The Governing Council of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State has announced Prof. Carol Arinze-Umobi as the new acting Vice Chancellor of the institution. Arinze-Umobi’s appointment followed the removal of the former acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joe Ikechebelu, who was removed during a meeting at the Council Chambers of the institution, on Saturday. This was disclosed in a letter by …

Ahead of its “Biafra’s Heroes Day” slated for 30 May across the South-East, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the authorities of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to shift its scheduled examination for the day. Similarly, the body asked the authorities of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, to postpone its convocation ceremony scheduled for the day. In …

A graduate of Chemistry from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State, Juliet Chidiebube Uka, has scored 324 in the just concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Uka was the best-graduating student in the Department of Chemistry at UNIZIK in 2021,  graduating with a first class. She said she sat for the 2024 UTME to study Medicine as she …

The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State has suspended no fewer than 14 academic and non-academic staff, and other categories of employees, including students for various misconducts and offences. About five lecturers were indicted of various offences including extortion of students who successfully completed their courses. One lecturer was dismissed for using a student to extort money from other …

A stray bullet fired by some yet-to-be-identified hoodlums, suspected to be cultists has killed a 100-level female student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. City Round gathered that the incident happened late on Thursday, along the popular Miracle Junction in Ifite Awka. Eyewitnesses in the area said the incident occurred as the hoodlums chased and aimed to shoot …

A former lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Peter Ekemezie has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for publishing defamatory statements against one Prof. Alex Asigbo. Ekemezie, who was charged with three counts bordering on forgery and defamation, was however given an option of N300,000 fine. While delivering the judgement at an Awka Magistrates’ …

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