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The (NANS) has commended the Federal Government (FG) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), for reaching an agreement to end the union’s nine-month-old strike. Sunday Asefon, the National President of NANS, while reacting to the announcement by ASUU calling off the strike on Wednesday in Abuja, called for the involvement ... Read more

- FG promises N30bn for varsities’ revitalisation before January, says ASUU - Lecturers don’t have monopoly of strike, we will ground universities — Unions - Prevent future strike, honour agreements, parents’ association pleads with FG Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba and Grace Edema The Academic Staff Union of Universities on ... Read more

representationThe High Powered Committee on Verification and Biometric Data Capture of Local Education Authority Staff in Borno has disclosed that 60 per cent of primary school teachers in the state lacked requisite teaching qualifications. The Chairman of the committee, Dr Shettima Kulima, made this known on Wednesday in Maiduguri while ... Read more

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that he will do everything to make sure the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) does not embark on another strike. Ngige stated this on Wednesday, while speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today. According to him, his three children were affected by the nine-month ... Read more

Okezie Ikpeazu has commended the School of Nursing, Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba, for excelling at the November 2020 General Nursing Council Exams. Ikpeazu in a series of tweets, said the achievement was as a result of hard work by candidates, their teachers, school management, and the deliberate policies put in ... Read more

AUGUSTINE University, Ilara-Epe, Lagos State has turned out its second set of graduating students. Speaking on the occasion, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Christopher Odetunde, said five out of the 38 graduating students got first class degree, while 20 got Second Upper Class, 11 in the Second Lower Class and two with Third Class. Odetunde ... Read more

Chairman Governing Council, Polytechnic Ibadan, Professor Adekunle Akinyemi, has expressed the need for individuals and private sector to support the education sector in the country. He stated this during the conferment of Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), on some dignitaries, by Espam-Formation University, Cotonou, Benin Republic, last Friday, at ... Read more

THE academic board of the Kogi State Polytechnic has expelled 34 students for their alleged involvement in examination misconduct, cultism and certificate forgery. This was contained in a statement by Head, Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the institution, Mrs Uredo Omale, and made available to the Nigerian Tribune. At its regular ... Read more

Authorities at the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) have narrated how 17 corps members on a journey were attacked on Wednesday along Jere-Abuja Road, and one corps member was killed. The management of the NYSC on Wednesday issued a statement on the incident. It reads: “The attention of NYSC Management has been drawn to the news ... Read more

No fewer than nine members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed in Niger State have tested positive for COVID-19, investigations have revealed. THISDAY learnt that the corps members were discovered to be positive through the tests carried out on them when they reported for the two-week orientation programme at the Paiko ... Read more