LAGOS- Following the two-day joint meeting held by the National executives of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Non-academic Staff Union, NASU and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, with the Federal Government, the unions have threatened to embark on a comprehensive strike, if the government fails to meet core areas of their demands in 30 days.

Phase 2 of the Live Learn Laugh initiative, a global partnership project between Federation Dental International, FDI, Unilever Oral Care and the Nigerian Dental Association, NDA, has been launched in Lagos with the aim of raising awareness of oral health worldwide among school children, students and adult population.

With the advent of increasing technology around the globe, the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has raised alarm over the declining number of graduates in Science and Technology in the country’s institutions.

EPE- Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has charged graduates of the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), Noforija, Epe, Lagos, to apply all they have learnt to the society and to remain good and worthy products of their alma mater.

Minister of Education, Prof Ruquayattu Ahmed Rufa’i has urged students in the nation’s tertiary institution to shun cultism and other social vices, saying the increasing wave of students cultism, examination malpractices among others have become a source of concern to the Federal Government.

THE 10th Matriculation Ceremony of Covenant University, Canaan Land, Ota, for 2011/2012 Academic Session Undergraduate/Postgraduate Degree Programmes was held last Friday (25th of November, 2011) inside the exquisite University Chapel, in a thrilling and inspirational atmosphere watched by special guests, parents, guardians, well-wishers, friends and relations of all matriculating students.

GOVERNOR Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State stole the show at the 27th convocation ceremony of Yaba College of Technology as traditional dancers displayed magnificently to the applause of the massive audience as he was conferred with honorary fellowship of the college.

THE National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the federal government start implementing the 26 percent budgetary allocation to education as recommended by UNESCO which Nigeria is a signatory.

THE National Universities Commission, NUC, facts-finding team on the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Effurun, Delta State, led by Prof Alhassan Bichi has found out that despite all the money pumped into the institution by the Federal Government, none of its academic programmes could be accredited.

THE on-going strike of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities across the country has disrupted examinations of some doctoral students of the University of Ibadan.

THE indefinite strike action ordered by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU was complied with by the local chapter of the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State thereby paralyzing academic activities on campus.

TROJAN Educational Consult, a dynamic educational consulting firm, has entered into a ‘unique’ Phonics partnership with two of the best schools in the Alapere-Ketu area of Lagos State: Skevic Graceland Nursery and Primary school and Amazing Grace Nursery and Primary school.