secretary of th Students Union Government of the school were all present at the occasion.

At the end of the session students comments that such a session is an opportunity for learning from the professional exactly what is going on in the real world. Some were of the view that what they have learnt is a knowledge that money cannot buy, and they were grateful for the gesture of the SEC’s DG.

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Olaiya Balogun, has mandated security personnel of the Student Affairs Unit of the institution to ‘arrest’ any student, who dresses indecently.

The offending students will not just be arrested, they will be made to face tough sanctions to deter them from such vices.

Addressing the 3, 137 fresh students of the university during their matriculation ceremony in the school in Abeokuta on Thursday, Balogun said the directive applied to any form of indecent dressing in the halls of residence in the university.

The vice-chancellor said, “Once you have been weighed on the balance of character and you are found wanting, there is no chance for you to graduate, no convocation. Apart from the two units which have been empowered to accost and apprehend either male or female students, who dress indecently, this is where the students’ union government should flex some of its muscles.

“We nurture future leaders here; and on that note, what you cannot wear in the presence of your parents, you will not be allowed to put them on here. Let me also tell you that the days of academic pretenders are numbered.”

The VC disclosed that apart from passing the University Matriculation Examination and the post-UTME test, the university had constituted a screening committee, consisting of psychologists, criminologists and security agencies to sift the students before their admission.

He said, “Having been tested and proven reliable, I wish to state categorically, that the screening exercise has come to stay in UNAAB and therefore, the university will not rely only on JAMB and post-UTME qualification for admissions.

“UNAAB has designed the screening exercise to become part of our admission process, so that we can identify and stop negative and unwholesome characters from corrupting the future leaders being nurtured in UNAAB.”

Balogun said less than 20 per cent of the 11,735 candidates, who chose UNAAB as their first and second choices in their application, were offered admission, but reminded the fresh students that only students with sound character would graduate from the university.

He promised that the school would continually improve its facilities, calling on the matriculating students to call him on his mobile telephone when there was an urgent matter requiring the attention of the management.

The   increase in  examination  malpractices  has  become a source of concern for  the National Business  and  Technical  Examinations  Board (NABTEB), Registrar  of  NABTEB  Professor David  Awanbor  has said.Addressing newsmen yesterday in  Benin, Edo State, Prof. Awanbor lamented that  examination  malpractices  had  continued  despite  all  the  laws  and  decrees  enacted  to  curb it.
He  said  he  was  however  delighted that NABTEB  had  not  only  broken  the  jinx  of  unresolved  examination  malpractice  cases in courts,  but  had  also  set  the  pace  in  the  quest  for  diligent  prosecution  of  offenders.
“Permit  me  to  say  with  all  sense  of  humility  that  NABTEB  is  the  first  examination  body  to  diligently  pursue  the  case  of  examination  cheats  from  the  points  of  arrest  to  prison  sentence”, he said.
He cited  the  recent  judgment  delivered  by  Justice  I.N Buba  of  the  Federal  High  Court,  Lafia  in  Nassarawa  State,  where  one  Patrick Ogyoko, 68,  a  secondary  school  teacher  appointed  by  NABTEB  as  supervisor  and  James  S.  Abiola  also  a  teacher  appointed  as  invigilator  were  found  guilty  and  sentenced  to  three  years  imprisonment  on  each  of  the  three  count  charge.
Awanbor  assured  that  in  line  with  the  new  education  roadmap, the  examination  body  would  continue  to  sustain  its  zero  tolerance  for  examination  malpractice.