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Stakeholders in the education sector have backed the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) towards getting improved funding for the revitalization of public varsities and new salaries for the lecturers. The Stakeholders stated this on Friday at the engagement programme organised by the Ibadan Zone of ... Read more

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja and Laleye Dipo in Minna Following the mass #EndSARS protests, which have engulfed almost the entire country, thereby halting free vehicular movement, the National Examinations Council (NECO) has postponed its Computer Studies practical. The practical, which was scheduled to take place on Monday, October 19 (today), is now ... Read more

ABUJA- ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,has said governments’ response over the #EndSARS protests,especially the killings at of protesters at Lekki tollgate, showed that the future of Nigerian youths was under threat. The union, in a statement Friday’s night by its president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi,condemned in strongest ... Read more

No fewer than 12 Nigerian students have won scholarships into two Turkish Universities to study different courses. One student out of the 12 won full blown scholarship awards, another won scholarship for tuition fee and meal waiver for 4 years for a Ph.D programme while the remaining 10 won full tuition scholarship for 4-year period of ... Read more

The principal of Queens School Enugu, Mrs. Ada Nweke has called on security agencies to rescue their traumatized female students saying COVID-19 palliatives stocked in the school as alleged by angry protesters. It was learnt that some angry protesters planned to storm Queen School Enugu and cart away Covid-19 palliatives alledgedly stored in ... Read more

Dr John Aje is the Dean, School of Applied Science and Technology at Thomas Edison State University, United States of America. The former acting chair of the Technology and Engineering Systems Department for University of Maryland University College, the Graduate School, shares his thoughts on the recent #EndSARS protests and the challenges ... Read more

The National Examinations Council, NECO, announced Sunday, that it has suspended its ongoing internal Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations, SSCE, indefinitely. The council, in a statement by its Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani explained that the action was taken by its governing board, following the ... Read more

By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, has postponed its National Delegates Conference to elect new leaders, citing violence in some cities as a result of the #EndSARS protests as the reason. The decision was announced in a statement issued by SSANU’s National Public Relations Officer ... Read more

Processes leading up to the emergence of the next Vice Chancellor (UI) of the University of Ibadan (VC) hot up this week as the 18 candidates in the race are to meet with council, which is the supreme governing authority of the university, on Tuesday. In what is referred to as an interactive session, each of the 18 candidates is ... Read more

Recall that the state government had ordered the closure of all schools effective last Wednesday in the wake of gridlock and harassment of citizens that accompanied the #EndSARS protests. State Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, Mr Olasunkanmi Olaleye, conveyed the reopening directive in a statement on Sunday. Olaleye hinged ... Read more