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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it will soon expose those feeding fat on the adoption of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, by the Federal Government as its payment platform. This is just as the union alleged that some people in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation ... Read more

Another Junior Secondary School 3 student has been ganged-raped in Egan, Igando area of Lagos, over the weekend. This occurred barely one week after an 11-year-old girl, who was sent on an errand was gang-raped to death in Ejigbo area of Lagos, with her assailants still on the run. ... Read more

Following its decision to reopen schools in Abuja after seven months of forced closure, the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA has announced a two-day intra-action review workshop in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization, WHO. Acting Secretary, FCT ... Read more

NATIONAL President of Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Haruna Danjuma has called on Federal and state governments to provide adequate security to schools, to protect teachers and students from kidnappers and ensure adherence to COVID-19 protocols. Danjuma spoke in an interview with reporters in Kaduna yesterday. He said the increasing security ... Read more

THE United Nations (UN) has urged the Federal Government to ensure that girls stay in school after the COVID-19 era. It said this can be done by ensuring that schools have menstrual hygiene products that enable girls stay in school, as opposed to dropping out. Junior Programmes Analyst at UN Women, Angela Muruli, stated this in Abuja at ... Read more

The Polytechnic Ibadan on Monday said that it has postponed the first semester examination for the 2019/2020 session in the institution. DAILY POST gathered that the examination was slated to commence today (Monday). Our correspondent gathered from students that the decision was taken in view of the protest embarked upon by the students who ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has described the directive stopping the salaries of university employees, who have not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, as blackmail to weaken workers and make them enroll on the platform. The Chairman of the University of Port Harcourt Branch of ASUU, Dr Austen ... Read more

The Lagos State Government has approved the resumption of all classes in both public and private schools. The state government says all schools are to resume on Monday, October 19, 2020. The resumption for the 2020/2021 academic session will include pupils in pre-primary — daycare, kindergarten and nursery schools. Commissioner for ... Read more

The President of Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has appealed to the striking members of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the industrial action for the sake of students. Lawan made the call during a meeting in Abuja between the leadership of the ASUU and some Principal Officers of the Senate on Monday. The Senate ... Read more

National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has appealed to Kaduna Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai to re-open schools. It said private schools in Kaduna are fully ready for resumption having put necessary measures in place to checkmate the effect of COVID-19. In a statement in Kaduna by NAPPS chairman, Ja’afaru Yusuf, ... Read more