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Governor Yahaya BelloBy Arogbonlo Israel Kogi State government has announced that schools in the state would resume on Monday, January 18, 2021, to continue the first term 2020/2021 academic session. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones, made the announcement in a statement on Saturday in Lokoja, the ... Read more

Daniels Igoni, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Government has directed all primary and secondary schools in the state to resume for the 2020/2021 academic session on Monday, January 11. This was announced in a statement by the Commissioner for Education, Gentle Emelah. He said that all boarding students were expected to arrive in their schools on Sunday, January 10. Emelah equally directed the ... Read more

Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt Rivers State Government has asked all public and private schools to resume on Monday with strict adherence to Coronavirus protocols. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Chidi Adiele, said the resumption date was in line with the school calendar published in August 2020 by Governor, Nyesom Wike. Adiele ... Read more

GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has approved the reopening of all schools in the state on Monday, January 11, for the continuation of the first term of 2020/2021 academic session. Education Commissioner, Kanaelechi Nwangwa, said yesterday that all school heads and proprietors should ensure the observance of COVID-19 protocols for the ... Read more

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu StateThe Enugu State Ministry of Education, Saturday said it has scheduled to meet with major stakeholders in the sector, on Monday, January 4, 2021, to discuss schools resumption in the state. According to a statement released by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze, the outcome of the meeting ... Read more

The long-awaited resumption of university students may be disrupted again as university workers, under the auspices of National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), have issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government over the disparity in allocation of N40 billion earned allowance. The varsity workers vowed to go on strike if ... Read more

Public and private primary and secondary schools in Lagos State are not reopening on Monday, January 4, 2021, as earlier announced, in fact, their reopening depends on how the second wave of COVID-19 goes, it was gathered on Sunday. While prodded on whether the schools would reopen ... Read more

NON-teaching staff unions in the universities under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee, JAC, will be holding a crucial meeting on Friday over the recent disparity in the sharing formula of the N40 billion Earned Allowances released by the Federal Government to the four university-based unions. Also part of the agenda at the meeting will ... Read more

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, Akwa Ibom State University chapter, has begun an indefinite strike to press for better condition of service. Our correspondent reports that academic and non-academic workers of the institution had been subjected to salary payment on percentage basis for the past 11 months in addition to the lack of ... Read more

The Calabar Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has raised the alarm over threat to life of it acting chairperson in the Ebonyi State University, Ikechwuku Igwenyi. ASUU coordinator for the zone, Dr Aniekan Brown raised the alarm at a media briefing in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Saturday He said the life of Igwenyi was in ... Read more