2015/2016 Session: Beware of scammers, UNILORIN warns admission seekers
- nationalpilot
- Jul 6, 2015
- 2 min read
The management of University of Ilorin has warned admission seekers into the institution for 2015/2016 academic session to beware of scammers, saying date for Post-UTME screening exercise has not been set.
Apparently dispelling the rumours making the rounds regarding the admission process, the university said no date has been scheduled.
This was made known in two separate statements made available on the university's website.
The first statement reads: “POST UTME 2015/2016 SCAM ALERT: The Management of University of Ilorin hereby notify all applicants seeking admission into University of Ilorin for 2015/2016 Academic Session that the University has NOT scheduled any date for the Post-UTME Screening Exercise. The date for the screening exercise will be communicated through the website (http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/).”
The second statement, said: “University of Ilorin Post UTME date is not set! Applicants seeking admission for the 2015/2016 academic session should ignore false news by scammers.”
Meanwhile, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), Mr. Babs Omotowa, has said that the verifiable commitment of the University of Ilorin to excellence was responsible for its choice as one of the six beneficiaries of the company's University support initiative.
The NLNG boss spoke through the company's General Manager, External Affairs, Dr. Kudo Eresia-Eke, who led a team on a visit to the University.
Six universities were selected across the country last year, on a competitive basis, for the NLNG's $12 million grant to build world class engineering research centres.
The University of Ilorin got the North-Central slot. The others are the University of Ibadan (South West); the University of Port Harcourt (South South); the University of Maiduguri (North East); Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (North West); and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (South East).
Dr. Eresia-Eke said that the NLNG team was in Unilorin to track the progress of work on the research centre and to hold a technical meeting with the Unilorin team on the likely completion and commissioning dates for the project.
The NLNG Managing Director's representative noted that the Education Intervention Fund was part of the company's contributions to the building of a better Nigeria through the advancement of Science and Engineering.
Pointing out that the NLNG is committed to helping to build a better Nigeria, Dr. Eresia-Eke said, “There is no better way to develop Nigeria than to invest in education. And that is why our footprint in education is very large. We have also invested in Literature and Science with the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature and Science respectively”.
In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali (OON), thanked the NLNG for the intervention grant to build a world class research centre in the University.
Stressing that education is not the sole responsibility of government; Ambali said that the private sector needs to contribute its quota. He, however, called on other players in the private sector to emulate the NLNG, whose intervention in the infrastructural development of universities in the country, would help to increase access to qualitative and quantitative education.
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