Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, has received approval from the National Universities Commission to run additional undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The Registrar of the university, Omololu Adegbenro, quoting a letter by the NUC, said the approval followed the resource verification exercise conducted by the NUC in April. In a statement on Monday, the varsity named the approved programmes at the …

An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced a former Vice Chancellor of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Prof. Adekunle Oloyede, to five years imprisonment for $1.2 million fraud. Justice Aderemi Adegoroye jailed the professor after finding him guilty on all six counts of false pretences, stealing and fraud contrary to the anti-graft laws of …