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Plateau State University (PLASU) Releases 2024/2025 Admission List

Fadiran Ifeloluwa October 31, 2024

Plateau State University (PLASU) in Bokkos has published the undergraduate admission list for the 2024/2025 academic year, listing candidates provisionally admitted to various degree programs. How to Check Your PLASU Admission Status Applicants can verify their admission status on the JAMB

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Plateau State University rusticates 43 students

Fadiran Ifeloluwa July 19, 2024

Plateau State University, Bokkos has rusticated 43 students for examination misconduct and other violations of university policies. The rustication was part of a decision passed at the end of the university Senate’s 88th meeting, presided over by Professor Shedrack Best, Acting Vice-Chancellor. The VC, represented by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Professor Moses

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Plateau University suspends academic activities following recent attack

Fadiran Ifeloluwa April 20, 2024

Plateau University, Bokkos, has suspended academic activities for ten days following the death of a second-year student. Mr Yakubu Ayuba, the institution’s Registrar, made this known in a statement issued Saturday in Jos. On Thursday night, gunmen attacked Chikam, a neighbouring town to the university, killing a student named Dading Jordan. Ayuba stated that the […]

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Gunmen attack Plateau State University, killing and injuring several people

Fadiran Ifeloluwa April 19, 2024

Gunmen believed to be herders are now on the rampage at Plateau State University in the Bokkos Local Government Area. Many people are believed to have been killed, as a fleeing student stated over the phone that the attack was still underway. “It is pandemonium everyone is scampering to safety because rattling gunshots are all […]

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Plateau State University Bokkos under risk of shutdown

Fadiran Ifeloluwa April 7, 2024

The All Progressives Congress is deeply concerned about the Plateau State University Bokkos’ potential closure by the National University Commission due to the State Government’s infractions of the commission’s criteria. According to a statement signed by Shittu Bamaiyi, Acting Publicity Secretary, information received by the Party indicates that the NUC

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ASUU criticises Plateau government for removing PLASU VC and dissolving the governing council

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 22, 2024

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Plateau State University Chapter has criticised the Plateau State Government for dissolving the university’s governing council and removing the vice chancellor, Professor Malau Bernard Matur, without following the university’s existing laws. The Union, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Dr. Monday Hassan

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Ex-SSG is named as the new VC for Plateau University

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 8, 2024

Caleb Mutfwang, the governor of Plateau State, approved the appointment of Prof. Shedrack Best, a former secretary to the state government, as the next vice chancellor of the state university situated in the state’s Bokkos Local Government Area. Shortly after the governor dismissed Prof. Bernard Matur, the former VC, and four other heads of the […]

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Gov Muftwang dissolves PLASU governing council, sacks VC

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 7, 2024

Governor Caleb Mutfwang has dismissed Professor Bernard Matur Malau as vice chancellor and dissolved the governing council of Plateau State University, Bokkos, effective immediately, as part of his efforts to reposition Plateau’s tertiary institutions. A statement from Mr. Samuel Jatau, the Secretary to the State Government, states that Pankshin, the College of

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Plateau University matriculates 4,000 students

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

JOS (Sundiata Scholar) – On Wednesday, 4,000 new students were admitted to the faculties and departments of Plateau University, Bokkos, for the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 academic years. Prof. Bernard Matur, the university’s vice-chancellor, commended the students on being the fortunate ones to be admitted during his speech at the occasion on Wednesday in Jos.

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The Plateau State University ASUU to Commence Indefinite Strike

Fadiran Ifeloluwa November 9, 2023

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Plateau State University (PLASU) initiated a comprehensive and indefinite strike action that has halted academic activities in the institution. The university chapter of ASUU released a statement, signed by Comrade Deme Samson Bitrus, the secretary, and chairperson Dr. Hassan Monday Zitta, stating that the strike was