School resumption: Parents lament as fees go up 40%
As primary and secondary schools reopen across the country today parents and guardians are going to contend with paying higher school fees, as most private schools have increased fees by between 30 and 40 per cent, checks by Vanguard have shown.
Poly Students Back FG: Twitter not bigger than Nigeria
The National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, has thrown its weight behind the decision of the Federal Government to place a ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria.
Senate passes bill to end discrimination between first degree, HND holders
The Senate has passed a bill that prohibits employers in the country from discriminating between first degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) holders. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the JointCommittee on Establishment and Public Service Matters; and TertiaryInstitutions and TETFUND. Chairman of the Joint Committee, Ibrahim Shekarau (APC, Kano […]
Kaduna University students protest against shut down of institution’s gates
Some students of the Kaduna State University (KASU) on Monday staged a protest against the alleged shutting down of the institute’s gates by its authorities. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited the university, reports that all gates into the university were shut with only staffs and medical students allowed entrance. […]
2020 WASSCE/BECE Exams: Lagos slams N13.5m fine against 27 schools over malpractice, sanctions 19 others
Lagos State Government has fined 27 schools, names withheld, indicted by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) for general examination malpractice the sum of N13.5 million.
Strike: ASUU-AKSU defies No work, no pay’ directive, refuses to resume
By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Akwa Ibom State University, AKSU, branch has defied the directive to return to the classroom as payment of salaries from the month of June 2021 will be based on the “no work no pay” policy. The lecturers at the State-owned University had embarked on […]
Diamond anniversary: OAU’s VC urges thanksgiving
Prof. Eyitope Ogunbode, Vice -Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has urged the university community to give thanks to God for His mercy since inception of the institution in 1961 till date.
We want security in our schools – NAPTAN
Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, the Deputy National President of National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN), says there is need for the government to improve security in schools across the country. Ogunbanjo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday attributed the incidents of kidnapping in some schools to poor […]
Number of Nigerians studying in US increased by 93% in 10 years — Erudera.com
Erudera.com, a higher education search platform, has said the number of Nigerians studying in the United States of America increased by about 93 per cent in the last 10 years. According to Gent Ukëhajdaraj from Erudera, what the 93% increase meant was that from 2015/16 to 2019/20, the number of these students increased by 28 […]
NECO appoints Ebikibina Ogborodi as acting Registrar
‘The Circular explained that Mr. Ogborodi’s appointment was as a result of his being the most Senior Director in the Council.
New retirement age: Teachers in Police schools lament exclusion, accuse CP FEO of undermining Buhari, IGP
The fate of hundreds of teachers in Police primary and secondary schools across the country is currently hanging in the balance, following the uncertainty over the implementation of Federal Government’s new retirement age for teachers. In a review of the retirement policy for teachers, the FG last year announced the extension of their retirement age […]
UNN manufactures anti-COVID-19 digital machine
By Ikechukwu Odu – Nsukka The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, has launched a contactless digital hand-cleaning machine that uses sensor to monitor body temperature, dispenses hand sanitizer, detergent and water. Inspecting the equipment produced by the institution’s faculty of Engineering, the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Charles Igwe, said that the machine was an […]
IPPIS: ASUU insists on reversal of appointment, promotion during strike
By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded the reversal of all appointments and promotions carried out during the ongoing strike which began a few weeks ago. It also directed new members who have just been appointed to reject the controversial Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The union, […]
Kudos, knocks as JAMB completes conduct of 2020 UTME
By Elizabeth Osayande A week into the conduct of the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, many parents and their wards raised concern over the preparedness of the Board to conduct the examinations. With over 1.9 million registered candidates, as against the 2019 figure of over 1.8 […]
OUR MOTHER TONGUE AND THEIR MURDERED TONGUE: The Nigerian Linguistic Landscape
English has become the language of the home among many Nigerians. It is even a taboo in some homes to speak an indigenous language. In the end, we have hybrids who neither speak their indigenous languages with pride nor speak the borrowed language with finesse.
The Reality of Life in Advanced Grammar: An Insight into Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M.A.K.) Halliday’s Functional Linguistics
Ganiu Bamgbose(Ph.D.) relates M.A.K. Halliday’s functionalist principles of grammar to the reality of life as sets of options from which choices can be made.
