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As the University of Port Harcourt plans to resume academic activities on February 1, 2021, following its senate’s decision, the institution said it has put in place measures of enforcing COVID-19 safety measures to avert any disruption of its academic activities by the second wave of the pandemic. The Public Relations Officer of the ... Read more

Workers at The Polytechnic Ibadan, on Monday, vowed not to succumb to pressure as they began an indefinite strike over the non-implementation of the minimum wage by the Oyo State Government. A joint committee of all staff unions in the institution, comprising the academic and non-academic staff, held that the governing council and the Oyo ... Read more

Vice-Chancellors of some federal and state universities in Nigeria have expressed readiness to reopen schools. Though the Academic Staff Union of Universities had said that varsities were not ready for reopening, the VCs said they had planned to reopen their institutions as directed by the Federal Government. One of the VCs of a federal ... Read more

The Senate of Ekiti State University (EKSU) has announced that the institution would resume online academic activities from January 18 due to the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This was contained in a statement signed by Bode Olofinmuagun, Head, Directorate and Corporate Affairs and released to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on ... Read more

The says it would reopen its 4,816 schools on January 18 for the 2020/2021 academic session, according to Aliyu Tilde, the state commissioner of education. The federal government is currently considering rescheduling the of schools across the country from January 18 due to the spike in COVID-19 cases. “We would reopen the schools ... Read more

Prof. Oyedamola Oke, yesterday, emerged acting Vice Chancellor for Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo. Oke, who is from the Faculty of Science, defeated his only opponent, Prof. Wahab Elias, by 61 to 51 votes. He is the current Deputy VC Academics in the school. He emerged acting VC at an emergency senate meeting held yesterday as ... Read more

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, (FUNAAB), has said that it would resume academic activities on Jan. 18, in compliance with the directives of the Federal Government. DAILY POST had reported that the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday insisted that Nigerian universities in the country at the moment. According to ... Read more

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, on Tuesday, said schools in the country will resume on January 18 until the Ministry of Education announces further directive. PTF National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, stated this while featuring on TVC’s Your View breakfast show monitored by The PUNCH. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, ... Read more

The National Association of Nigerian Students has urged the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to resume academic activities at the nation’s public universities. The students’ body also ordered its chapters in all tertiary institutions to set up COVID-19 task force teams to enforce all ... Read more

The University of Jos has announced Jan. 22 as its resumption date for the 2019/2020 academic session, Mr. Abdullahi Abdullahi, the Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications of the university, said in a statement on Tuesday, in Jos. The statement said the decision was reached and approved by the Senate of the university, at its 4th ... Read more