The management of the university in a statement issued by Acting Registrar, Barr. T.M Ikpenwa disclosed that the examinations which were earlier billed to commence Monday, November 16 (today) have been postponed for a period of two weeks.

Ikpenwa said the postponement was informed by the need to address some technical issues and to afford more time for conclusion of classes and revisions.

He said, “Following the recent interactions with the students of the University, Management Committee held a meeting on Monday the 16th day of November, 2020 to deliberate on some outstanding technical issue required to be fully addressed to engender smooth conduct of the Examinations that were earlier scheduled to have commenced on the 16th day of November, 2020.

“After due deliberations on the issues raised therein and also, taking cognizance of the various needs to conclude both the tutorial classes and revisions in the interest of the students, Management thereafter, resolved to postpone the examinations by another two weeks. In other words, the Examinations will now commence on the 30th day of November, 2020 instead.

“By this development thereafter, the additional period of fourteen (14) days is to enable both the Lecturers and the students conclude any outstanding tutorial classes and revisions so as to achieve the envisaged hitch-free 2019/2020 First Semester Examinations appropriate.”

African News Today gathered the examinations which will be computer based will be coordinated by non-teaching staff of the university.

A student who spoke with our correspondent on the condition of anonymity expressed joy at the postponement, noting that the CBT will not permit students who are yet to pay their fees do the examination. The student said the shift will afford more time to offset the fees.

Recall that the university was among the first to conduct matriculation for its freshers even as others were battling with modalities for intake of new students.

 

 

 

The 'Duelling Dinosaurs' were found in 2006 in Montana, US by a cattle rancher cowboy and two of his friends. 67 million-year-old remains of T-rex and Triceratops reveal a ferocious battle to the death that's frozen in time. Following a protracted legal battle over ownership the remains have been sold to the North Carolina Museum

 

 

 

The world's first ever complete T-rex skeleton, which became buried in sediment after a deadly duel with a Triceratops 67 million years ago, has been revealed by scientists.

 

 

 

The Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops horridus – nicknamed the 'Dueling Dinosaurs' – are preserved together in what is thought to be a predator-prey encounter, where both fought to the death.

 

 

 

Body outlines, skin impressions and injuries – including Tyrannosaur teeth stuck in the Triceratops' body – can still be seen 67 million years after the ferocious battle.

 

 

 

Each of the remains have only been seen by only a few dozen people since they were discovered in 2006 in Montana, US, by professional fossil hunters.

 

 

 

It took years to extract the 14-ton skeletons and arrange their purchase, by the non-profit Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for an undisclosed sum.

 

 

 

The group has donated them to North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is due to start building a dedicated exhibition for them next year.

 

 

 

The Dueling Dinosaurs, which have not yet been studied, have been described as 'one of the most important paleontological discoveries of our time'.

 

 

 

'This fossil will forever change our view of the world's two favourite dinosaurs,' said Dr Lindsay Zanno, head of palaeontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

 

 

 

'The preservation is phenomenal, and we plan to use every technological innovation available to reveal new information on the biology of the T. rex and Triceratops.

 

 

 

'We have not yet studied this specimen – it is a scientific frontier.'

 

 

 

The T-rex includes the only 100 per cent complete T-rex ever found – even better preserved than Sue, housed at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.

 

 

 

'Dueling Dinosaurs' tyrannosaur is a young individual, not yet fully grown,' Dr Zanno told MailOnline. 'By comparison Sue is a large, skeletally mature individual of T-rex.

 

 

 

'However, our tyrannosaur is 100 per cent complete, preserving every bone in the body on both sides in life position [while] Sue is about 85 per cent complete.'

 

 

 

The 'dueling' tyrannosaur also has skin impressions – fossilised remains of skin surfaces – which are extremely rare.

 

 

 

'There is not, to my knowledge, evidence of skin preservation on Sue,' said Dr Zanno.

 

 

 

The Dueling Dinosaurs' carcasses have remained entombed within sediment from the Montana hillside where they were discovered by the professional fossil hunters – a cattle rancher and two of his friends.Because of these rare burial conditions, each bone is in its natural position and museum scientists will have access to biological data that is typically lost in the excavation and preparation processes.