Category: Education

  • Nigeria Needs More Than 205 Universities To Meet Demand For Higher Education — NUC

    Nigeria Needs More Than 205 Universities To Meet Demand For Higher Education — NUC

      Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, says the number of universities in Nigeria cannot meet the present demand for higher education in the country. He said this in Abuja Tuesday while presenting operational licences for two new universities to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, bringing the total number of universities in…

  • How ABSU Banned Students From Use Of Private Cars In Campus Over ‘Yahoo Boys’

    How ABSU Banned Students From Use Of Private Cars In Campus Over ‘Yahoo Boys’

      The management of the Abia State University Uturu, ABSU, has banned students from driving private vehicles on campus. The ban was contained in a press statement issued Tuesday by the Registrar, Dr. Acho Elendu. The action is believed to be part of efforts to avoid an ostentatious show of affluence or flagrance display of…

  • We’ve resumed 2nd Semester with 240 Students and necessary NUC approval… CUSTEC Vice Chancellor  As Forum of Special Advisers visit institution

    We’ve resumed 2nd Semester with 240 Students and necessary NUC approval… CUSTEC Vice Chancellor As Forum of Special Advisers visit institution

    The Vice Chancellor of the recently created Confluence University of Science and Technology, Professor Salau Sadiku has commended the Governor of Kogi State, Alh Yahaya Bello for his visionary leadership that has made the institution admit two hundred and forty students under nine months of kick-start of administration of the university. He made the remarks…

  • PLTEAU POLY STUDENT PROTEST LECTURERES STRIKE

    PLTEAU POLY STUDENT PROTEST LECTURERES STRIKE

    The Students of Plateau State Polytechnic Jos Campus on Monday staged a peaceful protest over the postponement of their semester examinations by the school authorities. The students trooped out in large numbers and blocked the Yakubu Gowon way, a major highway leading into and out of Jos. There was a heavy presence of armed security…

  • UNIBEN SENATE OKAYS REMOVAL OF N20,000 FEE, LECTURES RESUME SEPT 20

    UNIBEN SENATE OKAYS REMOVAL OF N20,000 FEE, LECTURES RESUME SEPT 20

    The University of Benin (UNIBEN) Senate council has approved the removal of the N20,000 late registration fee that led to a two-day mass protest by students of the institution. The University was subsequently bolted as event threatened to boil over. Ademola Bobola, Registrar of the University, announced the removal of the fee in a statement…

  • UNIBEN SHUTS DOWN CAMPUSES AS PROTEST PERSIST

    UNIBEN SHUTS DOWN CAMPUSES AS PROTEST PERSIST

    UNIBEN SHUTS DOWN CAMPUSES AS PROTEST PERSIST Alanza Giwa, Abuja The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Lilian Salami, has ordered students to vacate the school premises before 12pm on Wednesday following the protest that rocked the institution on Tuesday. The Students of the institute had yesterday, blocked the ever-busy Benin-Lagos Expressway and the…

  • ASUU STRIKE LOOMS FOLLOWING FG PLAN TO REMOVE 3,000 STAFF FROM PAYROLL

    ASUU STRIKE LOOMS FOLLOWING FG PLAN TO REMOVE 3,000 STAFF FROM PAYROLL

      The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, (SSANU), has advised the Federal Government to withdraw the circular directing that workers of the Staff schools should not be captured in the 2022 budget. The President of SSANU, Mr Mohammed Haruna, gave the advice while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja He threatened that the…

  • Osun Shuts 600 Illegal Private Schools

    Osun Shuts 600 Illegal Private Schools

    The Osun State Government has said it closed about 600 private schools, especially primary schools that do not meet   the state’s minimum standard requirements. Speaking during the Inter-ministerial Press briefing held at State Secretariat, Abere, the Education Commissioner, Folorunsho Bamisayemi, said the closure was part of the government’s effort to ensure sanity in the education…

  • FG approves scholarships for 4 children of corps member killed during 2011 post-election violence

    FG approves scholarships for 4 children of corps member killed during 2011 post-election violence

    Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Sunday Dare, has announced President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of appropriate scholarships to four children of late Mr Adowei Elliot, a Youth corps member killed during the 2011 post-election violence in Bauchi state. ExAk9kpTURBXy9iYjAwODAzYTg5MWFiOGI4YTk3ZDU0YjIzYjZhZGJiZS5qcGeSlQMAAM0FAM0C0JMFzQKAzQFAgaEwBQ.webp Buhari, he added, had also approved the employment of 10 direct siblings of other corps members…

  • KIDNAPPED UNIJOS LECTURER REGAINS FREEDOM

    KIDNAPPED UNIJOS LECTURER REGAINS FREEDOM

    The kidnapped University of Jos Senior Lecture, Dr Dan Ella, has regained his freedom. It was learnt that Ella was picked up on Thursday night along Jos-Bauchi Road after his abductors released him. The University don with the Department of Theatre Arts in the institution was abducted in the early hours of Wednesday by gunmen…