There is a better way to find Hostels in Nigeria

We are glad to announce to you that there is now a better way to find hostels in Nigeria. This platform was created to ease students of the wahalah of searching for hostels in hot sun or maybe after a long search, you finally discover it's has been rented out. Visiting http://hostelconnect.com.ng would save you from that stress. You get the images, location on map, The facilities it has like water, meterd electricity, agent contact, maybe it has a wardrobe or  maybe a Generator  and so on. This website is so detailed that the only thing you have to do after finding your desired hostel is to contact the Agent either from the website or by using his phone number. Yes, it's that simple. Here is the detailed information of what hostelconnect.com.ng  has to offer.

HostelConnect Nigeria is an online hostel agency dedicated to helping students, home buyers, sellers, renters and real estate agents find and share vital information about homes and hostel from all over Nigeria.
Launched formally on September 10th, 2016. Hostelconnect hNigeria as gradually become the foremost platform for real estate agents and consumers in Nigeria. We provide cutting-edge tools with a superb user experience to help in finding homes and hostels Nationwide.
We are providing an end-to-end solution for real estate consumers. From finding an hostel, to rent or buy; connecting students, men and women to real estate agents from around Nigeria. We’ve got an ever-evolving platform that makes home or hostel search a lot easier, far smarter and ever rewarding.
HostelConnectNG is the first of its kind to provide a platform for hostel search and selection process, to be hitch free, inclusive and very easy in Nigeria. Created to cover for all the institutions in Nigeria, students now have the option to get any type of befitting accommodation that suits their life style at a very competitive price. We have listed, self contain rooms, shared facility flats, en-suits rooms and students looking to share their rooms with other students.
HostelConnectNG creates a convenient and effective way for student to find and view their choice of hostel before meeting face to face with agents/landlords for payment. This service is accessible 24 hours a day to anyone with internet access across all platforms such as a computer, tablet and mobile devices.
HostelConnectNG is clearly the first and only student accommodation/property website with lots of users and advertising partners where agents/landlords/students can register and list all their hostels on one platform, and millions of students all over the country can reach them without breaking a sweat.
For the first time, a student can get to make money from his room when he is not using it, say on weekends, holiday or IT break. These rooms can be given out for a quick cash on a short let. Just upload your room and other interested users will find your listing.
Our mission is to eliminate the stress and hassles of finding homes or hostels in Nigeria, and to make the real estate sector more open and transparent. HostelConnect Nigeria is the first in Nigeria to have real estate mobile application built for IOS and Android devices. HostelConnect Nigeria revenue model is centered on activation fees by agents and also on advertisements.

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University of Ilorin Website Hacked!

The school website is currently experiencing problem from hackers, we plead to aspirants and undergraduate to stay calm as the school management is seriously working on that..

The hackers Facebook profile

https://mobile.facebook.com/to.san.39

The School is working as hard as possible to fix this. Students and Aspirant should please stay calm as this won't affect your results but might delay it a little. Thanks for you understanding. Peace!

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UNILORIN ASUU FIGHTS NATIONAL BODY OVER OLOYEDE’S JAMB APPOINTMENT

L-R: Accountant, Mrs. Ajetunmobi Ayowunmi with Secretary Seventh Day Adventist Church Ogun State Conference, Pastor Rufus Atoki , Principal Elder Samuel Obot and a member of Parent Teachers Association Pastor Mayowa Adefuye during Babcock Academy, Abeokuta, prize giving day ceremony, recently.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU of the University of Ilorin has condemned the negative
stance of its national body against the appointment of Professor Ish’aq Oloyede as the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

Professor Oloyede is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the university who was
popular among the staff particularly the larger faction of ASUU in the university. The UNILORIN branch Chairman of the union, Dr. Uthman AbdulRaheem cautioned the National Executive Council of the union against actions that were capable of foisting crisis in the branch because it had failed to force unpopular leadership
on them.

Any form of crisis they argued would not be in the interest of their innocent students who had steadily been enjoying
improved academic excellence as well as the welfare of ASUU’s teeming members.

According to the statement, “What the ASUU NEC is lamenting is its serial failure to foist unpopular leadership on the
branch. Majority of our members had insisted and still insisting that ASUU NEC will continue to fail woefully and sulk until it embraces the elementary democratic principles in the election of leadership.
“We advise the executive of the union to retrace its path back to the dreams of our founding fathers- Mahmud Tukur, late Festus Iyayi and Attahiru Jega, who all embrace democratic norms and meritocracy.”
“We consider the recent negative observation by ASUU-NEC, as published in some sections of the media, on Professor
Oloyede’s well deserving appointment, as baseless, reckless and ill–conceived.

They argued that Oloyede’s “records are impeccable. He stands tall. Therefore, he is not only suitable and fit for this current position, but even for higher challenges at national and international levels.

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Unilorin Begins 2016/2017 Pre-admission Screening Exercise

This is to inform our dear readers and aspirants that the 2016/2017 pre-admission screening exercise has begun. The school management posted the following on the school website earlier.

Here is what it has to say:

The University of Ilorin invites candidates who applied for admission into the undergraduate degree programmes of the University for the 2016/17 academic session to upload the required information for the Screening Exercise between 25TH August   and   5th September, 2016.  All results intended for use for 2016 admission must be uploaded not later than 5th September 2016 when the portal shall be closed.

Important notice:

Candidates awaiting any result should not apply please.

As part of the screening exercise, candidates are expected to follow instructions and accurately enter the required information. False submission of information/results will attract automatic disqualification

Successful candidates would be communicated via e-mail and SMS.

The following categories of candidates are eligible:

A.  UTME Candidates who made the University of Ilorin their first choice and scored:

(i)                a minimum of 180 in the UTME for courses other than those listed in (ii) below and also have five (5) O/L Credits in Mathematics, English Language and other three (3) relevant subjects at not more than two sittings;

(ii)              for MB;BS; Optometry  and Vision Science, Five (5) O/L Credits in Mathematics, English Language and other three (3) relevant subjects at not more than one sitting.

B.   DIRECT ENTRY Candidates who made the University of Ilorin their first choice and have obtained a minimum of:

(i)                Upper Credit at OND/HND where applicable.  However, Statistics, Agriculture, Performing Arts and History and International Studies, may consider lower Credit.  Only Computer Science accepts HND for admission into 200 Level.

(ii)              Merit in two (2) relevant NCE subjects (where applicable);

(iii)            A minimum of 6 points in the two relevant subjects in IJMB, NABTEB, GCE, Cambridge or equivalent;

(iv)           (a) 13 points at A/L in IJMB, NABTEB, GCE or Cambridge of equivalent in Physics, Chemistry and Biology  for MB;BS; or

(b)      Second Class (Upper Division) Honours Degree in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Physiology, Zoology or any other relevant courses in the Life Sciences.

C.  CHANGE OF COURSE

Candidates seeking change of course will be required to pay a fee of Two Thousand Five Hundred Naira (N2,500.00) only (excluding bank charges)

D.   INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATES

International Candidates who have not taken part in the UTME or filled Direct Entry Form can reach the University Admissions Officer atcie@unilorin.edu.ng  for information on admission into the University.  Such candidates will not be required to make any payment at this stage.

E.    SPECIFIC PAYMENT  INSTRUCTIONS FOR SCREENING

Each Candidate is expected to pay a screening fee of N2,500.00 only (including Bank charges).  Payment will be done on the University portal during registration by using Interswitch-enabled card (only Master and Verve Cards are accepted).

Applicants are advised to keep Acknowledgement page print-outs from the online registration of STAGES 1 and 2 for use at a later stage of the registration exercise.

F.    SCREENING REGISTRATION AND PROCEDURES

EVERY CANDIDATE SHOULD COMPLETE AND SUBMIT ON-LINE THE REGISTRTION FORM FOR SCREENING ON OR BEFORE5th SEPTEMBER, 2016.

For further details on admission requirements click http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/index.php/en/admission/general-requirements

ALL ENQUIRES SHOULD BE SENT admissions2016@unilorin.edu.ng

CLICK HERE TO BEGIN REGISTRATION NOW.

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NLNG Launches N700m Engineering Research Centreat At Unilorin

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has added University of Ilorin to the list of institutions where it has delivered state-of-the-art engineering laboratory.
The N700 million project dubbed NLNG Engineering Research Centreat is the fourth to be so far delivered by the gas export company under its University Support Programme (USP) in which it has mapped out princely $12 million (N4.2 billion) for six centres of engineering excellence in the six geopolitical zones of the country.
Spokesman, Dr. Kudo Ersesia-Eke, says the USP programme is one of NLNG’s interventions in education, adding that the company has benefited some 3000 Nigerian students with a scholarship programme that covers secondary school, undergraduate and overseas post-graduate studies.

NLNG has so far commissioned the Ahmadu Bello University Multi-user Engineering Laboratory, the University of Ibadan Engineering Complex and the NLNG/University of Port Harcourt Oil and Gas Engineering Centre.
The USP scheme was launched in 2014 to help develop engineering education capacity in the country. The other beneficiaries are University of Maiduguri and University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
In his keynote address, Babs Omotowa, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NLNG, said: “The University Support Programme is one of NLNG’s approaches to developing Nigerian human capital and fostering technological advancement.  We recognise that universities, with their crop of young people and nimble minds, when aided properly, are the fertile grounds from which ideas to fast track Nigeria’s progress will spring from.
“At Nigeria LNG, we like to proudly assert that we have successfully built a great company. That is a fact. But today our challenge and focus is building an even greater one to bequeath to our successors and to Nigeria.Therefore, the USP project is, in a sense, another chapter in that momentous journey and another feather in NLNG’s cap as a socially responsible corporate organisation.
“We continue to offer scholarships to deserving young Nigerians at secondary school, university and post graduate levels. We also endow the Nigeria Prize for Science and the Nigeria Prize for Literature worth a $100,000 each, and run the Bonny Vocational Centre which awards the International Technical Vocation Level 3 Certificate of London City and Guilds and the Nigerian Skills Technical Certificate to graduates.
“I expect that the new laboratory complex will be put to excellent use. The present administration has called for home-grown solutions to the problems facing us as a nation- from agriculture, power generation and distribution, technological advancement, to healthcare and infrastructure development,” he said.
The Executive Governor of Kwara State, Dr. Ahmed in his address commended Nigeria LNG statingthat ithas distinguished itself as a unifying corporate organisation in the face of the diverse interests plaguing the unity of the country, evidenced by the intense clamour for regional autonomy and resource control in the respective zones. He added the USP programme was a rare show of commitment to the good of the nationin spite of the security and other situations plaguing various parts of the country.
The projects in the remaining two universities, University of Maiduguri and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, are at different levels of completion.
NLNG explains that the six universities were selected based on rankings by the National Universities Commission (NUC), other international bodies, as well as long standing contributions to the development of local capacity in Nigeria and their out-standing performance within each of the six geopolitical zones in the country, especially in the area of engineering and technical education.
Nigeria LNG Limited is the most significant arrow-head of the federal government’s quest to eliminate gas flaring and derive value from the country’s 187 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves.

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Unilorin seeks NUC’s approval to admit more students

The Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali (OON), said on Monday that the institution seeking the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to admit more students.

Prof. Ambali told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin that the University authority was already putting necessary modalities in place towards accommodating more students.
According to him, the university will admit more students for the 2016/2017 academic session, if ongoing discussions with the National Universities Commission (NUC) yield positive result.
He explained that in view of this, more lecture theatres, more class rooms, and more hostels are being built to make learning and teaching more conducive for both students and staff.
The Vice-Chancellor explained that discussion was ongoing with the NUC on the need to increase the carrying capacity of the University, which is the most sought-after tertiary institution by admission applicants.
Ambali expressed confidence that the request would be considered by the NUC following the obvious provision of enabling environment being created by the University.
He told NAN that the institution aimed at advancing teaching, research and community service, the tripartite mandates of all ivory towers.
Speaking on the recent rumour that the University had released the modality for its post-UTME screening, Ambali said it was baseless and unfounded.
He explained that the authority of the University of Ilorin was yet to release either the date or modalities for the admission processes.
The VC urged admission seekers and their parents to disregard the fake modality that has gone viral on the social media.
He reiterated the University’s commitment to maintain and sustain its uncommon academic integrity in the interest of not only the members of the University community but also the entire world. (NAN)

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