The Federal Executive Council on Monday approved the renaming of the University of Abuja as Yakubu Gowon University. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed this to State House correspondents after the council held its last meeting for 2024 at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Idris said, “The third item is that […]
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has directed its members to resume duties effective Monday, December 16, 2024. This directive followed the expiration of a two-week industrial action observed by the union from December 2, 2024, to December 15, 2024. ASUP President, Shammah Kpanja, in a statement, said the directive for polytechnic lecturers to […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities chapter at Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University has embarked on an indefinite strike, citing the state government’s failure to honour agreements previously reached with the union. The declaration was made on Tuesday following a meeting at the ASUU NDU secretariat in Amassoma. The chairperson, Dr. Lucky Bebeteidoh, announced that […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that the federal government’s proposal to phase out the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) by 2030 will destroy public tertiary institutions and education in the country. The union argues that such a move would not only negate the efforts invested in establishing TETFund but would also […]
The Federal Government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo, The PUNCH reports. The directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date. The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, […]
The embattled and sacked seventh Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK), Professor Benard Odoh has instituted legal actions against the management of Federal University, Gusau (FUGUS) Zamfara State over the alleged denial of his professorial appointment and employment status. In a statement on Wednesday, signed by his Personal Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr […]
The Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State has disowned the sacked Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikwe University (UNIZIK) Awka, Anambra State, Bernard Ifeanyi Odoh, saying that he has never worked as a professor in the University. Addressing the newsmen on Thursday evening in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, the Vice Chancellor of the university, […]
President Bola Tinubu has reinstated Prof. Joseph Ifenayichukwu Ikechebelu as the acting Vice Chancellor of Nnamadi Azikiwe University, AWKA, Anambra state. This was contained in a letter signed by Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the Permanent Secretary of Federal Ministry of Education and made available to journalists on Thursday. The development followed the nullification of the appointment […]
The sacked Vice-Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Prof Bernard Odoh, on Thursday, lamented the mode through which he was removed as the institution’s VC, stating that it didn’t go through a due process. Odoh’s concerns follow his sack and that of the institution’s governing council over his purported “illegal” appointment. In […]
President Bola Tinubu has dissolved the Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, and removed its newly appointed Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bernard Odoh, and Registrar, Mrs. Rosemary Nwokike. He also approved the removal of Ohieku Salami as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo, Benue State. […]
