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Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, in a statement today has ordered all public and private schools below the tertiary level in the state to reopen for the second term 2020/21 academic session from Monday, January 18, 2021. She said this was in line with the Federal Government’s directive coupled with the second wave ... Read more

The National Association of Nigerian Student (NANS) is currently enmeshed in a leadership crisis over a 'Christmas gift' given to the group by an unnamed politician, SaharaReporters has gathered. According to inside sources, the gift was shared by the President, Sunday Asefon, and other members of the executive, leaving out members of the legislative arm. An aide to the Senate ... Read more

The Enugu State Ministry of Education has announced January 18, 2021, as the resumption date for all schools in the state. The decision, according to a statement by the State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze, was reached at a meeting between the Ministry and major stakeholders in the sector, on Monday. ... Read more

The Senate of Bayero University Kano (BUK) on Monday January 4, approved the cancelation of 2019-2020 sessions for all Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs in the institution. The announcement was conveyed in a memo signed by the university registrar Fatima Binta-Mohammed, and released barely two weeks after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended its nine-month old ... Read more

Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin, Tukur Muntari, Kano and Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin The senate of the University of Ilorin has approved January 11 for the resumption of academic activities in the university. The varsity’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, in a statement on Monday, said the decision was taken at the 285th emergency ... Read more

Governor Babajide Sanwo-OluLagos State government has fixed January 18 for the resumption of schools for the second term 2020/2021 academic session. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, in a statement, said all public and private schools below the tertiary level in Lagos should be reopened on the date, advising ... Read more

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Federal Government said it had not received the strike notice issued by the National Association of Academic Technologists. The Ministry of Labour and Employment explained that it was not aware of the strike threats by the union over alleged dissatisfaction with the sharing formula for the N40bn earned academic ... Read more

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced a new national lockdown with people instructed to “stay at home” as they did during March’s first lockdown, Sky News reported on Monday. The prime minister revealed the action in an eight-minute TV address on Monday night, after being told that COVID-19 cases are rising ... Read more

Millions of Kenyan pupils returned to school on Monday for the first time since classes were dismissed 10 months earlier due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mask-wearing students had their temperatures checked before entering school to repeat their lost academic year, in what was both a ... Read more

By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is awaiting the release of the N40 billion earned allowance the Federal Government promised the union, 12 days after it called off the nine-month strike. The government, it said, has also failed to continue payment of the withheld salaries ... Read more