FOR Africa to meet up with the rest of the world in terms of industrialization and job creation, universities on the continent must move to the level of becoming entrepreneurial in nature that will churn out graduates that will be job creators.

The Presidency yesterday debunked a report that tuition fees in the federal universities have been increased, saying there was no such thing.

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Academic activities at the Osun State Polytechnic were disrupted following protests by different unions in the school over the suspension of the school rector. The state government had in a letter dated July 11, 2023, signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, M. K. Jimoh, suspended the Rector, Dr Tajudeen […]

The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Benue State Wing, has given the State Government two days to pay all the arrears of the Consolidated Enhanced Allowances allegedly removed from their Payment Vouchers of May and June 2023 among others, or face a state-wide protest and eventual industrial action.

The Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Rasheed Na’Allah, has attributed increment in charges by the nation’s universities to the current economic challenges.

Osun State Government has suspended the Rector, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Dr Tajudeen Odetayo over alleged corruption.

The Dean of student affairs of the University of Ibadan, Professor Keye Abiona, has lent his voice to the call for increased funding for tertiary institutions across the country, saying that it was about time other stakeholders supported the government to address the seeming rot in the education sector.

Scholars have decried the lack of adequate funding for research works in Nigeria, describing it as a major impediment to scientific findings for national development.

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has charged the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to take proactive steps to rid schools in the state of cultism, drug abuse and other vices.

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has described the education sector under former President Muhammadu Buhari as catastrophic.

Parents, under the aegis of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have called on President Bola Tinubu to apply the brake to the spate of increments in tuition fees and others by government-owned schools.

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has described the education sector under former President Muhammadu Buhari as catastrophic.

Parents, under the aegis of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have called on President Bola Tinubu to apply the brake to the spate of increment in tuition and others fees by government-owned schools.

THE Chairman, Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mrs. Ozavize Salami said the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki decided to extend free and compulsory education to the Junior Secondary School (JSS) to ensure that an average Edo child that goes to school should be able to obtain a minimum training that gives the child skill for survival.

The University of Lagos has announced an adjustment in the obligatory fees for both returning and new students of the institution.