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MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige on Wednesday said the Federal Government was addressing the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, holistically to ensure that all other unions in the university system were carried along. The Minister said this while defending the budget of his Ministry before the ... Read more

No fewer than 17 inmates of the Nigeria Correctional Service in Kano State have sat for the West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination and National Examination Council external examinations. The state Controller, NCS, Suleiman Suleiman, who stated this Wednesday, explained that two of the inmates sat for the external exams this year ... Read more

THE industrial crisis rocking the nation’s public universities worsened on Wednesday when the Federal Government said the non-academic workers in the public universities rejected the new payment platform proposed by lecturers. The Federal Government is currently studying the University Transparency Account System presented to it by the ... Read more

Professor Hamman Tukur Saad, Chairman of the Federal Government Visitation Panel on the University of Lagos (UNILAG) said he regretted signing the report of the panel. He stated this in a letter to the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari. His letter was ... Read more

The Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Ibadan, has secured approval from JAMB to use the latter’s platform for admission into its two-year National Diploma courses. The college offers diploma courses in Animal Health and Production Technology, Science ... Read more

The Chairman, Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Hon Barrister Olugbenga Edema has distributed a sizeable amount of quality educational materials to students and pupils of public secondary and primary schools in Ese-Odo and Ilaje local government areas of Ondo State. The event, which took place at The Williams ... Read more

Mr Mohammed Ibrahim of Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola, has emerged the new National President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU). Ibrahim was elected at the end of the 2nd Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of SSANU on Tuesday in Abuja. The conference has the theme “Respecting ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Lagos State University, LASU, chapter has said it followed due process before starting renovation works in its secretariat, dismmising claims by some former union leaders that the current exco has no right to the facility. In a statement by the Chairman, Dr Ibrahim Bakare and the Secretary, Dr ... Read more

DEMANDS by members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) are worsening crisis in the universities, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, told journalists on Wednesday that the unions within the ivory towers had since ... Read more

It was a heroic welcome for reinstated Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. He resumed office amid celebration as elated staff members sang and danced. Speaking at the university Senate Building foyer,a delighted Ogundipe, who thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and others ,urged members of staff to be ... Read more