Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lecturers have been paid full salaries for the month of November by the Federal Government. However, the lectures’ eight-month arrears remain withheld by the Federal Government. A senior member of the union at the Bayero University Kano made this known in an interview...
Education
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono has urged the Research and Development Standing Committee (RSDC) to design an agenda that can fast track the research process in Nigeria. Echono stated this when he met with leadership of the Committee, led by...
The Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Ajiboye has urged Nigerians to stop portraying the educational sector in bad light in the global scene. According to him, Nigerians should always emphasise the positive values of the sector. Ajiboye was speaking at a one-day retreat on the...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) chapter, on Monday protested what they called casualisation of intellectual workers in the country. Prof. Rasheed Adeoye, the former ASUU Chairman of the university, described half salaries reportedly paid by government to members of the union...
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) said on Monday that holders of Higher National Diploma (HND) would soon be employed as Assistant Lecturers in Polytechnics and Monotechnics. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Prof. Idris Bugaje, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has set the National Skills Qualification (NSQ) training as a precondition for accreditation of National Diploma (ND) programmes in Polytechnics and Monotechnics. The NSQ is a work related and competence-based qualification with skills assessed at both the training centre and workplace. The...
The governing council of the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi (FUBK), has appointed Prof. Muhammad Zaiyan- Umar, as the new Vice- Chancellor of the University. Zaiyan-Umar, is taking over from the outgoing Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Bello Bala-Shehu, whose tenure of five years will end on Dec. 3. The Pro-Chancellor and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In response to the low levels of participation of girls in schools, the Federal Ministry of Education, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK, and UNICEF have implemented the Girls’ Education Programme Phase 3 (GEP3) across six northern Nigerian states of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Students at the Federal and States Universities have been called up on to boycott the 2023 general election in protest against the federal government over its lukewarm attitude towards their education. The students who came out in solidarity protest with Academic Staff Union of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In response to the low levels of participation of girls in schooling, the Federal Ministry of Education, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK, and UNICEF have implemented the Girls’ Education Programme Phase 3 (GEP3) across six northern Nigerian states of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – THE Federal Government on Thursday formally announced the reintroduction of History as a stand alone subject in basic education curriculum in Nigeria, thirteen years after its abolition. A total of 3,700 History teachers have also been shortlisted for the first round of training for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) branch has scheduled a one-day suspension of examinations for Tuesday, 22nd November, 2022 to protest against the non-payment of outstanding salaries and half payment of October salary. The Registrar, UNIMAID, Ahmad A. Lawan...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – No fewer than 11,629 candidates participated in the second batch of the 2022 Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination, PQE, conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, on Saturday nationwide. TRCN’s Director of Examination and Licencing, Dr Jacinta Ogboso, who monitored the exercise at...
The immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has graduated from the Baze University, Abuja, with a second class upper degree in Law. Amaechi, in a statement issued by his Media Office on Saturday in Abuja, was admitted to the Bachelor of Law Degree Programme when serving as a...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Mr Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Transport were among five personalities honoured with Fellows at the combined convocation of Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the combined convocation is for the pending graduating...
The Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Dr David Oyedepo, has advised youths to imbibe discipline to actualise their goals. Oyedepo gave the advice during the 21st Matriculation ceremony for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees on Friday in Ota. He noted that access to the top was always at a...
The Federal Ministry of Education has organised a review meeting on the harmonisation of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to eliminate disparity in its quality and standard nationwide. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 5th edition of the two-day meeting which started on Wednesday in Ilorin is...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has announced the postponement of the Institution’s 44th matriculation ceremony earlier scheduled for Friday, 18th November 2022. This is contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Unit from the Office of the Registrar. The statement indicated...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi Branch, has alleged that the Federal Government is not interested in funding public universities in the country. It said that the underfunding of public universities in the country under the pretext that...
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, on Tuesday, criticised the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, over his alleged authorisation of the part-payment of salaries to members of the union, following the suspension of its seven-month strike in October. This comes...