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By Damian Duruiheoma, Owerri Non-teaching staff in the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) on Thursday concluded a three-day nationwide protests to press home their demands which centred on the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System(IPPIS) and sharing formula of the N40 billion Earned Academic allowances. The ... Read more

Kwara State govt has announced the date for schools resumption amid COVID-19 second wave. It set January 18, 2021, as the beginning of the second term academic session in the state. Mrs Kemi Adeosun, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, made this known during the Education stakeholders’ meeting ... Read more

MINISTER of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has said the January 18,2021 schools’ resumption date remains sacrosanct. The minister, in a statement Thursday, through his ministry’s Director, Press and Public Relations, Bem Goong,said the decision to maintain the resumption date was the aftermath of “extensive ... Read more

THE Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, will meet on Tuesday next week to appraise the outcome of the just-concluded three-day protest and decide whether to declare a total and indefinite strike. ... Read more

Daniels Igoni, Yenagoa THE Public Relations Officer of the Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Mr Ingezi Idon, said the university had eradicated sex-for-marks syndrome and moved beyond the era where lecturers would sleep with female students in order to award them marks for courses of study. Idon was reacting to ... Read more

The University of Ibadan (UI) has cancelled the 2019/2020 academic session. This was part of resolutions reached at a meeting of the university’s Senate held on Thursday. The meeting, according to a member of Senate who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune, also affirmed resumption of the institution on Monday, January 18 for the ... Read more

STATES forced the Federal Government to agree to the reopening of schools on Monday, it was learnt on Thursday. Following the second wave of Coronavirus, the Federal Government through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Control announced in December that schools should not reopen for second term until January 18. As positive ... Read more

The Federal Government has been warned against reopening of schools in the country. Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, gave the warning on Thursday citing the increase in confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections in the country. He urged the Federal Government to be extremely cautious in ... Read more

The Federal Ministry of Education has updated the guidelines for school reopening, suspending assembly, and visiting days in schools. This was contained in a statement by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Bem Goong, titled, ‘School resumption date of January 18, 2021 stands — Minister’, on ... Read more

Prof Ademola Tayo is the Vice-Chancellor of Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State. In this interview, he tells GRACE EDEMA about e-learning in Nigeria What are the challenges of running e-learning in Nigeria? The basic challenge is exposure to new technology and building the capacity of the lecturers to use it for their teaching purposes, ... Read more