Academic activities in Universities and Inter-University Centres in Nigeria may once again be put on a hold, following a disagreement between various unions over the sharing formula of the just-approved N22.127 billion for payment of earned allowances for the university staff. Information made available to journalists in Abuja stated that out of the approved amount, […]
FRESH tension is looming in the nation’s universities and inter-university centres over the sharing formula of the just approved N22.127 billion for payment of Earned Allowances for the university staff. It was gathered that out of the approved amount, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is to take a lion share of 75 percent […]
Governor Muhammadu Yahaya of Gombe State says the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Camp for repentant Boko Haram members located at Kwami Local Government Area of the state should be relocated to the Nigerian Army University in Biu. Yahaya stated this while receiving the General Officer Commanding, 3 Division, also known as Operation Safe Heaven, Maj […]
The Presidency has lamented the impact of insurgency and banditry on school attendance in the country noting that over 12 million children have been forced out of school. Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari said this on Tuesday at the fourth International Conference on Safe Schools Declaration in Abuja. Gambari, who represented President […]
A Professor of Adolescent and Reproductive Health Counselling, Olufunmilayo Osakinle, has urged policymakers and lawmakers to make sex education compulsory and introduce it into school curricular across the country. Osakinle said exposing children to in-depth knowledge from the cradle of education would make them escape cases of sexual molestations that could befall them at adolescence […]
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) says establishment of Polytechnics in Nigeria is fast becoming mere constituency projects to satisfy political convenience. ASUP President, Anderson Ezeibe, stated this in Abuja on Tuesday at a two-day Workshop themed: “Advocacy Roundtable on the Future of Nigerian Polytechnics” organised by the union. He said, “We do not […]
The Federal Polytechnic Bauchi has dismissed 30 of its students for examination malpractice and forgery of their certificates. The Rector of the institution, Sanusi Gumau, flanked by the Chairman of the Governing Council, Barr. Isaac Abbot Ogbobula disclosed this at a press conference held on Sunday. He said that the students who were found guilty […]
Out of a total of 110 students who were offered admission into the new campus of the Federal College of Agriculture, Isiagu, in Enugwu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, 71 of them were given scholarships by Honourable Dozie Nwankwo, a member of the National Assembly representing Njikoka, Anaocha and Dunukofia Federal Constituency of […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has banned universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria from sales of admission forms into distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich and other programmes run by the Institutions. It said henceforth, all admissions to the various programmes in the nation’s higher institutions must be processed through the board. The ban […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has strongly disagreed with the Federal Government’s plan to make the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) responsible for payment of the proposed N75,000 and N50, 000 bursary allowances per semester to students who are studying education courses in public universities and colleges of education in the country, respectively. […]
