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THE vice chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Professor Kayode Soremekun, has said the Nigerian university system has been over-unionised with the activities of the academic and non-academic bodies causing persistent confrontations between the management and workers. This conflict of interests, Soremekun believes, is adversely ... Read more

THE Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has asked both federal and state governments to properly secure the colleges as preparations for reopening of tertiary institutions across the country continue. COEASU president, Nuhu Ogirima, speaking in Abuja lamented the parlous security condition of most of the colleges of education, ... Read more

GOVERNMENTS at all levels have been asked to stop playing politics with the education sector. The national secretary of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Dr Mike Ene, made the call in an exclusive interview with Tribune Education. He said playing politics with education by successive administrations, especially post-Civil War, had had grave ... Read more

MTN Nigeria through its CSR vehicle, MTN Foundation has commenced call-for entries for the third phase of its ICT and Business Skills training programme in Abia, Akwa Ibom and Kaduna States. The call for entries began on October 2, 2020, and will end on October 25, 2020. The programme in its fourth phase is organised in collaboration ... Read more

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi on Friday vowed that lecturers in Nigeria’s public universities were ready to protect incessant attacks on university autonomy by the Federal Government with the last drop of their blood. In a press statement titled, “On President ... Read more

Students of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro are protesting against the N5, 000 COVID-19 fee imposed by the management. The Nation learnt the protest, which started about 7am, saw several students at the institution’s gate and blocking the main entrance of the school. The polytechnic had imposed a N5, 000 COVID-19 levy on all ... Read more

THE National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, will resume academic activities on Monday, October 12, 2020, the institution has said. NOUN, in a statement by its Director, Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, Friday night, said the resumption “follows the recent decision of the Federal Government on re-opening of all academic ... Read more

The French Embassy in Nigeria on Friday donated a fabrication laboratory to the University of Lagos to drive innovation among students and staff. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the computer research laboratory has printing machines to produce objects. The digital fabrication laboratory, which is linked to other laboratories ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, University of Uyo, Uyo Akwa Ibom State, has urged all the disgruntled persons in the institution over the appointment of a new vice-chancellor to tow the line of peace to move the institution forward. It noted that it has uncovered a plot by a group to foment trouble to plunge the ... Read more

The Federal Government has ordered that salaries of any university worker, who is not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), be stopped with effect from November 2020. Recall that Buhari, while addressing a joint session of the National Assembly had threatened to stop salaries of lecturers not enrolled on ... Read more