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2020 African Excellence Full Tuition Scholarships For African Students At University of Glasgow - UK

Are you an International Student? Are you willing to pursue a degree program in UK?

The University of Glasgow is offering 8 scholarships to Interested students who are looking at acquiring a degree program at the Institution. Applicants will be : automatically assessed for ascholarship based on academic merit.

Application Deadline: 1st April 2020.

Eligible Countries: Africa

To Be Taken At: UK

Type: Postgraduate

Value Of Awards: Full fee waiver

Number Of Awards: 8

Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must;

be resident in Africa at time of applying

have completed a first degree in Africa

hold a conditional or unconditional offer of a place for a full-time postgraduate taught programme

demonstrate academic excellence and achieve grades equivalent to a degree equivalent to a UK 1st Class Hons or better

Application Process: To apply for this scholarship, please submit a 500 word personal statement to scholarships@glasgow.ac.uk by 01 April 2020.

Your personal statement must include:

your full name, applicant number and clearly state that you are applying for the University of Glasgow African Excellence Fee Waiver

why you have selected the programme at the University of Glasgow

why you merit the funded place (e.g academic/personal achievement)

how you will benefit from it (e.g. employment prospects, financial relief, etc).

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SEX FOR GRADES | UNILAG Lecturer Allegedly Attempts Suicide, Nigerians React




A tweet making the rounds on social media alleges that University of Lagos lecturer, Dr. Boniface Igbenehue has attempted suicide and is currently in the hospital under supervision.

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Recall reports that the embattled lecturer was accused of sexual harassment in the BBC #SexForGrades investigative documentary.

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The tweet reads: ''Boniface Igbenehue attempted suicide last night & is currently in Reddington hospital, under supervision. We need him alive to face the university’s disciplinary panel & be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.'' #SexForGrades

: Read some replies to this tweet.

I cover Boniface with the blood of Jesus... He shall not die in Jesus name. We need him alive so we can put pepper on his preeq

One of Boniface 's victims attempted suicide 4 times due to the psychological trauma she suffered and endured under his consistent assault and violations of her trust, body and mind . She still hasn't been given soft landing or time to cool off at reddington

Isn’t suicide against the law in Nigeria? Double jeopardy... lol. He don’t know what is going on.

He couldn't even do that right. But when it's to grope underaged girls, he's adept knows how to find the damned cold room.

Reddington? Elite hospital! He's in good hands nigbayen, will be out shortly. We need him alive

And death said not today.

Withheld waec results released

The West African Examination Council has disclosed that, of the 1,590,173 candidates who registered and sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates, 180,205 candidates currently have their results withheld.

This was made known by WAEC’s Head of Nigeria National Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, at a briefing on Friday at the Council’s national office in Yaba, Lagos.

Adenipekun said, “The results of 180,205 candidates, representing 11.33 per cent of the total number of candidates that sat the examination are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.

“The cases are being investigated and reports of the investigations will be presented to the appropriate committee of the Council in due course.

“The committee’s decisions will be communicated to the affected candidates through their various schools.”

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The Council also reported that 1,918 candidates with varying degrees of special needs were registered for the examination.

“Out of the number, 299 were visually challenged, 842 had impaired hearing, 158 had low vision, 75 were spastic cum mentally challenged and 85 were physically challenged,” Adenipekun added.

The PUNCH reports that a total of 1,596,161 candidates registered for the examination from 18,639 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria.

Of that number, 1,590,173 candidates wrote the examination, comprising 822,098 males, and 768,075 females.

“This represents 51.70 per cent and 48.30 per cent respectively,” Adenipekun noted.