The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, raised the alarm that most departments and units in Nigeria’s public universities were short-staffed due to the resignation of lecturers in search of greener pastures. The Chairman of the University of Ibadan Chapter of ASUU, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, who disclosed this in Ibadan, Oyo State, said […]
The management of University of Calabar, UNICAL, has suspended the new charges and levies it announced earlier, till further notice. This is coming on the heels of the peaceful protest by Students of the institution on Monday over the decision of management to increase their tuition fees and other levies. In a statement […]
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it is not aware that President Bola Tinubu had directed that its members be paid four out of eight months of withheld salary arrears. The National Vice President of ASUU, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, stated this in an interview with journalists on the sidelines […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday announced the dates for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. In a statement by JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, the board said the main UTME will be held from April 19 to 29, 2024. The statement reads: “Based on the series of recommendations emanating from […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), on Monday, said it has concluded plans to conduct Computer Based Examination (CBE) for candidates writing its examination. In a statement, the acting Head of Public Affairs at WAEC, Moyosola Adesina, said the adoption of the CBT will commence with WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2024 – First […]
President Bola Tinubu says the implementation of the student loan initiative will commence in January 2024. Tinubu, who was speaking at Abuja during the National Economic Summit 2023 on Monday, assured Nigerian students that the era of incessant strikes will be a thing of the past. “By January 2024, the new student loan must […]
The Nigerian Governors Forum urged its members to allocate 15% of state budgets to education. The Chairman of the Forum, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq made this known during a briefing organized by the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Wednesday. It was organised by the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with the United Nations […]
Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened to commence an indefinite strike in public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa State over the N30,000 minimum wage and promotion arrears. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the union took the decision at an executive meeting on 12 October, after an earlier three-day warning strike […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities ((ASUU) has kicked against the plan by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to include private universities as beneficiaries of its projects. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known at a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions in Abuja on Wednesday. Osodeke […]
The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says statistics indicate that no fewer than 99,985 Nigerian students left the country to enrol in universities in the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2022. The minister disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the 2023 University of Lagos International Week on Monday, in Lagos. Every year, […]
