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Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Professor Suleiman Bogoro, has put the student population of all private universities in the country at only 5.4 per cent of the total number of students in Nigerian universities. He said though private universities accounted for about 40 to 45 per cent of the number of ... Read more

A 24-year-old lady teacher, Medinat Ibrahim, who allegedly faked her own kidnap in the Olude, Oke-Fomo area, Ilorin, Kwara State last Saturday said she committed the crime to raise money to settle debt which accrued from the monthly contribution in her place of work. Medinat, who was paraded alongside two other suspects — Amudalat ... Read more

Following the suspension of the nine-month industrial strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Senate of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has approved the resumption of academic activities for the Rain Semester from Monday, January 11, 2021. At its 285th Emergency Meeting held virtually via Zoom Thursday last week, ... Read more

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The federal government yesterday said it had kept faith with all the terms of agreement entered into with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on December 22, 2020. The government debunked the claim by a member of ASUU that it has failed to keep to the terms of the last agreement it reached with ... Read more

Patrick Odey, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said on Wednesday that seven suspects connected to the Deeper Life High School child molestation scandal had been charged. The suspects, including 45-year-old Ndidi Solomon and four others, were arraigned before a magistrates’ court, while two students mentioned were arraigned at a ... Read more

The governing council of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has announced the appointment of a professor of soil science, Abayomi Sunday Fasina as the new vice chancellor of the institution Fasina who is the current deputy vice Chancellor (Administration) will succeed Professor Kayode ... Read more

VARIOUS stakehoders in the education sector in the country have said year 2020 was not good to the sector, saying it negatively affected the fortunes of education in Nigeria. Some of them even prayed that the nation should not experience such a year again going by the devastating effects of happenings in the year on education in the ... Read more

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has approved the extension of the appointment of Professor Olugbenga Ige as Acting Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State. This is in exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor as the Visitor to the University. ... Read more

THE Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, LASU, has conducted an orientation programme for new intakes of its newest programme, Doctor of Education, described as first of its kind in the country. The event took place at the conference room, Faculty of Education, Main Campus, Ojo, Lagos. The Dean, Faculty of Education, Prof. Tunde ... Read more

FORMER Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Peter Okebukola and a former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo, Professor Abisogun Leigh, have openly declared that the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun did better for LASU than any of his predecessors. They ... Read more