Varsities Talk: Be Careful, Private Universities Can Fold Up: “I can’t validate anything like that because I just came to close down the school. I’m here to close the campus down; we are closing the school in 30 days. Academic programmes have since stopped”. Pete Sith, President Saint Paul’s College, …
ASUU Education Summit is Necessary — Educationists: Two good heads are better than one. This popular adage buttresses the fact that a conglomeration of truly intellectual minds is sure to bring about more results than the idea of one single individual. With the challenges the education sector has faced in …
Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie has lamented the dearth of admission spaces for the over one million students jostling for university education every year. He noted that although we have 50 private universities which complement the 79 public universities, admission spaces are still inadequate. Okojie who …
2014 UTME: JAMB Insists Not To Create More Centres for PPT: Towards the next Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination holding in April, stakeholders want the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to create more exam centres. But the board says ‘No’, CHARLES ABAH writes Stakeholders have appealed to the Joint Admissions and …
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has blamed the Vice-Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, over an attack on its members by the AAUA security operatives on Monday. The union claimed that two members of the union sustained injuries during the attack. Those who reportedly sustained …
FG Blasts State Governors For Refusing to Access N41Bn UBE Fund: The Federal Government, yesterday, blasted state governors for refusing to access the N41 billion counterpart fund for the implementation of Universal Basic Education, UBE, in their states. Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike, who expressed government’s disappointment at …
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, on Saturday condemned Thursday’s violent protest at the Lagos State University, LASU. Mr. Ikuforiji said steps would be taken to avoid a recurrence. Mr. Ikuforij spoke at the school premises when he led some other members of the house …
NDLEA Nabs 20-Year-Old Undergraduate Who Bought Cannabis With Tuition: A Nigerian undergraduate, who used his tuition fee to buy a hard drug, has been arrested for drug trafficking, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said in a statement, weekend. NDLEA said the suspect, Udiomeh Kufre Ita, a student of the …
Students of Federal University, Otuoke Protest Against Hike In Fees: Students of the newly established Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa, on Thursday paralysed the activities at the institution following a protest against alleged increase in school fees. The students, who barricaded roads leading to the Otuoke Community and the institution, described …
The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Mr. Emmanuel Chukwuka Ukala (SAN), has set up a scholarship fund for indigent students of the university, whose studentship would otherwise be truncated by financial difficulties. The scheme, which is worth 2 million naira annually, would run …
OAU Gets N1.2billion World Bank Grant to Build Knowledge Park: Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has won a N1.2billion World Bank grant for the building of a knowledge park targeted at boosting academic activities in Africa and beyond. According to the university’s public relations officer, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, …
LAGOS — Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, for the second day running, went on the rampage, yesterday, destroying the school’s property, burning tyres on the expressway and disrupting the second semester examinations. The students were disenchanted with the management of the school for closing the registration portal against …
Over 35 illegal schools have been shut down within Calabar and its environs, yet the growing number of such educational outlets has become a source of concern to the Cross River State Government, writes MUDIAGA AFFE It was the late Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who sang in one of …
The questions that you, the job seeker, ask in an interview can make or break your chances of getting hired. But many job seekers, new and old, make the rookie mistake of asking the questions below. Are you making that mistake? Don’t ask these questions during an interview: “Are You …
Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Dr. Oluranti Adebule has charged teachers in the state to always put in their best in the discharge of their duties so as to distinguish themselves among their peers. This charge came following the emergence of two teachers, Mrs. Mosunmola Tolu-Alalade of Community Senior …
WAEC Laments Lack of Teaching Staff in Schools: The Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has lamented the dearth of teaching staff in schools, just as it also called on state governments and proprietors of private schools to procure detectors to prevent candidates from smuggling …
Rivers State Government Unifies Academic Calender for Rivers Schools: The Rivers State Government has stated that it will unify the academic calendar and the curriculum for both public and private schools in the State. Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi disclosed this in a meeting with the National Association of …
There was pandemonium at the Upper Court 4 in Anguwan Jaki, Bauchi State, yesterday, as an angry mob almost lynched seven suspected homosexuals brought to court for trial. One of the suspects was identified as the Principal of a Government Secondary School in the state. The development forced security personnel …
SERAP Sues Fashola Over Spending on Education: THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State for his alleged failure to release to it information and documents relating to government’s spending on certain projects in the education sector. The group joined the state’s Attorney-General and …
The federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) yesterday engaged in a hot exchange of words over who is to blame for the over eight-month-old strike by the polytechnic lecturers. ASUP members had embarked on strike on April 17, 2013, to press home their …