LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kiki Mordi, the BBC journalist who went undercover to expose university lecturers guilty of sex for grades, has started receiving death threats from people angry about the exposé. Kiki, who said she was herself a victim of sexual harassment in the university and didn’t graduate, said on Monday that the project was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The University of Lagos has suspended its lecturer who was involved in a sex-for-marks scandal. The lecturer was exposed in a video by BBC Africa where an undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi, disguised as a 17-year-old admission seeker. The vice-chancellor of the institution, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES in an…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The University of Lagos has emphasised the need for managements of universities across the country to intensify efforts in ensuring effective measures to tackle sexual harassment. The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Friday morning cleared the air regarding the alleged invitation of the Lagos State Caretaker Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya, alias MC Oluomo, as special guest at a campus event, stressing that he never attended any event…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has finally released the cut-off marks for the 2019/2020 admission exercise into various courses with Medicine and Surgery recording the highest marks. The cut off marks will end weeks of anxiety among candidates that picked UNILAG as the first choice and participated in the Post-UTME…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Two scholars from the University of Lagos have attracted a total of €12,00,000, pounds (N540,000,000 million) for research. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the grants were from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund. The scholars are Dr Sunday Adebisi, Director, African Research Universities Alliance…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Friday said that at least 25,000 candidates participated in the institution’s Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which ended on Friday. An official in the admissions office of the university, who spoke anonymously, made disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three University of Lagos students have invented a vehicular road advance electronic flood level caution device for detection of water levels on major roads. The inventors are postgraduate students of the Physics Department of the university. One of the researchers, Mr Olufemi Ilori, told NAN on the sideline of its exhibition in…
