The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has urged the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to remain calm in view of their latest outcry over the reported half payment of their salaries by the federal government. In a statement he personally ...

The Federal Government has commenced payment of the 8-month salary backlog to some lecturers who are members of Congress of University Academics (CONUA), the breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).Daily Trust reports that this development is coming as members of ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and the acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh to immediately reverse the apparently illegal deductions from the ...

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has inaugurated a committee to tackle the crisis rocking the state-owned Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University a few weeks after receiving the report of the visitation panel.Masari, while inaugurating the committee at the Government House, urged its members to ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Gombe State University chapter, has said it will withhold the examination results of students and will discontinue the supervision of undergraduates and postgraduates projects should the government fail to release the withheld salaries for members of the ...

Following Federal Government’s decision to pay half salaries to lecturers, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council.According to The Punch, the date for the meeting has not yet been fixed.The lecturers had tackled the ...

The Federal Government only paid lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities for 18 working days in the month of October, The PUNCH has exclusively gathered.Lecturers and senior members of ASUU, who spoke to our correspondent under strict confidence noted that the ...

BrainersNG Partners Youth Development Center, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library For 2022 Virtual Scholarship CompetitionCompetition–based tests have been shown to have correlative relationship with better learning. More importantly when a student’s performance after a competition-based test is ...

The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has approved N1,082,146,300 for the payment of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) fees for 59,280 candidates in the state.The money is to be paid to the West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO), ...

The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) yesterday engaged students in Ogun State on the need to promote different cultural expressions in Africa using digital technology.To this end, the organisation, through its Institute for African Culture and International ...

RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY NKPOLU-OROWORUKWO, PORT HARCOURTINTERNAL MEMORANDUM FROM:Registrar/Secretary to Senate TO: President of SUG, All StudentsBan on Indecent Dressing by Students on CampI am directed to inform you that Senate has banned indecent dressing by students on campus with immediate ...

By Udora Orizu and Juliet Akoje:The Acting Accountant General of the Federation, Silvia Okoliaboh yesterday gave a timeline of three months within which the government would sit down with a committee set up by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and resolve all issues in the expected ...

When one values something, it is evident in the degree of commitment that is noticeable from one’s engagement with the thing. For the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, tertiary education in Nigeria is a precious thing. This became very obvious when he struggled against the ...

By James Sowole:The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that some universities in Nigeria are engulfed in crises because their vice-chancellors (VCs) regard themselves as the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of their schools. The ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, stated ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e79Ruhfutg In a bid to secure their future and give them decent living, a 24-year-old Accounting student of University of Abuja, Queen Obiamaka Enweluzor has sent twin orphans back to school in Abuja.The twins, Precious Ibrahim Nengak (female) and her brother ...

By Hammed Shittu:Following the suspension of the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the management of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has concluded arrangements for the resumption of academic activities  on Monday, October 24, 2022.This is as a result of ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has restated its opposition to federal government’s registration of two new university based unions – the Congress for Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and the Nigeria Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) – describing it as ...

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, yesterday, undertook a supervisory and interactive visit to Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, during which he approved the permanent recruitment of 20 children of staff, with priority to those whose parents died working at the school. The governor also ...

By Fidelis David:A Renowned Scientist and Vice-Chancellor of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Professor Olukayode Amund, yesterday said that the institution has commenced a research of local interest by converting waste banana stem into threads for weaving fabrics and carpets.Olukayode ...

Super Eagles Captain, Ahmed Musa, has taken his philanthropic gesture a notch higher, unveiling a  school, and then name it after his parents Mr. Musa and Mrs. Sarch. The school called M&S (Musa & Sarch) International School is located at Bukuru, Jos South LGA of Plateau State.The football ...

Princess Atika Ajanah donates Fully Equipped Crèche To Her Alma Mater Christ the King Nursery and Primary School OkenePopular event host, Princess Atika Ajanah has donated a fully furnished crèche to her alma mater, Christ the King Nursery and Primary School located in Okene, Kogi State.She said ...

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has said members of the body may find it difficult to get to their respective schools on Monday as they do not have “money for transport”.He disclosed this on Sunday while speaking about matters arising from ...

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has approved an increment of 100 per cent on bursary payable to students of  Lagos State origin in tertiary institutions across the country.The Executive Secretary, of Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mr Abdur Rahaman Lekki said in a statement on Sunday that the ...

By Segun James:As members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resume today after their eight-month-long industrial action over the state of educational facilities in the country, interim government campaigner and former presidential candidate, Rev Chris Okotie, has urged the federal ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdW-SIZr38MThe Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it called off its eight-month strike due to a court order and appeals from Nigerians.A court of appeal had ordered the striking lecturers to return to class after the National Industrial Court ruled ...

By Kuni Tyessi:The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Aishah Ahmad yesterday said the education gap between most states in the northern part of Nigeria and their southern counterparts portends grave danger for the country.Ahmad added that Nigeria “is ...

As Ngige Commends Reps Speaker, Gbajabiamila, Nigerians on their interventions.Says measures are in place not to allow such prolonged strike again.By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, AbujaThe Federal Government on Friday apologized to Nigerian students and parents over the prolonged strike embarked upon by the ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday called off its eight-month-old strike.However, the union in a press statement made available to The PUNCH noted that the issues in its disputes with the Federal Government were not well addressed.The press release, which was signed by the National ...

The University of Lagos is ranked first among Nigerian universities and 401-500th out of over 1,799 institutions across the world, the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings released on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 reveals.UNILAG is sharing the first spot with the University of ...

The federal government has budgeted N230.9‬ billion for 14 Nigerian federal universities in the 2023 budget, with University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) receiving the highest allocation.Brand Spur Nigeria understands that the N230.9‬ billion will be disbursed to University of Nigeria Nsukka, Obafemi ...

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday.The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday ...

By Laleye Dipo:The Niger State wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has decried the continued closure of primary and secondary schools in some local government areas in the state as a result if insecurity, saying the development will increase the number of out-of-school children in the ...

By James Sowole:Proffering suggestions on how to avoid another strike by university lecturers in the future, the outgoing Vice Chancellor of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Prof. Ganiu Olatunde, has advised the federal government to incorporate some of the features of ...

By Yinka Kolawole:Redeemer’s University, Ede, has disclosed that 635 undergraduates will graduate from the institution​ at its 14th convocation.During a pre-convocation press briefing at the institution, the​ Vice-Chancellor, Prof Anthony Akinlo,​ stated that 48​ bagged First Class honours ...

 UNN Final Year Student Wins N30m Star Prize At The Big Break Moment Africa 2022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVTYLPNHQIA final year student of the department of Theater and Film Studies, of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Joel Chibuzor Uzor Aka Joel Jonez has emerged the winner of the Big ...

The University of Calabar is set to resume academic activities after the nine months strike following the court order by the Appeal Court of Nigeria, this is according to a reliable source at the University.Last Friday, the court gave the order after dismissing the union’s application for a stay of ...

 The dream and vision of Evangelist Dr. Samuel Maduka Onyishi, the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of PEACE Group, comprising of the popular Peace Mass Transit, fleet of commercial buses, to extend his business empire into the education is speedily yielding result.Barely two years after ...

Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, says the union is optimistic of an end to its strike soon.He said this on Monday at a meeting with the leadership of the house of representatives.Also present at the meeting was Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of ...

One of the ills of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is the appointment of square pegs in round holes. A case in point was the appointment of Dr. Chris Ngige, a medical doctor, as the Minister of Labour and Employment.Since Ngige took charge of the ministry, he has not been able to ...

Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola (nee Mabogunje), a Nigerian Professor of medical microbiology has emerged as the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.She specializes in disease control, particularly HIV/AIDS. Ogunsola was provost of College of Medicine, University of Lagos and is ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has said it would review the judgement of the Appeal Court that ordered the union to end its strike, to determine its next line of action.DAILY POST had reported that the appeal court on Friday ordered the union to return to work as earlier ordered by ...

By Segun Awofadeji:No fewer than four outgoing members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) 2021, Batch C Stream 1, would repeat their service year in Bauchi State.This is as 27 others would have their service year extended for at least three weeks for misconducts during their service ...

By Segun AwofadejiThe Gombe State Governor, Mr. Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has declared that his administration recognised the pivotal role of teachers and teaching profession in societal development and would, therefore, ensure their welfare and proper training.  The World Teachers Day is marked ...

The court of appeal sitting in Abuja has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike.At the court session on Friday, the appellate court said ASUU should obey the order of an industrial court which directed the suspension of the strike before seeking to appeal the ...

To mark 2022 World Teachers’ Day, a foremost education intervention Non-Governmental Organization in Nigeria, Inoyo Toro Foundation, has called for increased recognition of teachers and the teaching profession, as a first step to getting things right in the country’s education sector.It said the ...

By Christian Appolos, Clement Idoko And Tunbosun Ogundare APPARENTLY to whittle down the influence of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and ensure that it no longer retains the power to cripple academic activities in Nigerian universities, the Federal Government, through the Minister ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the registration of two new trade unions by the government for academic staff in the university system is inconsequential and does not pose any threat to its existence.The National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this in a ...

By Deji Elumoye, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Kingsley Nwezeh, Udora Orizu and Kuni Tyessi:President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of involvement in endemic corruption in the education sector, alleging that corruption in the sector undermines federal ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:Federal government has formally registered two new university unions, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA).With the granting of registration to the two unions, Nigerian Universities now has three ...

By Deji Elumoye:President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday evening received the House of Representatives’ report on its intervention in the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), promising to study and meet the legislators again.Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon ...