UNN Update – How To Apply For UNN 2017/2018 Hostel Accommodation Registration Begins

This is to inform all (new and returning) students of University Of Nigeria, Nsukka that the management has announced the commencement of accommodation for 2017/2018 academic session. All students should take note of the following important information with regards to student accommodation for the 2017/18 session: Important Information  1. The University has limited spaces for student accommodation. 2. The accommodation is allocated on a first come, first serve basis. 3. First Year and final year students are given high priority during allocation. 4. First years are allocated 40% of the total accommodation, final years 30% while others and special needs are allocated 30%. 5. All Nursing Mothers must apply for accommodation online and must notify the authorities early. (You are permitted to stay alone in a room or be two persons in a room). 6. The following are highly prohibited and will attract eviction from the hostel: • Squatting of any kind. • Late return to the hostel at night. • Smoking. • Drinking of Alcohol. • Stealing. • Fighting and quarrelling. • Use of hotplates, electric boiling ring, refrigerator, gas cooker and so on. • Use of generator sets. • Defecating and bathing at undesignated places. • Pouring of water in undesignated places. • Defacing of Hostel walls by posting of bills, posters and any document. 7. Only students who have specifically met the following will be qualified for hostel accommodation: • Paid all school fees till date. • Registered all courses online till date. • Possess the University ID card or have been successfully captured. • Possess and use the University student email address. 8. All hostel accommodation invoices are valid for only three days after generation. (Any student who fails to pay online within the three day period will forfeit the allocation). 9. All Rev Sisters are to follow the authorised process for accommodation. 10. Physically challenged students must also generate invoice and proceed to make payments. Application Procedure 1. Log in to the UNN Portal- http://ift.tt/1rzJz7K 2. Enter your username and password (Your username is your Registration Number for old students and JAMB registration number for new students). 3. Click on Hostel Allocation. 4. Click on Apply for Bed space (Select Hostel and Room No) 5. Click on Apply. 6. Print the Invoice carrying your RRR number and proceed to the bank or make payment using your ATM Card 7. Return to the portal and Click on Hostel Allocation. 8. Click on pay for your hostel and enter your Remita Retrieval Reference number. 9. Submit and print Receipt.

Enugu council polls: 2 professors, 2 women emerge APC chairmanship candidates

The All Progressives Congress, APC, will be fielding two professors as chairmanship candidates in the forthcoming local government election in Enugu State. Two women also emerged as the party’s chairmanship candidates for Enugu North and Nkanu West council areas. They include Mrs. Stella Nwagbara and Mrs. Uchenna Ugwu, respectively. The election has been fixed for November 4 by the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission, ENSIEC. State Chairman of the party, Dr. Ben Nwoye disclosed this yesterday while issuing certificate of return to the Udi Local Government Area chairmanship candidate of the party, Prof. Martins Ike-Muonso, at the party’s secretariat in Enugu. Nwoye declared that the APC was a party of serious minded people, stressing that “we are setting the pace in Enugu State with the calibre of candidates we are presenting for this election. “Unlike the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that will be fielding illiterates and some dafts, we are presenting erudite scholars to the Enugu people as our candidates. “You can see the candidate that is receiving his certificate of return today; he is a professor of economics; we are equally fielding one other professor for Enugu West council area.” While expressing confidence that the APC would beat the PDP in the polls, Nwoye further stated that “God gives power but He prepares you before He gives you power. Anything to the contrary, will fail. “In 2014, I had the privilege of introducing President Muhammadu Buhari to the Enugu people during the 2015 electioneering campaign; shortly before the election, I equally had the privilege of introducing Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to the Igbo Youths at the Nike Late. They went ahead and won the election. “Today again, I’m fortunate to introduce the man God has sanctioned to lead the Udi people. We shall go ahead and win and this election.” In a remark, Prof. Ike-Muonso said he was inspired to join the race owing to over two decade of neglect being suffered by his people. “I took statistics of the level of poverty and decadence and poverty in Udi Local Government Area and the apparent neglect of the place, and I decided to come out with intervention programmes to bring our people out of poverty and activate the engines of prosperity in the local government. “So, I want my people to experience new lease of life of life; I want them to experience prosperity; that’s why I’m in this race. It’s all about entrepreneurial activation. It’s all about making our youths employable. “We have massive agricultural programme as part of our agenda; we want to raise millions of farmers; we also intend to create about 300 cooperatives made up mostly of women to make them live beyond poverty and help their dependants. “We shall also give some form of subvention to the vulnerable for the entire period we are going to be in the office.” “I’m a professor of business, I’m a professor of economics; I’m a professor of diplomacy, so I practice these things; its not about rhetoric. I have done it for several governments in Nigeria and beyond. I’m not a typical classroom professor. I’m a professor that practices what I have learnt”, he added.

The Academic Staff Union Of Universities Under Fire Over Calls For Scrapping Of JAMB

The Joint Action Coalition of Civil Society Organization for Transparency in Governance has condemned the recent attack on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Accusing the union of being allergic to reforms and innovations being introduced by the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede.

The coalition has also endorsed the on-going reforms and innovations introduced by the to ease of admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions, while also passing a vote of confidence on the leadership of the Board led by its Registrar, Professor Oloyede.

The groups said the innovations will deal with corruption in the educational sector and eradicate the problem of admission racketeering. Addressing a press conference on yesterday in Abuja, Convener of the coalition, Mr. Sabo Odeh ‎said the position by ASUU is wrong.

According to him, the latest trick is through the instrumentality of calling for the scrapping of the JAMB. He said the reforms introduced by JAMB into admission process in Nigeria appears to have taken many members of ASUU engaged in admission racketeering out of business.

He said: “If ASUU is allowed to dictate how JAMB does it work, it is a matter of time before the lecturers set their sight on WAEC, Secondary and even primary schools.

“The clamour by ASUU that each university should be allowed to handle its own admission processes is an open call to empower these admission syndicates operated by no other persons but ASUU members.

Heeding ASUU’s ill-conceived call would send us back to the problems that JAMB was set up to solve.

“In the years that preceded JAMB, it was common to see some candidates secure admission into as many as five universities which implies that four slots would we wasted as the student can only resume in one school while several other candidates are made to wait another year at home because these slots have been wasted.”

Odeh blamed ASSU for the decay in the education sector that the country is today grappling to remedy, saying the union has lost its moral compass and does not have the capacity to challenge the reforms being introduced by JAMB.

He accused the union of frustrating interventions that would re-establish Nigerian universities as centres of excellence where youths can pass through and favourably compete with their contemporaries from any other top flight institutions on earth.

He said: “ASUU, as it did in the 90s, is giving the impression that it is genuinely interested in the well being of would be undergraduates.

We took time to study the situation with a view to ascertaining if ASUU’s intervention in the way JAMB conducts its major or mock examination is altruistic as they make it appear.

“Sadly, all that can be surmised from ASUU’s interference in this process is that they have resumed their efforts to hijack the education sector for their own purposes.