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A 50-year-old woman has enrolled at Ilorin Grammar School Ilorin. Mrs. Ajayi Folashade started at Junior Secondary 2, with kids younger than her children as her classmates. The woman, who hopes to become a teacher someday, said she enrolled in school to better herself. She added that she hopes to encourage people her age to follow through with their dreams irrespective of age. She also ... Read more

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) at the University of Ibadan have blocked all the entrance gates to the University. DAILY POST gathered that the workers blocked the gates in protest of the federal government’s alleged ... Read more

Following the strike embarked upon by members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, , the management of the Lagos State University, LASU, has postponed outstanding papers in the ongoing first semester examination. ... Read more

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it would spend not less than N100 million on the prosecution of 200 out of the over 400 persons involved in impersonation in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME This came as the board hinted of ... Read more

The Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Professor Bappa-Aliyu Muhammadu, has said children must start their primary one at the age of five or six. Mohammadu gave the recommendation based on the fact that there were some faculties that had to be developed for the children to reason, appreciate and ... Read more

“Most times, private universities produce graduates with empty brains; these graduates hardly contribute meaningfully to the growth and development of the society. “These graduates become a problem to the society rather than solving the existing problems as intellectuals. “So, I want to urge the owners and managers of these ... Read more

Mr Mohammed Ibrahim is the National President, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities. In this interview with GRACE EDEMA, he speaks on issues surrounding the ongoing strike of the non-academic staff of the nation’s varsities among others The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said the Joint Action Committee ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) has raised the alarm over the influx of fake Computer-based Test (CBT) centres, especially in the northern part of the country. JAMB has also said it would spend not less than N100 million to prosecute 200 out of the over 400 persons involved in alleged impersonation in the 2020 ... Read more

Staff of Demonstration Schools in Rivers State have decried the lack of compliance of the state government over a court ruling on the payment of their salaries, since 2016. In a joint media briefing with the Rivers Civil Society Organizations, the teachers, explained the hardship they are facing, just as they pleaded with the state ... Read more

AFTER the prolonged shut down of the nation’s universities due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease and the industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the university system is again reeling under the weight of another strike courtesy of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian ... Read more