THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has asked the National Assembly to enact a law that will make it mandatory for the public office holders to send their children to public schools in the country. ASUU has also commended the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige for demonstrating an uncommon faith in […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed displeasure over what it describes as a slow pace in the implementation of the Memorandum of Agreement it reached with the Federal Government last year. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke expressed the union’s displeasure on Thursday during a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, […]
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) of the University of Ibadan, Professor Kayode Adebowale, has been announced as the new Vice Chancellor of the university. Chairman, Governing council, University of Ibadan, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, made the announcement around 8:00 p.m. on Thursday at the Senate chambers of the university. Odigie-Oyegun said Adebowale emerged winner at the conclusion […]
A 35-year-old man, Abidemi Oluwaseun has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for hiring thugs to attack a teacher for beating his 15-year-old daughter. Oluwaseun reportedly invaded Baptist Girls College, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta with two thugs on Tuesday to attack a teacher who he accused of beating his daughter. The Police Public […]
A 14-year-old, Miss Dorcas Joshua, on Monday, assumed duties as a One Day Minister of State for Education, calling for more investment in education in the country. Minister of State for Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, relinquished his office for a day to Joshua, a Junior Secondary School (JSS3) student of Government Day Junior Secondary School, […]
The Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen has charged school administrators across the country to stop shaming, ridiculing or expelling girl-child from school for being pregnant out of rape, saying this will no longer be acceptable. Tallen gave the charge at the press briefing which held weekend in Abuja, to mark the International Day […]
The polytechnic lecturers in the country have resolved to down tools any moment from now should the Federal Government not act fast in releasing the agreed N15 billion as revitalisation funds into the nation’s public polytechnics. The lecturers said they would not give any warning strike again before going into total and indefinite industrial action […]
Tanzanian novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah, has said it is “brilliant and wonderful” to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.” The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m/£840,000). Gurnah, […]
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has deplored the non-payment of the basic salary by some state governments since the National Minimum Wage Act was signed into law in 2018. It warned that members nationwide would be directed to withdraw their services if the issues are not urgently addressed. In remarks to mark the 2021 […]
The Federal Government has approved the sum of N75,000 as a stipend per semester for students undergoing degree programmes in Education in public universities in Nigeria, The Punch is reporting. Also, the Nigeria Certificate in Education students will get N50,000 as a stipend per semester as part of the deliberate effort of the goverment to […]
