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NYSC National Headquarters in Abuja Corps members during swearing-in ceremony at a NYSC Orientation Camp. The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a mandatory, post-tertiary scheme set up by the Nigerian government during the military regime of Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, to "reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war". [1]
The second decision-making arm of the All-Africa Students Union, the Executive Committee comprises the President; five Regional Vice Presidents (representing North Africa, South Africa, West Africa, East and Central Africa); five Executive Committee Representatives and six officers of the Secretariat, including the Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General, Secretary for Education, Secretary ...
Jobberman Nigeria was founded in August 2009 by Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi [1] [2] in their dormitory in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife [3] to help connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring. [4] In 2011, Tiger Global became a Jobberman Nigeria investor in less than three years after it started ...
It brought together student councils in Ife, Zaria, and Nsukka. [1] In April 1978, Nigerian students were faced with the imposition of increased fees, and NUNS participated in a series of Campus protests across the whole of Nigeria known as the Ali Must Go protests. The government responded by sending in the army and police, leading to the ...
The formation of the NIFES saw the beginning of the evangelical students movement in Nigeria which started when some British graduates from the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of the UK initiated annual camps through which a number of African students’ leaders emerged and caught a vision for starting students groups, and there was a need to start an evangelical movement in Africa.
The Students' Union is known for defending students' rights around Africa. On 11 March 2010, the Students' Union, led by Alaje A. Paul, President of the organization at the time, participated in a protest in F.C.T. Abuja. This was in defense of sections S144 and 145 of the Nigerian Constitution.
The Development of Universities in Nigeria (London: Longman, 1971). Tibenderana, Peter K. Education and Cultural Change in Northern Nigeria, 1906–1966: A Study in the Creation of a Dependent Culture (Kampala: Fountain, 2003). Whitehead, Clive. "The ‘Two-way Pull’ and the Establishment of University Education in British West Africa."
WASU's influence in West Africa again increased, with both the Nigerian Union of Students and the Sierra Leone Students' Union affiliating. WASU also represented the Nigeria Union of Teachers within the UK. With its links to the Nigerian trade union movement, WASU was a significant supporter of the Nigerian general strike of 1945. [3]