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Kaduna State Government on Monday, approved Sunday, 8th and Monday, 9th November, 2020, as resumption dates for all primary school pupils, Senior Secondary School One (SSI) students, JSSI boarding and day schools students. A statement on Monday by the Commissioner for Education, Kaduna State, Alhaji Shehu Usman Muhammad directed all principals ... Read more

The Senate Committee on Public Account has raised eyebrow over an alleged N110.4 million paid non-existing staff by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, ( JAMB) The Senate Committee led by Senator Mathew Urhoghide investigation was a sequel to report of Auditor General of the Federation, Anthony Ayine submitted to the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has disclosed that they cannot go back to the classrooms on an empty stomach insisting that the Federal Government should adopt its recently invented payment system for Universities, “University Transparency and Accountability Solution”, UTAS as an alternative to IPPIS. ASUU also ... Read more

THE National Examinations Council (NECO) has notified the candidates, schools and other stakeholders of the resumption of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in all states and the FCT from Monday, November 9, 2020. The council was compelled to indefinitely postpone the remaining papers on Monday, October 25, 2020, in the wake ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday said that its members have been rejecting to migrate to the Integrated Personal Payroll Information System (IPPIS) since 2013 Dr Aniekan Brown, the Coordinator, ASUU Calabar Zone, disclosed this during a press conference in ... Read more

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has fixed new dates for the suspended Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) across the country. in all states and the FCT from Monday 9th November 2020. The NECO SSCE examinations were earlier postponed indefinitely on Monday 25th October ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has pointed out why it won’t call off the industrial action embarked upon by its members. The Coordinator of the Calabar Zone of ASUU, Dr. Aniekan Brown said the industrial action would continue as long as the government insists on the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System, ... Read more

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, of the Tertiary Education Trustfund, Ibrahim Imam, says plans are underway to construct facilities with provision for 2000 bed spaces across Nigerian universities. This, according to Imam, is to cushion the effect of inadequate student accommodation. He disclosed this in an interview on the sidelines of the BOT ... Read more

The acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, has appealed to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund to prioritise the varsity in the Federal Government projects for public institutions. Speaking on Monday during the visit of the board of trustees of TETFund to the Academic Publishing Centre, Ogunsola said having the ... Read more

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has blamed a previous administration for being responsible for the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Although Adamu was not specific on which administration he was referring to, he said the government shouldn’t have entered into agreement with ASUU to pay them ... Read more