‘We want to create more employments with digital farms’

A frontline real estate investor and the Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Building Investment, Mr. Lanre Howells, has said the reason behind their digital farm estate is to bridge the gap between large scale farmers and small scale farmers and also to create more employment opportunities for Nigeria’s teaming youths. The post ‘We want to create more employments with digital farms

Research, Innovation and Enterprise Are Key To National Development

Research, Innovation and Enterprise underline the progress and development of any nation as well as determine its international competitiveness, Executive Secretary of national Universities commission (NUC), Prof Julius A. Okojie, OON, has said in a public lecture titled, ‘Embracing Reforms that Enhance Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nigerian Universities, delivered at the University of Benin, on Monday, 4 July, 2016, Professor Okojie said Nigeria required a good policy framework and relevant research to address its developmental needs.

The Executive Secretary charged Nigerian Universities to leverage on ICT to bridge the gaps in research and learning as well as support ongoing efforts towards the establishment of National Science Plan and National Science Foundation. 

MediECO Spatial Concepts 2016

Africa!!! A continent with some 1.111billion individuals, living in cities and rapidly developing rural communities, has as its populace, teams of highly valued professionals using their skills and expertise in providing shelters for all our needs

Compared to their foreign counterparts - as is same with many other professions in Africa - the world seem to have little knowledge or value for their highly esteemed skills and professionalism put into use in making Africa a continent that's not just livable, but also pleasurable.

To this course, MediECO SPATIAL CONCEPTS is poised to invite all occupants of every building in Africa, Building and Financial Service Providers, Students and Tutors of Architecture and the Built Environment, Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, and Architects, to ARCHITECTURAL EXPEDITION, a platform set up to let you raise conversations, join conversations, share photos of places and buildings you work on or love, get inspired and help awaken the world to recognise and value Africa's rich architectural heritage, as we explore Africa's amazingly built environment.

To join, click on the link or follow our pages with the usernames below;
Blog URL: www.archexpedition.org
Facebook: m.me/archexpedition, @archexpedition
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Do not hesitate to invite others also to do same. With our participation, Africa's ever growing sustainable built environment would be admired the world over.

ICT FOR CHANGE

Good News!

Nigeria 2000 Youth ICT Training.

The Federal Government of Nigeria in partnership with Huawei has organized #ICTForCHANGE Empowerment Programme designed to train 2000 young graduates in ICT and related fields.

As part of the Federal Government Youth & Student Development Programme, This is designed for University/Polytechnic Graduates of Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science, ICT, Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics and other ICT related courses.

All applicants must be between 18 – 30 years.

Venue: Huawei Training Centers in Abuja & Lagos.

Training Courses Cover:

1. ICT Fundamentals
2. Huawei Certified Datacom Associate (HCDA) certification
3. Telecoms Power
4. BTS and Mircrowave Installation

Training is FREE.

Please Read more and apply here >>> www.ictforchange.gov.ng

Registration closes June 15, 2016.

NCC Boss @ NUC, Tours NgREN

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, on Friday, 13 May, 2016, paid a visit to his counterpart, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius A. Okojie, OON, and the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN) facilities, to see firsthand the NgREN project, which has increased opportunities for collaborative research amongst Nigerian universities and other RENs around the world. The visit afforded the NCC Boss the opportunity to identify areas of mutual collaboration with the NUC, in order to join forces together in deploying critical infrastructure to improve resource sharing among institutions.

UNIABUJA expels 54 students for examination misconduct

Speaking to nucbulletin.blogspot.com, the Deputy Registrar (Information) of the institution, Mr. Waziri Garba, said that the decision to expel the students was endorse by the Senate of the University.

It added that the decision followed the recommendations by the central examination misconduct committee the senate set up earlier to investigate the allegations of examination malpractices against the students.

The statement showed that 21 of the expelled students were from the Faculty of Social Science, 16 from Science, 11 from Education while 3 students each were expelled from the Faculties of Law and Management Sciences.

The University, according to the statement, also approved the rustication of 19 students from the institution spanning various academic periods.

The statement said that 14 of the students were rusticated for one academic session while five were rusticated for one semester and to carry over their courses.

The statement reads: “Of those rusticated, seven were from the Faculty of Arts, four from Social Science, three each from the Faculties of Science and Education and two from the Faculty of Management Sciences.”

MAINONE to Leverage on NgREN to Improve Internet Access in Varsities

A delegation from MAINONE International, led by the Chief Executive officer, Mrs Funke Opeke, on Wednesday, 4 May, 2016, paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary, national Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius A. Okojie, OON, to seek for ways to leverage on the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN) to improve on the INTERNET services of its clients in the Universities.

Receiving the delegation, Professor Okojie, who was represented by the Deputy Executive Secretary (DES) Professor Chinedu Mafiana, briefed it on the roles, functions and responsibilities of Nuc in the Nigerian University System (NUS). He stated that the major challenges confronting the system were Access and Quality, but that the commission was doing its best to address them, through inspection, monitoring, and other regulatory activities.