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The federal government has revealed that strategies have been adopted to ensure continuous learning beyond interuption of strikes by the Acadmic Staff Union of University (ASUU) and pandemics in schools across the country. The minister of education Mallam Adamu Adamu who made this disclosure at the annual ministerial press briefing of the ministry said, it has constituted a National Working ... Read more

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital, has sentenced a 23-year-old student, Emmanuel Thomas, to five years’ imprisonment. Thomas, a native of Uruk Uso in Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state, was convicted for belonging to an unlawful society known as Red Skin Secret Cult Confraternity, one of the ... Read more

Scientists and researchers at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, and the ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday, said they had a breakthrough in understanding why humans were more vulnerable to infections by the new variant of COVID-19, popularly known as N501Y SARS-CoV-2 mutant. The bio-medical scientists and ... Read more

Bowen University, one of the faith-based private tertiary institutions in the country established by the Nigerian Baptist Convention, in Iwo, Osun State, has injected new leadership into the administrative system of the Ivory Tower. The development led to the appointment of Professor Oluwatosin Atobatele as deputy vice-chancellor of the ... Read more

If the words of Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu are anything to go by, the implementation of the 65 year retirement age and 40 year of service approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday have taken off. The minister, who spoke on Thursday at the 2020 ministerial briefing in Abuja, said the policies took effect from ... Read more

The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Kayode Fayemi on Students Matters, Mr Olalekan Soyombo has advocated a change in curricula across all levels of education for the nation to survive its current challenges. The governor’s aide in a statement titled, ‘ Knowledge Economy and Ekiti Example ‘ on Thursday noted that ... Read more

Four Police Inspectors, allegedly to have harassed and extorted a 16-year-old student simply identified as Segun, of N70,000, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. The policemen, 223329 Inspr Emmanuel Michael, aged 40, 146504 Inspr Subday Odubiyi, aged 40, 256496 Inspr Lawrence Amedu, aged 39, and 255043 Inspr Aroye Dickson, aged 40, reportedly accosted the victim at NGAB ... Read more

Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Comrade Monday Izu, Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Delta State University, Abraka Branch. Sources said that the labour leader was abducted on Thursday night. His whereabouts was yet to be ascertained as at noon on Friday as the kidnappers were yet to open any contact with family members of the victim. The abduction was ... Read more

Gives FG 2-weeks ultimatum to address issues By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Non-teaching staff in the Universities, Friday announced that they will be proceeding on what they described as a total and comprehensive nationwide strike on 5th February 2021 following the inability of the Federal Government to address their concerns. ... Read more

Benue state government has placed an embargo on mid-term breaks and visiting days for students of all boarding schools as part of measures to check the spread of COVID-19 in schools across the state. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar who made this known yesterday ... Read more