By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta has distanced itself from a purported staff recruitment advertisement being circulated on various social media platforms. In a statement signed by the institution’s Registrar and Secretary to the Governing Council, Dr Bola Adekola, indicated that the purported advertisement did not emanate from […]

…We won’t resume till FG corrects imbalance in Earned Allowances, non- teaching varsity staff threaten …It appears Govt doesn’t want peace—SSANU …Govt shied away from its responsibility—NAPTAN …NANS clamours for students’ involvement in future negotiations By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Adesina Wahab  &  Joseph Erunke As the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, suspended its nine-month old […]

The High Powered Committee on Verification and Biometric Data Capture of Local Education Authority Staff in Borno has disclosed that 60 per cent of primary school teachers in the state lacked requisite teaching qualifications. The Chairman of the committee, Dr Shettima Kulima, made this known on Wednesday in Maiduguri while submitting the committee’s report to […]

By Adesina Wahab ON the night of April 14-15,  2014, final year secondary school girls, said to be 276 in number, were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents at the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. The girls were preparing for their West African Senior Secondary School Examination paper in Physics. Prior to the incident, […]

By Mary Obaebor AUGUSTINE University, Ilara-Epe, Lagos State has turned out its second set of graduating students.  Speaking on the occasion, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Christopher Odetunde, said five out of the 38 graduating students got first class degree, while 20 got Second Upper Class, 11 in the Second Lower Class and two with Third […]