According to Webometrics, a respected authority in the ranking of universities globally, no Nigerian university is in the top 1,000 in the world. In fact, the highest ranked Nigerian university, the University of Ibadan, is placed 1,258 globally and number 18 on the continent of Africa, far behind universities from South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. This is not a compliment for a country touted as the giant of Africa and the enormous resources it has been endowed with. 

A book, ‘Varsity Guard’, which aims to help students in tertiary institutions to excel in their chosen career and also not fall victims of some costly errors that can truncate their studies, has hit the market.

By Dayo Johnson – Akure Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has directed that all schools in the state should reopen on October 19th, after over six months break following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Speaking with newsmen in Akure, the governor said that primary, secondary schools and tertiary institutions in the state […]

By Adesina Wahab In line with the dictates of the time, especially the new normal foisted on the education sector by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Lagos State University, LASU Ojo, has started conducting exams online as well as PhD post-field activities, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, has said. Fagbohun, while speaking during the matriculation […]

By Ozioruva Aliu, Benin-City Governor Godwin Obaseki yesterday said his administration is planning to hand over some government owned schools to Missions and other private persons that would be interested in developing such schools. The government gave this hint at the occasion of the 60th Founder’s day anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima College, Auchi […]

By Henry Umoru STRONG Indications have emerged that the Federal Government may at the end of the day,  accept demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU by  jettisoning and the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS and accepting tthe University Transparency Account System(UTAS) payment platform developed by the University Lecturers. According to […]

By Tordue Salem – Abuja The House of Representatives will today, meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU as part of efforts to end the ongoing strike by the body of University academics. The university teachers are in a battle with the Federal Government, over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS. […]

By Ndahi Marama – Maiduguri 776 newly-recruited teachers will join Borno’s secondary schools on November 1, 2020, less than three weeks from now, governor Babagana Umara Zulum has disclosed. The Governor made this known on Tuesday in Maiduguri after a meeting with commissioners of the State’s Ministries of Higher Education, Senior Secondary Education, and chairman, […]

**Polytechnics lack support to meet Covid-19 protocols for resumption – ASUP By Joseph Erunke – Abuja In a fresh bid to avert a planned nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP,  the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, and executive members of the union met Tuesday, in Abuja. ASUP delegation was […]

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio – Yenogoa The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has shut down seven examination centres across Bayelsa State for violating its rules and regulations for examination. According to available data, the closure of the centres leaves Bayelsa state with only four centres to cater for about 24,000 candidates. The […]

By Bashir Bello – Kano Kano State government has announced 26th October 2020 for re-opening of the state-owned tertiary institutions after seven months of closure occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. The State Commissioner of Higher Education, Dr Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in the state on Monday. This was coming as […]

By Ola Ajayi, Ibadan Students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan shut all the gates leading to the institution to protest inability to register for the examination that was earlier fixed for Monday. All workers both academic and non-academic were prevented from gaining entry into the campus. When Vanguard visited the institution, all the gates were locked […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja The Senate has intervened between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS quagmire, saying that the Government should not go into any agreement it cannot implement. According to the Senate, it was disturbing and worrisome  that the Federal […]

…as strike stalls resumption of universities By Adesina Wahab The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it will soon expose those feeding fat on the adoption of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, by the Federal Government as its payment platform. This is just as the union alleged that some people […]

Striking university teachers say they are not affected by President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that only federal workers on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) would be paid salaries. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, President of, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), made the claim in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja. Buhari, while presenting the […]