Education
1.6 Million Candidates To Sit For 2023 UTME
The PUNCH reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has kickstarted the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination nationwide. Data obtained from the examination body revealed that close to 1.6 million candidates across over 700 centres are expected to take the examination which will come to an end on May…
Read More »ASUU: No work, no pay, FG insists
Minister for Education insists that the government would not go back on the no work, no pay policy. The Federal Government has insisted that the “No work, No pay” policy for university lecturers would not be deviated from. This was revealed by the Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu during a…
Read More »WAEC Launches Digital Certificate
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed it now offers digital certificate. The certificate is the electronic version of the physical paper certificate, according to WAEC’S Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, who spoke at the launch in Lagos on Thursday. He said the development is in line with the…
Read More »ASUU Strike: FUTA Announces Resumption Date
The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has announced a resumption date for continuation of the 2020/2021 Academic session. This was confirmed in a statement on Thursday by FUTA Registrar, Richard Arifalo. Lectures leading to the completion of the First Semester would resume on Monday; students are expected on campus…
Read More »ASUU STRIKE: ASUU reveals the real reason for calling off strike
After exactly eight months, academic activities in Tertiary Institutions are set to resume. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called off its eight-month-old strike, after a meeting with government officials on Thursday. The National Executive Council meeting, which was held at the ASUU Secretariat in Abuja till the…
Read More »ASUU to sue FG over the registration of CONUA and NAMDA
The union insists that two or more unions cannot co-exist together in the same sector. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that it is approaching the National Industrial Court (NIC) over the Federal Government’s registration of two other academic unions in the country. On Tuesday, the Federal…
Read More »FG approves ASUU faction, CONUA, as academic union
ASUU may cease to be the ruling body of varsities in Nigeria as things stand. The Nigerian government is set to present a certificate of registration to the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), which could see them become a replacement for ASUU. CONUA, which is a breakaway faction of…
Read More »FG to present certificate of registration to breakaway ASUU faction to CONUA
The Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities led by Niyi Sunmonu, a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, will be receiving a certificate of registration from the Federal Government today, October 4. Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige…
Read More »ASUU Strike: Court orders the union to call-off strike and return to classrooms
Academic activities in the country has been shut down for over seven months since the strike started. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off the strike and return to classes. The Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on…
Read More »ASUU strike: Students to block Abuja airport and Kaduna-Abuja expressway today
Members of the National Association of Nigerian Students have said they will be blocking the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway today, Wednesday, September 21, as they protest the lingering strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Recall that on Monday, September 19, the aggrieved students also blocked the…
Read More »IMSU Pulls Out of ASUU Strike
Imo State University, Owerri has asked staff and students to resume on Tuesday, September 20. The comes after the university announced that it has pulled out of the six-month-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Public Relations Officer of the varsity, Ralph Njoku, confirmed this to…
Read More »ASUU Strike: Buhari Can’t Understand The Plight Of Students Because He Never Attended University – Sowore (Video)
AAC Presidential Candidate, Omoyele Sowore has revealed why President Muhammadu Buhari feels unconcerned as students languish in their homes due to strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Sowore spoke at the protest held by National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) near Lagos Airport on Monday. The students protesting…
Read More »Two Winners Announced For NLNG’s $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Science
Two winners have won this year’s Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) Nigeria Prize for Science award worth $100,000. According to NAN, Prof. Barth Nnaji, a former Minister of Power and Chairperson of the Advisory Board for the prize made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday.…
Read More »ASUU STRIKE: Travellers stranded as protesting students block Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
The students express their displeasure at the lingering strike which is now seven months old. Travellers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were left stranded today after students from under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (South-West Zone) stormed the highway to express their displeasure at the ongoing ASUU…
Read More »ASUU Strike: Businesses Around Universities Grounded, Owners Count Losses
The ongoing ASUU strike has brought many businesses in university towns to a halt. According to Daily Post, Mega Screen, a once bubbling area at the temporary site of the University of Abuja is currently like a ghost town, it has been like that since February. The students, who are…
Read More »Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu Reveals Only Thing Stopping ASUU From Calling Off Strike
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has revealed the only issue stopping the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU from calling off its strike. He said the issue is the law on “No work, No pay.” Adamu disclosed this to reporters on Tuesday at a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of Federal…
Read More »ASUU Strike: FG Announces 23.5% Salary Increment For Lecturers
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has revealed that the federal government may consider 23.5 percent salary increase for lecturers and a 35% increment for professors. According to Punch, Adamu made the revelation on Tuesday. The minister also noted that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) warned against signing…
Read More »Buhari sets up committee to look into ASUU’s demands
The committee is expected to look into ASUU demands and areas where there seems to be no concensus between the parties involved. President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a committee to look into the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. This was revealed by the Nigerian Minister…
Read More »ASUU Strike: Committee of VCs Recommend N800,000 Salary For Professors
The federal government has been urged to pay university professors N800,000 as against the N1.2 million negotiated by the Nimi Briggs committee. The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) made the recommendation during a meeting with the federal government on Tuesday. This will represent a 50% salary increase…
Read More »ASUU Strike: Kaduna varsity orders lecturers to resume work or face sanctions
The management of Kaduna State University has ordered the institution’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to resume work or face sanctions. In a circular signed by the university’s Registrar, Samuel Manshop, on Monday September 5, the university said it would be forced to invoke Section 2(2) of the…
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