By Adesina Wahab THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described the agitations by some individuals and groups that indigenes of towns where universities are sited be made the vice chancellors of such universities as reducing the institutions to local entities. The union, through the National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in a chat with […]

A Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun on Wednesday ordered a 40-year-old housewife, Biola Joshua, to sweep Iju-Ebiye High School premises for six months for invading her son ‘s school with thugs. The police charged Joshua with conspiracy, assault and breach of peace. Delivering a ruling, Magistrate Shotunde Shotayo ordered the convict to sweep the school […]

The Leadership of the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has expressed deep concern over reports that Comr. Akinsuyi Samuel, a business administration student of Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Oyo State was shot by a trigger-happy officer of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Oyo State command. Samuel was allegedly shot while on his way […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo –Olu has appointed acting Vice-Chancellors for the two newly established universities; Lagos State University of Science and Technology, LASUST, Ikorodu and Lagos State University of Education, LASUED, Ijanikin and Epe.

…Says if our varsities are okay, people won’t go to Ukraine, others Inauguration goes ahead – FG By Adesina Wahab As the Federal Government is set to inaugurate a team to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the union has said the government is on its own […]

OVER 500,000 tertiary institutions admission seekers have so far registered to sit for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said.

Ekiti State Government has cautioned private school owners in the state against patronising touts in payment for their schools’ registration and renewal fees. The government gave the warning in a statement issued from the office of the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Olabimpe Aderiye, on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti. According to the statement, payment […]

A lecturer at the Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Yunus Adeleke Dauda, has called for the setting up of Science and Innovation Centres in all universities in Nigeria if the county would not be left behind in the giant strides being made in the areas of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and others currently dictating global trends.

THE Trade Union Congress, TUC, has expressed solidarity with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The Federal Government plans to release N15b for the revitalisation of facilities in its polytechnics. Acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr David Gender, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday at a retreat for Chairmen of Governing Councils and Principal Officers of Federal Polytechnics. He spoke as a representative of the Minister of […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mock examination will now hold on April 9, and not April 16 as earlier scheduled.

“We wish to make it public that till date, except for constitution of Visitation Panels which white papers are yet to see the light of the day, none of the issues as agreed in the October 2020 and February 2021 Memorandum of Action have been implemented.”

Some Nigerians on Friday in Abuja had called on the Federal Government to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the lecturers ongoing strike. They made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). They told NAN that the incessant strike was not good for […]

THE Federal Government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will meet on Tuesday to find an amicable solution to the contentious issues that made the university teachers down tools.

The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS)/has issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve its disagreement with the Academic Staff Union of University ASUU or face a national mass action by all Nigerian students across the country.