ACADEMIC BLOG

By Hangeior Degarr Thursday 24 th November 2017, the Benue State government through the commissioner of health and human services Dr. Cecilia Ojabo confirmed a case of Monkey pox disease. This was after a series of tests at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi (BSUTH) and confirmation of sample tests carried out at the World Health Organisation regional laboratory in Senegal. The patient and the person whom she had close contact with were put in an isolated unit at the hospital where they are been treated.   Just like other tertiary health institutions in Nigeria, BSUTH has remained at the forefront of monitoring emergent health challenges within Benue state and neighbouring states. Evidently, it remains the leading tertiary institution within and around the Benue environment. Like its sister institution, the famous Benue State University, Makurdi, it remained the first and only State own teaching hospital attached to a state run university in the whole...

BSU DV directs conference marking of 2016/2017 first semester exams. By H angeior Degarr   The Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, of the Benue State University Makurdi, Professor Edward Omudu has directed the commencement of conference marking of first semester 2016/2016 undergraduate examination scripts across all faculties. The conference marking commenced yesterday 6 th November 2016 and is taking place at designated halls in various faculties of the university. This measure is targeted at prompt processing and release of student results. Conference marking of scripts was introduced to help ease and address the issue of delay in the release of results. Investigation shows that the exercise in the Faculty of Social Sciences is taking place at the conference room of the faulty, located at the Western Wing Campus of BSU. The Dean of the faculty, Dr. P. T. Abachi was seen supervising the marking while other academic staff of the Faculty of Social Sciences were also b...