th 0795-3089 11 December, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 50 FG Approves Six New Private Varsities — Total now 160, Private 74 The Federal Executive Council last Wednesday approved the licensing of six new private Universities. This brings the number of Private Universities in Nigeria to 74 and the total universities in Nigeria to 160. The newly approved Private Universities are: i. Admiralty University, Ibusa, Delta State ii. Spiritan University, Nneochi, Abia State iii. Precious Cornerstone His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCON University, Oyo, Oyo President, Federal Republic of Nigeria State iv. PAMO University of Medical Sciences, State Portharcourt, Rivers v. Atiba University, Oyo, in this edition CLAN 2017: Language Creates, Spanish Delegation Seeks Sussex Varsity Trains 100 Lecturers Resolves Conflicts Partnership with NUC on Pedagogy Linguists Must be Multidisciplinary - Prof. Rasheed Pg. 3 Pg. 6 — NUC Scribe happy Pg. 7 11th December, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 50 Oyo State The THE SWORD OF THE Nigeria. The Foundation is vi. Eko University of S P I R I T M I N I S T R I E S represented by group of Medical Sciences, (SOTSM), is the Proprietor of notable people from Oyo and Ijanikin, Lagos State. the Precious Cornerstone Oke-Ogun axis. ATIBA University. The Precious University is located on two The Admiralty Education Cornerstone University is campuses in Oyo town, Atiba Services Limited, is the located in two campuses, Local Government Area of Proprietor of Admiralty namely the take off campus at Oyo State. Campus 1 of University of Nigeria. Garden of Victory, a (3) three ATIBA University is in Oyo Admiralty University of hectare land at the Old Ife town. Nigeria is located in two Road in Ibadan and the main campuses, namely the take off campus along Ibadan- Lagos T h e I b r a h e e m J i y y a h campus at Ibusa, Oshimili Expressway in the Oluyole Memorial Foundation is the South Local Government Area Local Government Area, Proprietor of Eko University of Delta State, a 30.014 about 24 kilometers from of Medicine and Health hectares land the main campus Ibadan City Center in Oyo Sciences, Ijanikin, Lagos. Eko located on a 203.1 hectare State. The site covers an area University of Medicine and land at the present site of the of about 102.9506 hectares. Health Sciences is located on Nigerian Navy Engineering two campuses namely Ijanikin College, Sapele, Sapele Local P A M O E d u c a t i o n a l campus and Badagry campus. Government Area. Foundation is the proprietor The Ijanikin campus houses of PAMO University of the take-off facilities. The Holy Ghost Congregation Medical Sciences. PAMO (Spiritans), province of University of Medical It is on a 1.688 hectares of land Nigeria, South East, is the Sciences is located on at Km 28 Badagry Express Proprietor of Spiritan multiple campuses. The main Way, Era Road, Ijanikin in Ojo University. The location of the campus is located on a 6.03 Local Government Area of University is Nneato-Isuochi, ha of land at No. 1 Tap Road, Lagos State. The Badagry Umunneochi LGA in Abia Elelenwo in Port Harcourt, campus is at Topo Island, State. Nneato and Isuochi are O b i o A k p o r L o c a l Badagry, an area of 112 the names of the two towns Government of Rivers State hectare coastal land. hosting the University. The with the PAMO University of two communities provided the Medical Sciences Teaching The date for the ceremony of land for the University and Hosptal at Rumuomasi in Port the official presentation of the they both want their names Harcourt. license to the Universities reflected in the name.. The would be announced in due University is located on a The Proprietor of ATIBA course. NUC congratulates the 114.517 hectares. University is the ATIBA Oyo Proprietors/Promoters of the Education Foundation in newly approved Private Universities. Page 2 MONDAY BULLETIN A Publication of The Office of The Executive Secretary 11th December, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 50 CLAN 2017: Language Creates, Resolves Conflicts Linguists Must be Multidisciplinary - Prof. Rasheed Dr. Sarah Jibrin (3rd left) VC, IAUE, Prof. Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele (left); Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar A. Rasheed (4th right); LAN, President, Prof. Harrison Adeniyi (3rd right) and some members of LAN leadership Professor of Linguistics and conflict in relationships, aspirations and collaboration. Executive Secretary National societies and nations. H e n o t e d t h a t s u p e r i o r Universities Commission (NUC), communication was practised Abubakar A. Rasheed mni, FNAL The linguist said that human and experienced among group MFR has said that “language is used essence was embedded in the members when some individuals believed that they were more to deliberately or inadvertently masterful use and study of important than others. create conflict in society” and that language and that language “It is language that is used to could be referred to as a means of The main theme of this year’s minimize tension and resolve the expressing one’s thoughts and Conference was Language, conflict”. expressions through verbal Literature, Culture and Conflict sounds, written symbols and Resolution. Delivering a keynote address at the other conventional signs, 30th Annual Conference of the stressing that it was through The Executive Secretary Linguistic Association of Nigeria language that all forms of expressed delight that CLAN (LAN), held at Ignatius Ajuru communication took place. 2017 had rich sub-themes with University of Education, Port Ten out of the 17 sub-themes Harcourt, Rivers State, Professor “Conflict often occur when focusing on conflict and Rasheed said all forms of abuses, individuals and groups recognise resolution, noting that it was quarrels, verbal battles that led to a disagreement from an opposing reasonable to argue that issues wars were usually expressed party or person as well as when about contemporary societies through different modes of people in a society, group, team were basically issues about communication, noting that it or nation perceive they are language form and language use. was central in all human denied access to information or engagements, including wars and any other benefit that they He said that language revealed peace. deserve to have as members of the relationships in the society, in the group,” he said. biology, language expressed the According to Professor Rasheed, characteristics of living things, He added that certain members conflict was an expressed while in political science; it was of a group used exclusive struggle between at least two used to express the art of language which did not parties, both of whom perceived governance. accommodate others, while team interference from the other work on the other hand was not He added that language had towards achieving their goals, operational among members and adding that there were different permeated the omnibus world of individual desires were more machines, computers and virtual factors that could bring about important than group goals, Page 3 MONDAY BULLETIN A Publication of The Office of The Executive Secretary 11th December, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 50 the next 100 years? b. In other words, what l i n g u i s t i c c h a n g e s s h o u l d l a n g u a g e s c h o l a r s b e prepared for as the world advances speedily? c. What nanotechnologies and virtual technologies will influence the use of language in the next 100 years? d. Will there be paper and pen to write letters and long essays? Prof. Abubakar A. Rasheed Dr. Sarah Jibril delivering his keynote address e. Will the world go delivering her address p a p e r l e s s i n t h e reality, while it was feared that strongly with other academic emerging culture of with the ever-increasing artificial stakeholders, stressing that what i n t e r n e t intelligence technology, the others did concerned the communication? ability of machines to use their participants because they used f. How prepared are we as own language and consciousness language and that what “we do linguistics and applied to perform operations without should also concern them linguists to grapple with recourse to human control might because they are guided by the the emerging language spell doom to humanity. use of language.” culture as we perform our academic tasks? Speaking on the rise of artificial The NUC Scribe said that “there intelligence, Professor Rasheed are emerging areas that need Professor Rasheed felt that the said that Michio Kaku, a specialized registers. There are theme and the sub-themes of the Japanese quantum physicist and older fields with new language 2017 conference offered the Nobel Laureate, had opened up developments. There are also e s t e e m e d m e m b e r s t h e fresh vista about what the earth newer relations and synergies. It opportunity to refocus on more would become in the next 100 is my expectation that the papers effective multidisciplinary years, based on the evidence of that will be presented at this scholarship now and in the science and history, in his conference will generate f u t u r e , a d d i n g t h a t t h e uncommon book, Physics of the sufficient academic quarrels and participants must re-negotiate Future, which was published by the resolution of those quarrels their academic relevance First Anchor Books in New York would be in favour of sustaining in 2012.