…233,000 candidates affected by #EndSARS protests By Wole Mosadomi & Joseph Erunke The National Examinations Council, NECO, yesterday released the Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE, results with a 2.3 per cent increase in the number of candidates who scored five credits and above, including English and Mathematics. The Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof […]

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has inaugurated the COVID-19 Taskforce Central team for the institution under the leadership of Dr Kingsley Akaba. Other members of the team include Dr Paul Odey of the faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Dr Leku Odey, Director of Health Services, and Dr Alexander Peter, Public […]

The Edo chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed primary school teachers across the state to embark on an indefinite strike from Jan. 18. The directive is contained in a communiqué jointly signed by the union’s state Chairman and Assistant Secretary-General, Pius Okhueleigbe and Moni Itua respectively, and made available to newsmen […]

Say VCs have plans to put COVID-19 guidelines in place Some Vice-Chancellors of universities under Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have said that it was wrong for ASUU to claim that there were no COVID-19 guidelines for reopening Universities. ASUU, haven called off 9-month strike insisted that Nigerian universities were not ready to re-open […]

University of Lagos, Wednesday announced its resumption date. Mrs Olufadeke Akinleye, Head of the Media Unit of the university said the institution would commence online classes on January 25 due to the second wave of COVID-19. University of Jos, on the other hand would resume on Friday 22nd January 2021. Disclosing this in a statement […]

University of Jos, Wednesday announced the date for school resumption. A statement signed by it’s Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications, Abdullahi Abdullahi, said that UNIJOS is expected to resume on Friday 22nd January 2021. His statement reads: “The Senate of the University of Jos has considered and approved an amended Academic Calendar for 2019/2020 Session […]

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) results with a 2.3 per cent increase in the number of candidates who scored five credits and above, including English and Mathematics. The Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof.  Godswill Obioma, announced the results at the council’s headquarters in Minna on […]

…We’re ready for resumption Jan 18 – VCs …Why we’re against re-opening of varsities amid pandemic – ASUU By James Ogunnaike Vice Chancellors of some federal and state universities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, were at daggers drawn yesterday over resumption of universities in the face of the second wave of COVID-19 […]

By Adesina Wahab, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Joseph Erunke, Ozioruva Aliu and Demola Akinyemi Non-aca- demic staff in the nation’s universities yesterday asked the Federal Government to sack Education Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu, and his Labour and Employment counterpart, Chris Ngige, for supporting the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who they alleged of scheming to cheat […]

THE Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, in the University of Abuja, staged a peaceful protest Tuesday, to draw attention to what they referred to as federal government’s injustice to them.

…Unions vow varsities won’t reopen unless… …Want Adamu, Ngige sacked By Adesina Wahab, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Joseph Erunke, Ozioruva Aliu and Demola Akinyemi Non-academic staff on Tuesday in nationwide protests said universities in the country would not reopen unless the governments do away with the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, address the issue […]

***Unions vow varsities won’t reopen unless… ***Want Adamu, Ngige sacked By Adesina Wahab, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Joseph Erunke, Ozioruva Aliu and Demola Akinyemi Non-academic staff on Tuesday in nationwide protests said universities in the country would not reopen unless the government do away with the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, address the issue […]

*Urges churches to form action committees By Vincent Ujumadu – Awka Following the upsurge of coronavirus pandemic in Anambra State, Governor Willie Obiano has announced the postponement of resumption of schools in the state by two weeks. In a statewide broadcast, Governor Obiano said the decision became necessary because the second wave of the pandemic […]

By Demola Akinyemi Members of the Non Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), University of Ilorin chapters, Tuesday staged a peaceful protest in compliance with the directive of the national leadership of the union to embark on three day protest over alleged insensitivity of the federal government to their demands. The members […]

By Ikechukwu Odu The Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, chapter, Tuesday, joined their peers nationwide on a three-day protest over failure of the Federal Government to honour 2009 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU it reached with […]