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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja For the second time in one week, the meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities deadlocked on Wednesday as they failed to agree on the payment platform to be used in disbursing the salary arrears and the N30bn Earned Allowance of the university lecturers. The FG team led ... Read more

THE National Universities Commission has listed infrastructure, power, and internet access as some of the major challenges why Nigerian universities cannot operate 100 per cent e-learning for now. In view of the exigencies, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission is also undertaking the review of its 2009 guidelines on e-learning to ... Read more

THE Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAB) Professor, Kolawole Salako, has made a case for effective water management across Nigeria to avert having major environmental climatic problems. Salako, a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of Nigeria (FSSSN), made the call while reflecting on the 2020 World Food ... Read more

AN Ibadan-based educationist, Dr Isaac Friday Ogada, has appealed to the Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde to being extend to staff, pupils and owners of private schools the COVID-19 palliatives being distributed to civil servants and artisans to cushion the effects of the pandemic. In a press release, Dr Ogada pointed out that ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (UNIZIK), Awka, Professor Charles Okechukwu Esimone, has again put smiles on the faces of staff and crew of the University’s campus radio, UNIZIK 94.1fm following the provision of an OMB FM Transmitter for effective dissemination of the vision and mission of the institution. gathered that ... Read more

Police officers lynched in the wake of the violence instigated by the nationwide youth demonstration against police brutality will not die in vain, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has pledged. The state government, yesterday, directed Lagos State Scholarship Board to award scholarships to the children of the slain officers up to ... Read more

ENUGU– No fewer than 21 persons, including schoolchildren, have been crushed to death in Agwu, Enugu State, on their way from school. The pupils were of the Presentation Nursery and Primary School, Awgu, operated by the Catholic Diocese of Awgu, Enugu State. They were crushed ... Read more

The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continues as the meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of ASUU held, late Wednesday night, again ended in a deadlock. The meeting headed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, could not conclude and finally resolve the contentious ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has blamed the Federal Government for frustrating efforts to resolve issues that resulted in the ongoing strike embarked upon by the lecturers. ASUU National President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this on Politics Today, a programme aired on Channels Television. Ogunyemi claimed that the Federal ... Read more

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has directed that all public and private schools in the state should resume on Monday 2nd of November, 2020. Schools in the state were closed on Monday 26th October 2020 following #EndSARS protest which turned bloody after it was hijacked by hoodlums. ... Read more