YEMEN FIGHTING PUSHES NEARLY 3,000 TO DJIBOUTI IN LESS THAN A WEEK- UN. (PHOTO).
Yemen fighting pushes nearly 3,000 to Djibouti in less than a week: UN Nearly 3,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti in less than a week as escalating violence drives growing displacement within the country and across its borders, the UN refugee agency said Friday. “Refugees continue to arrive by boat through Obock, Khor Angar, Moulhoule and Godoria after difficult journeys in small vessels,” UNHCR representative in Djibouti Sandrine Desamours told reporters in Geneva, Anadolu Agency reported. More than half of those crossing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait are women and children, while some families have been displaced for a second time after previously fleeing Yemen during the 2015 crisis and later returning. UNHCR is preparing for at least 10,000 new arrivals but warned that capacity is rapidly diminishing. Markazi refugee village, designed for 5,000 people, was already hosting more than 2,700 Yemenis and 1,500 Eritreans. More than 100,000 people have also been displaced ins...
Today thursday,the National Universities Commission {NUC},has warned that degrees obtained from Maryam Abacha's American University of Niger Republic {MAAUN} are sub standard and will not be accepted in Nigeria.The NUC Director of Information and Public Relations,Malam Ibrahim Yakasai,handed down the warning while briefing newsmen today thursday in Abuja.He said the NUC has been inundated with inquiries from some Nigerian students who have been offered admission in MAAUN on part time with a graduation time of four semesters.He listed some of the programmes as Nursing,Medical Laboratory Science,Public Health,among others.He explained further that ''Professional programmes in science,Engineering and Health Sciences,Nursing,Medical Laboratory Science and Public Health are not offered on Part-time basis in Nigeria.More so,their graduation time is far less than the graduation time in Nigeria they admit students with HND on direct entry and they give them two years to do a degree in Nursing or Health Sciences.We wish to restate that as the only Quality Assurance Agency for universities in Nigeria,NUC is maintaining its stand that degrees from MAAUN will not be accepted in Nigeria''.He further said that the university admitted students who ordinarily would not get admission in any Nigerian tertiary institution.One more photo below. 
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