By Marie-Therese Nanlong – Jos Following the engagement with all stakeholders and setting up mechanisms for observing the COVID-19 protocols, the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has directed the re-opening of all public and private primary and secondary schools across the state from 30th October 2020. By this directive, the Governor’s Director of Press and […]

…As non Varsity teaching staff reject UTAS By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Federal Government Thursday lamented that the continuous closure of Nigerian Universities as a result of the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS has contributed to the ongoing #EndSARS protest. The […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Students of universities in Benue state under the aegis of concerned Benue State Students, Wednesday staged a peaceful protest in Makurdi, the state capital over the prolonged federal government/Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, face off. The aggrieved students who urged the federal government to meet the demands of the […]

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic Bida chapter, has faulted the plan by the management of the institution to sack three leaders of the union, despite a court order stopping such an action.

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.