Babalola, in a statement signed by him and which was made available to our correspondent on Thursday, said the shift was also affecting the admission plans of tertiary institutions

By Adesina Wahab When university teachers went on strike from March to December last year and when non-teaching staff in the same sector also embarked on strike early this year, the issue of Earned Academic Allowance was prominent among their demands. The teaching staff are under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has distanced itself from the appointment of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, as a Professor at the Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Owerri.

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City THE Vice Chancellor, University of Benin, Professor Lilian Salami Monday said the school had graduated 17,517 students in two seasons which was slowed down by the global COVID-19 pandemic and has also granted ‘amnesty’ to 500 students who had overstayed in the school for several reasons. Briefing journalists at […]

The management of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has assured lecturers, staff and students of the institution of their safety while carrying out their lawful duties. This is contained in a statement signed by Dr Fola Olowoleni, the Registrar of the university, and made available to the newsmen on Monday in Illorin. Reacting to the assault […]

Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has appointed a seven-man Board of Arabic Education comprising of top Islamic scholars, academics and community leaders

The Board of Trustees of the Pan-Atlantic University Foundation has appointed Professor Enase Okonedo as the new Vice-Chancellor of Pan-Atlantic University.

Reputed professor of African history and Diaspora studies, Toyin Falola has bagged the Federal University of Lokoja’s (FUL) doctoral degree award. The renowned professor was conferred the Ph.D. degree as part of the programme to mark the fifth convocation of the university where 14 students bagged first-class degrees, 188 students bagged second class upper degrees, […]

Winners of the maiden edition of Bookathon Science Fair, emerged at a grand event held at Christ Embassy Auditorium, Ajah, Lagos

The Executive Chairman, Kebbi State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Professor Sulaiman Khalid, has said that sustained advocacy in the rural areas of the state and in collaboration with UNICEF, CSO and NGOs, returned 86,000 out-of-school children tothe classroom.

The non-teaching staff in University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) under the aegis of Joint Action Committe (JAC) on Thursday staged a peaceful protest demanding arrears of minimum wage and earned allowances

By Bashir Bello – Kano Officials of the Bayero University, Kano, BUK has set up a committee to investigate a mass failure of students in some courses in the institution. The University’s 393rd Senate meeting held on Wednesday approved the setting up of the committee. The statement containing the decision and uploaded on the institution’s […]

Although the one-week mid-term break given to schools by the Lagos State Government has come and gone, the controversy it raised among stakeholders in the sector is still subsisting.

Toyin Falola, eminent Professor of History and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, the University of Texas at Austin, has decried the impacts of terrorism and the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigeria in particular, and Africa, in general. This formed the thrust of the fifth convocation lecture of the Federal University Lokoja, […]

The Federal University of Technology, Minna, on Wednesday, matriculated 4,706 students into its various programmes for the 2021/2022 session. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Bala said the ceremony marked the formal enrolment of the matriculating students into the university’s academic programmes and the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. He further said that […]