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Leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are beginning to contradict themselves over the reasons they embarked on their on-going strike which had entered its eighth month. While some of the leaders in the south-south region said on Wednesday that the Federal ... Read more

The Coordinator ASUU Akure Zone, Professor Olu Olufayo, (second left) flanked by Chairmen of ASUU of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Ekiti State University and that of Federal University, Oye Ekiti during the press conference at OAUBy Shina Abubakar The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), Akure Zone has disclosed that ... Read more

Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has promised strict compliance with the COVID-19 protocols endorsed by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the pandemic and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in all its orientation camps in the country. ... Read more

The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has announced that it recently graduated 200 nursing students, through an online programme, in partnership with EduTech, which provided the online technology facilities and platform. Speaking about the prospects and challenges of online learning during a recent webinar organised by EduTech, a technology ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Sokoto zone, has accused the federal government of being responsible for the ongoing crises in Nigeria universities. The Zonal Coordinator, Dr Abubakar Sabo, who stated this Thursday during a press briefing at the Usman DanFodio University, Sokoto, added that the federal government is using the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday said the Federal Government was afraid youths might take to the streets in protest against the ongoing industrial action by its members, and thus, was employing blackmail to force lecturers back to class. The ASUU, Akure Zone, however declared that no amount of blackmail would make it end ... Read more

The West Africa Examinations Council said it spent over N1.5 billion to conduct the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations. The Head, WAEC National Office in Nigeria, Areghan Patrick, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the 2021 budget defence before the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and ... Read more

By Toba Adedeji, Osogbo The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday urged the Federal Government to pity the children of ordinary Nigerians and quickly attend to their demands noting that they are tired of strike action. The union disclosed that FG is rushing the union to resume because the government is scared of youths’ ... Read more

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Middle Belt Movement for Justice and Peace, MBMJP, has urged the federal government to quickly resolve its dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, before it becomes another reason for protests by the youths The group cautioned that Nigerian students were already getting agitated after losing a ... Read more

It was amidst pomp and circumstance last Saturday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital as the winner of the fourth edition of the Miss Ekiti 2020 beauty pageant emerged to the delight of many residents of the state. The winner, Miss Taiwo Blessing, a 300-level student of Economics department of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti ... Read more