The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the federal government start implementing the 26 percent budgetary allocation to education as recommended by UNESCO which Nigeria is a signatory. He made this call in a press conf...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said yesterday that it might embark on another strike if the Federal Government failed to meet the Nov. 22 deadline to implement its 2009 agreement with the union. Dr Clement Chup, Chairman of the U...
The Imo State government, in partnership with KWAKAF, is to train 60 Imo State indigenes in higher institutions on a six-month internship programme in the Centre for Energy and Environment Engineering, University of Maryland, United States. Spea...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Uyo Branch, has condemned the move by a group of legislators to abolish the post-UTME screening test. This was made known to newsmen by its Chairman, Mr Nwachukwu Anyim, at the ...
Teachers in Mubi Local Government of Adamawa yesterday resumed work following the suspension of the seven-week strike by the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers had in September ...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, has expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of students in core science subjects at the Federal Science and Technical College, Aka Offot, Akwa Ibom State. The minister, who was on official...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyah Rufa’i has expressed displeasure at the lack of laboratory equipment at the Federal Science Technical College (FSTC), Uyo.The minister had yesterday inspected the World Bank/Federal Government assisted pr...
The vice chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. O. G. Oshidin, has called for more funds for federal universities in the country. Oshodin made the call at the opening ceremony of a three-day retreat for governing council and principal offic...
Academic activities were yesterday disrupted by students of Lagos State University (LASU) who staged a protest against the increment in their tuition fees.The students, who trooped out in numbers to protest the increment, blocked entrance to the ...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has ordered the authorities of Nasarawa State Polytechnis to work out modalities of slashing the school fees. The public relation officer of the institution, Alhaji Muktar Wakeel, who spoke to the press shor...
The candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the April gubernatorial election in Akwa Ibom State, Senator John Akpanudoedehe suffered another legal defeat against his opponent, the Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio as a Feder...
The Senate yesterday declared as illegal, the post- University Matriculation Examination (UME) conducted by the universities. Consequently, the senators resolved to beam its search lights on universities that indulge in the exam. To give the resolution...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Dr Saidu Jen as the substantive Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Bali, Taraba state.The appointment which is for a term of four years in the first instance was conveyed in a letter by the Honour...
Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has directed employers of corps members to provide accommodation for them or risk being declared ``unfriendly to the scheme''. The director-general...
A Bauchi-based social group, the Association for the Support of Higher Education (ASHE) has organised a civic reception in honour of the first female professor in Bauchi State, Prof. Fatima Jafar Tahir. The event, according to the Chairman of the Assoc...