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Some stakeholders in University education in Nigeria, on Thursday, warned against the proliferation of universities in the country, following Wednesday’s approval of 20 new private universities by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). In separate interviews with the News Agency of ... Read more

THE nationwide strike by the university workers will commence midnight today, as the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions (NASU) have directed their members in public universities across the country to shut down the system by 12 midnight. President ... Read more

In compliance with the directive from the national body, the non-academic staff unions of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka branch, have directed all their members to stay off duties from next Monday. The leadership of the unions under the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Senior Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the ... Read more

THE Federal Government on Friday told the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, that it will be illegal for them to proceed on strike when discussions to sort out some of the contentious issues were still ongoing. The Federal Government also ... Read more

The federal government has urged the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), who have declared a strike action to give it three months to resolve their grievance over the minimum wage. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, who ... Read more

A- 19-year-old student (name withheld) of Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife has been arrested by the Osun State police command for beating the school principal, Mr Ademola Sanusi to a state of coma on Friday. However, some teachers around the scene of the incident said to have fled the place to avoid being beaten blue-black alongside with their ... Read more

From Benjamin Babine, Abuja The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) says the recent approval of twenty new private universities by the Federal Government will further weaken public tertiary institutions in the country. NANS President Asefon Sunday said in a statement that the development will cause many lecturers in public ... Read more

Nursing students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, were filmed standing outside to write a test. In the footage shared online, some of the students are seen kneeling on the floor since there were no chairs or desks available. Others are seen using the trimmed plants as a table. "How this people go take pass? Imagine... Nigeria is messed up," voices are heard saying in the ... Read more

The Management of Kaduna State University (KASU) has described as fake news, trending social media posts purporting a change of name for Kaduna State University to Magajin Garin Zazzau Sambo University. A statement by Samuel Manshop, registrar of the institution, on Sunday, urged the public to disregard the information ”as it is the ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Prof. Charles Arizechukwu Igwe, on Saturday warned the matriculating students of the institution to shun cybercriminalities and any form of cult-related activities or face expulsion. The VC who equally warned the students to eschew other vices capable of jeopardizing their academic ... Read more