The crisis rocking the University of Benin, (UNIBEN) Ugbowo, Edo State, has taken a new twist as the local branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday issued management of the university a strike notice over the Thursday April 12 bloody attack on its members by the Students Union Government, SUG. The…
UNIBEN Announces Dates for Post-UTME, Direct Entry Screenings Despite Ongoing Strike by ASUU
The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, not withstanding, the University of Benin, (UNIBEN) Benin-City Edo State, has released dates for its Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME) and Direct Entry screenings for the 2022/2023 academic session. The university, in a notice by its Registrar, Ademola Bobola on Wednesday in Benin, said…
ASUU Strike: Protesting UNIBEN Students Send Strong Warning to FG, Lecturers
…Say ‘We Are Tired of Strikes, We Want to Graduate’ Students of the University of Benin on Wednesday morning trooped out of their campuses in their large numbers to solidarise with the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The students, who called on the federal government to meet the demands of…
Planned Strike: FG Determined to Cripple Varsity Education, says UNIBEN ASUU
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Benin, UNIBEN chapter, on Monday, observed a work-free day as directed by its national body, and warned that the federal government of Nigeria, by its inability to keep to agreements reached with the union, is determined to cripple university education in Nigeria. The union,…
Horror in Temple of God
22-year-old undergraduate deflowered, gang-raped and murdered in Church in Edo. A 22-year-old undergraduate of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, has been gruesomely murdered by unknown assailants inside a church hall in the Ikpoba Hill area of Benin City, Edo State. Omozuwa who had gone to the church to study ahead of reopening…
UNIBEN’s Second Female VC assumes Office
The inauguration ceremony of Lillian Imuetiyan Salami, professor of home economics and nutrition as the 10th vice-chancellor of the University of Benin came to an abrupt end Monday following an announcement that she had been invited by the state governor. No sooner a cultural dance by students of English and Literature studies finished their performance…
UNIBEN Student Shot Dead
There was mayhem at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Ugbowo Campus on Friday when unknown gunmen shot and killed Gbenedio Ejiroghene, a 300-level student of the Department of Chemistry. It was learnt that Ejiroghene, popularly known as “Cazito,” was taking part in a jeans carnival organised for final-year students of the Faculty of Physical Sciences,…
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