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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Alhaji Saidu Isa, Pro-Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), has said that the university has assumed the status of a debtor institution following its recent financial constraints. Isa made the statement on Saturday in Malete, Ilorin, during the 5th convocation ceremony of the university. He said that the university had in the last two years, depended on its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to pay staff salaries and offset some recurrent expenditure. The Pro-Chancellor, who is also the Chairman of the university`s council, appealed to the state government to revert to status quo by giving monthly subvention to the university to augment its IGR. ”This is because our IGR has been overstretched beyond capacity and it is now difficult to pay salaries. ”The management, having found no alternative, has resorted to going cap-in-hand to borrow from banks in other to meet some obligations,’’ he said. Isa disclosed that the loans so far taken by management was ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Alhaji Saidu Isa, Pro-Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), has said that the university has assumed the status of a debtor institution following its recent financial constraints. Isa made the statement on Saturday in Malete, Ilorin, during the 5th convocation ceremony of the university. He said that the university had in the last two years, depended on its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to pay staff salaries and offset some recurrent expenditure. The Pro-Chancellor, who is also the Chairman of the university`s council, appealed to the state government to revert to status quo by giving monthly subvention to the university to augment its IGR. ”This is because our IGR has been overstretched beyond capacity and it is now difficult to pay salaries. ”The management, having found no alternative, has resorted to going cap-in-hand to borrow from banks in other to meet some obligations,’’ he said. Isa disclosed that the loans so far taken by management was ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigerian Law School has released summary of the final examination results conducted from April 22 to 28. The Director-General, Nigerian Law School, Mr Olarewaju Onadeko, (SAN), made this known in a statement on Saturday in Bwari, FCT. He said that 2, 125 students participated at the examinations while 1,393 were successful. According to him, candidates with conditional Pass are 196 while 596 failed. A further breakdown of the results showed that candidates with Pass accounted for 65.6 per cent, those with conditional Pass represented 6. 4 per cent, while those who failed were 28 per cent. Onadeko said that the ‘Call to the Bar’ ceremony for the successful candidates will hold on July 13 in Abuja. The post Nigerian law school results: Out of 2,125 participants 1,393 were successful appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rMi3iv

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Police Command in Borno on Thursday confirmed the killing of 13 persons after Wednesdays multiple attack in Maiduguri. Mr Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police in the state, disclosed this in Maiduguri at a news conference on the attack. He said “suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked Alidawari Village near Jiddari Polo area in Maiduguri on Wednesday. “The suspected terrorists entered the village through Molai general area, an outskirt of Maiduguri. “They were sporadically firing Anti Aircraft guns into and across Jiddari Polo near the Federal High Court.” Chukwu said the attackers set ablaze some houses in the village. “They set fire on some houses and makeshift tents in the neighborhood. “However, the police, comprising the Special Anti Robbery Squad (FSARS) and others were swiftly deployed to the scene to engage the attackers.’’ Chukwu said that the military mobilised and repelled the attack. He added that “the military massively mobilised an...

http://ift.tt/2pcJnCu Former US President Barack Obama stands next to a map that shows the design of the Obama Presidential Center as Architect Dina Griffin (L) speaks about the progress of the center during a community event at the South Shore Cultural Center on May 3, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The Obama Presidential Center will be constructed in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side Woodlawn neighborhood. / AFP PHOTO / Joshua LOTT Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the vision for his presidential library in Chicago, a modern, $500 million project he hopes will be a training ground for future leaders housed in the city that launched his career. Speaking on the city’s south side near the center’s future site, the former President Obama revealed drawings and a 3-D rendering of a three-structure complex with a public plaza and surrounding park land near the shores of Lake Michigan. The site is slated to be upwards of 225,000 square feet in size and house a library, museum and f...

http://ift.tt/2p13sQh R-L: Senate President Bukola Saraki and majority leader of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan The Senate on Thursday, failed to lay the 2017 Appropriation Bill in plenary, contrary to its promise to Nigerians that the bill would be passed before Friday. The tenure of the 2016 Appropriation Act would end on Friday. Against expectations, the Leader of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, moved a motion for the bill to be stepped down till Tuesday. The motion was seconded by Deputy Minority Leader, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha. Lawan said that he had been informed that the budget would be ready and laid on Tuesday and therefore, urged the lawmakers to wait until that day to have the report from the Appropriation Committee. In his remarks, Deputy President of the Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, who presided at the plenary, explained that the development was to enable both chambers of the National Assembly to complete the budget harmonisation. He said that though the senate was billed to re...

http://ift.tt/2p8ETNo European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May was a "tough lady", after reports of a disastrous Brexit dinner between the pair. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERICK FLORIN European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May was a “tough lady”, after reports of a disastrous Brexit dinner between the pair. Juncker also warned Britain against threatening to walk out of the talks on its exit from the European Union over a row about the bill it must pay. May had boasted on Tuesday that she would be a “bloody difficult woman” in the negotiations — a description once used by a former colleague. “I deeply respect the British PM, I like her as a person,” Juncker said at a press conference in Brussels. “I have noted that she is a tough lady so this is not for the future, this is real-time description,” he said alongside Estonia’s prime minister, whose country wi...