By Adesina Wahab ACADEMIC activities in the nation’s universities may be disrupted by the end of this month if the Federal Government is unable to implement the Memorandum of Action, MoA, it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Also, the government is expected to renegotiate the 2007 Agreement it entered into with […]

By Adesina Wahab THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has called for the setting up of an Education Bank that will provide interest-free loans to students in tertiary institutions so as to make funding education at that level convenient for all. He also advocated the setting up a Students Loan Scheme in […]

The Board of Promoters of the University of Kigali (UoK) has appointed Professor Robert E. Hinson, as the university’s acting vice-chancellor, effective 19 January, following the resignation of the substantive holder of the position. Hinson, a Ghanaian, is currently UoK’s deputy vice-chancellor (Academic). He started his academic career on 1 February 2003 as a lecturer […]

By Adesina Wahab Reprieve has come the way of the suspended Registrar of the Lagos State University, LASU,  Mr Olayinka Amuni, as the visitor to the university, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered that he be reinstated into office. A statement on Thursday night by the spokesman of LASU, Mr Ademola Adekoya, said Amuni would resume […]

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The Edo  State government said it has commenced the process of recruiting teaching fellows into the Edo Supporting Teachers to Achieve Results (EdoSTAR) Teaching Fellows Programme, for schools across the state’s 18 local government areas. In a statement, the state Commissioner for Education, Dr John Oviawe, called for suitably […]

Despite different measures put in place by the Ogun State government to curb the incessant attacks on teachers in its secondary schools, a student of Toyon High School, Ere, Ado-Odo, Joshua Joseph has hired thugs to attack his teachers

The Executive Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board, LASUBEB, Wahab Alawiye-King said the EkoExcel programme of the state government has indeed rescued a lot of children from engaging in various social vices in Lagos State since its inception.

The Management of the Plateau State University, PLASU, Bokkos has commended the local chapter of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities, NASU and National Association of Academic Technologists of Nigeria, NAAT for suspending the strike action it earlier embarked on.

The Federal Government’s embargo on employment has affected the smooth running of Federal Polytechnics in the country.

A post by a legal practitioner, Mrs. Helen Essien on an online platform,  Concerned Parents & Educators Network, CPE, run by renowned educationist, Mrs. Yinka Ogunde, asked for suggestions by members of the group if or not Dowen College should be reopened

THE Yuletide season is over as all official activities have returned to their normal schedules, and schools across Abuja, the nation’s capital, resumed this week.

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The Edo  State government has retired the Permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Education and the Post-Primary Education Board as well as the two principals of Idogbo Secondary School following the students’ rampage at the school on December 3, 2021. State  Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Andrew Emwanta, in a […]

No Fewer than 23 student of the Nasarawa state College of Education, Akwanga  have been  expelled  for examination malpractice during  the first semester examinations of the college

Academic Staff Union of Universities, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, has sought permission of its national leadership to embark on strike over the school management to pay its earned allowance

•CP Odumosu insists cause of death natural •Says  aggrieved persons should go to court;  Coroner Inquest begins today By Evelyn Usman Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, AIG Hakeem Odumosu, Friday, advised those who are not satisfied with the autopsy and toxicology reports on the late Sylvester Oromoni, to visit the Coroner Inquest which […]