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The face-off between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities has continued to deepen with the government insisting that Nigeria is the only country where lecturers walk away after shutting down Universities. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, said these in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abuja Zone, on Monday said that the Federal Government should implement the extant agreements aimed at developing Nigeria’s education sector. Prof. Theophilus Lagi, Abuja Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, made the call at a news conference on ... Read more

Designates UniAbuja centre of excellence, to spend N10bn on varsity The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) says there will henceforth be a paradigm shift in needs assessment, interventions, and monitoring of such interventions by the agency in the nation’s tertiary educational institutions. The Board ... Read more

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Monday, released the results of this year’s May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). About 1,549,740 candidates registered for the examination from 19,129 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria in 2020. Candidates can check their results on WAEC’s results ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ambrose Alli University, (AAU), Ekpoma Chapter has expressed doubt on the ability of the Special Visitation Panel set up by Governor Godwin Obaseki to come up with an unbiased report at the end of its sitting. In a statement issued in Benin City on Tuesday by Dr. Monday Igbafen and Dr. ... Read more

The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, says there is ‘absolutely nothing’ stopping lecturers from returning to the classrooms ‘tomorrow’. According to him, the Federal Government has done all that it ought to do for the striking lecturers to return to the classrooms. The minister, who spoke on Tuesday ... Read more

The West African Examinations Council has relocated its office in Calabar, the Cross River State capital to its zonal office in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. WAEC Nigeria said the relocation is “till further notice,” adding that the movement became necessary following “vandalisation, looting and burning down of the WAEC ... Read more

Edo State University Iyamho has announced its second convocation ceremony, scheduled to take place on Saturday November 7, 2020 at the university campus in Iyamho, Edo State. The announcement was made by the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor during a press briefing with the member of management staff on Monday, ... Read more

Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, NCDC DG.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said that all members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme at orientation camps across the country, will undergo one of the new Antigen-Based tests. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the NCDC Director General who made this known at the PTF briefing on Tuesday ... Read more

The Federal government has dismissed claims by university lecturers that they have not been paid for eight months. Emeka Nwajiuba, the Minister of State for Education, insisted that such a claim was unfair. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Nwajiuba said some lecturers got excess salaries and had to refund it to the ... Read more