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A delegation of the Federal Government led by the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, met behind closed doors with the leadership of the Senate on Tuesday to appraise the University Transparency Account Systems payment platform developed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The meeting, chaired by the ... Read more

Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc has introduced a school loan product for private primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, to enable them meet their short-term financial requirements. After several months of physical and economic disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have resumed to contribute meaningfully towards national development ... Read more

The Law Students Association of Nigeria has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately resign his appointment over his incompetence. National President of the group, Dr Blessing Agbomhere, disclosed this in Abuja while addressing journalists over the continued killing and violations of rights of innocent ... Read more

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Anderson Ezeibe, has said that polytechnic lecturers regret enrolling on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). According to Ezeibe, this is because IPPIS had been characterised with omission of staff members’ names and non-remittance of check-off ... Read more

An Islamic group, Jama’atul Izalatul Bidi’a Wa’ Ikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), on Wednesday called on both the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to immediately resolve their differences and the ongoing strike by university teachers. They are asking both parties to act in the interest of Nigerian ... Read more

The management of the Polytechnic Ibadan in Oyo State said on Wednesday that it has shifted the 2019/2020 first semester examination of the institution. DAILY POST gathered that this is the second time the institution will postpone the examination. Our correspondent recalls that the institution had on Monday shifted the first-semester ... Read more

After months of closing schools following the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, Ondo State government on Wednesday directed all schools in the state to resume for academic activities from Monday, 19th October 2020. The Chairman of the Interministerial Committee on Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, who disclosed this ... Read more

A 15-year-old student of Olabisi Onabanjo University International School, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Mariam Ayolola Kaka, who emerged the overall winner of a global art competition has given a scholarship and bursary awards to needy students in the state. Kaka who is the daughter of a former Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Adegbenga Kaka, ... Read more

The mandatory one year scheme for Nigeria graduates, National Youths Service Corps NYSC, has helped no fewer than twelve serving members fine their missing ribs in Anambra State. Tribune Online gathered that the couples, Eze Obinwa, Oluchi peace, Henry Nwachoko Charles Ruth, Oluchukwu Davis, Ohale Nkemakolam, Nsofor Obianuju, Ogberie Collins, ... Read more

The National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS), has vowed to rid the higher institutions operating in Ekiti State of sexual assault, promising to work with the management to ensure that lecturers engaging in such “animalistic” behaviour are dismissed and prosecuted. The Chairman, NANS/Joint Campus Committee, Ekiti axis, Mr Abiola ... Read more