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Indications emerged on Friday that the faceoff between the Federal Government and the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities may not end soon. Despite the ongoing discussions between the two, ASUU said the government had sent officials from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation to commence enrolment of ... Read more

Over 92,000 candidates, Saturday wrote the 2019/2020 Common Entrance Examination of National Examination Council NECO, for admission into unity schools. Mallam Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education, who disclosed this to newsmen when he led top officials of both the ministry and NECO on monitoring of the examination, said a total of 92,591 ... Read more

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The ongoing nationwide protests against alleged police brutality, tagged ‘EndSARS’ have begun to have a heavy toll on candidates writing schools’ examinations. This was confirmed Sunday as the National Examinations Council, NECO,informed that the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has challenged the Federal Government to tell Nigerians why it prefers to spend money on enrolling workers on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, when the union’s University Transparency and Accountability System, UTAS, can be used for the same purpose free of ... Read more

Due to fear of spreading COVID-19 on campus ,the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Kaduna State University (KASU) chapter has cautioned against the university management’s plan to reopen the school. Like other institutions in the state, KASU has been shut for several ... Read more

All classes from nursery to senior secondary schools in Lagos public schools will reopen for academic activities on Monday. By this development, all pupils and students at these levels of education both in public and private schools in the state are expected to be in class, which will be six months after general school closure due to ... Read more

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has directed the closure of primary and secondary schools across the state, following the devastation caused by flood. A statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said the directive would take effect from today. Diri said the decision was taken to avert further danger to ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic, Bida chapter, has faulted the impending sack of three union leaders by the Rector, Dr. Abubakar Dzukogi without following due process and obeying court order. ASUP also appealed to the minister of education to stop the planned sack of three union leaders for allegedly ... Read more

A total of 92,591 candidates on Saturday across the country sat for the National Common Entrance Examination conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO). The examination which admits candidates into the 104 Federal Government Colleges also known as Unity Schools held across over 600 centres nationwide. However, with constraints of ... Read more

The Nasarawa State Government yesterday said it has reopened schools in the state after fumigating over 2,108 public primary and secondary school premises across the state as directed by the federal government. The General Manager of the Nasarawa State Environmental Protection Agency (NASEPA), Iliya Yusuf Adeka, disclosed this yesterday in ... Read more