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Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has ordered the temporary suspension of ongoing semester examination at the Institute of Technology (OGITECH), Igbesa, following the death of a student. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased, Yusuf Malik, a National Diploma 1 student, was on Tuesday knocked down by a motorcycle at the ... Read more

The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a stalemate for the third time on Wednesday, as the parties again failed to resolve the issues around the payment platform for salaries and other benefits. Besides, ASUU was insisting that the N30bn Earned Academic Allowances offered by the ... Read more

Ayoola Akinwole is a professor of Aquaculture Engineering and Water Resources, and the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Ibadan branch. He speaks on the ongoing ASUU strike occasioned by the failure of the union and the Federal Government to reach a compromise on a six-point agenda and other critical issues in ... Read more

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, it has not recorded any case among its corps members and staff. The Scheme also said, though the COVID-19 pandemic threatened socio-economic activities in the country, it has ... Read more

The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, says corps members and staff of the 2020 Batch “B” orientation exercise would be tested for COVID-19 before the programme. Gen. Ibrahim disclosed this on Thursday in Jos at the opening ... Read more

Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) at the University of Ibadan on Thursday declared that Senate of the University has no power to punish its members. DAILY POST recalls that some Senate members at the University had on Wednesday, who participated in a protest against the ongoing ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Wednesday, said it is tired of being dribbled by the federal government’s consistent failure to honour agreements reached with the union. It stated that the plan of the federal government to use hunger by withholding salaries of lecturers as a weapon to weaken its agitation and ... Read more

Director-General, National Youth Service Corp NYSC Brigadier General Shaibu Ibrahim Ibrahim disclosed that a total of six thousand NYSC members will be deployed across the country for the 2020 NYSC Batch “B” General Ibrahim who disclosed this in an interview in Jos on Thursday during a Pre-Orientation Course workshop organised for ... Read more

Rose Ejembi, Makurdi Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the federal government of using the instrument of hunger to coarse its members to accept the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Nsukka Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr. Igbana Ajir who stated this during a press conference held in Makurdi, the ... Read more

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has again extended registration for its 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination for private candidates. According to a tweet on its Twitter handle, the new deadline is Friday, November 13, 2020. “WASSCE for private candidates, 2020 — second series: Further ... Read more