Comrade Joshua Olakunle has been appointed the Director of West African Affairs of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS.

The Akin Fadeyi Foundation, AFF, with support from the MacArthur Foundation has carried out a sensitization workshop through The Be Safe Initiative in Bwari, Abuja with the theme: “Empowered to Create Safe Spaces Online and Beyond.”

As President Bola Tinubu marked his first year in office, a group, the Friends of Seyi Tinubu, FOST, has commended Seyi, the son of the President, for his commitment to the cause of the Nigerian youths.

The Federal Government has directed outgoing vice-chancellors in federal universities to nominate their deputies to temporarily serve as acting vice-chancellors.

The battle to succeed the outgoing Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof Charles Esimone may have been resolved by the National Universities Commission, NUC, which has directed outgoing Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities to hand over to the most senior  ranking Deputy Vice Chancellor.

So as to take advantage of being located in a state that is a gateway to the outside world, the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, has started a programme on Border and Migration Studies.

Five academic staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Tuesday, dragged the University to a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu over truncation of the tenure of subsisting internal members of the Governing Council of the University.

Some workers in the Federal College of Education, Technical, Akoka, Lagos on Monday protested the continued stay in office of the Provost, Dr Wahab Ademola Azeez.

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Mr Sunny Echono, has said due to the critical role the agency is playing in bridging funding gap and also providing critical infrastructure among other things in the nation’s tertiary institutions, it must not be allowed to become a victim of official corruption or mismanagement.

“We have received a lot of loan requests from students across the country. However, some institutions have not uploaded their students’ data on the NELFUND dashboard to enable us process the requests

The ongoing Vice Chancellor of University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Prof. Aliyu Shugaba, said they are executing a 12 megawatts power project to generate electricity for the institution and the University Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

The Acting Vice Chancellor of Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Dr. Samuel Akintunde, has called on alumni to always give back to their alma mater in a bid to assist government to reposition the education sector in the country.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it is not accepting the new Governing Councils constituted by the Federal Government for its public tertiary institutions, saying the union is for the return of the disbanded councils.

“We are to ensure that it is equitably and fairly done. FCC does not compromise merit and that is why whoever that is qualified is selected and given the opportunity at the end of the exercise. PTDF process is going on smoothly. The interviewers are doing an excellent jobs.”

Kaduna State University has appointed CeProd’s Maryam Abdu as the first finance professor.