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The management of the University of Ibadan has disclosed that it has banned the allocation of students into the institution’s respective halls of residence. According to a statement made available to Vanguard on Wednesday, by the university’s Director of Public Communication, Mr. Olatunji Oladejo, the management noted the information ... Read more

By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie Chairman of the University of Lagos chapter of the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions, Mr. Kehinde Ajibade, has described the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) used to pay civil servants as fraudulent. He accused the Federal Government of deceiving the Union to sign ... Read more

Students of Ebonyi State University (EBSU) on Thursday barricaded the Abakaliki-Enugu Expressway to protest the overcrowding they experienced while writing an examination on Wednesday. They claimed there was a stampede leading to the fainting spells in some students as they wrote their General Studies Tests (GST) examination at the university ... Read more

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Thursday, disclosed that the state will commence the push to make the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, a conventional university. Makinde made this disclosure while receiving a report of the Oyo State negotiating committee on the institution. The governor, while receiving the ... Read more

The Commissioner, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, has urged teachers in the state to always translate new learning into teaching and classroom activities. Adefisayo, who spoke at the unveiling of the Casio Mathematics and Science Training Centre located at the Education Resource Centre, Ojodu Berger, Lagos, explained ... Read more

The principal, Lagos Preparatory and Secondary School, Ikoyi, Mr Gregor Polson, has stressed the need for schools to have foresight, understand the skills and qualifications students will need in a competitive workforce. Polson, in a statement by the school’s public relations and marketing manager, Lois Isemede, on Thursday, said the ... Read more

The International Relations Coordinator of Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University, Turkey, Prof Kubilay Ozyer, has said that Turkey gives a 90 per cent tuition waiver for African students. Ozyer made this known at the Goodmus Learning Centre, Lagos, while supervising the foreign students’ entrance examination into Turkish Universities. He ... Read more

The Federal Government yesterday threatened to invoke the policy of no work, no pay against the striking non-teaching staff in the universities. But the non-teaching staff have told the government that it is impossible to beat a child and ask him not to cry, accusing the government ... Read more

The Federal Government has threatened to stop the salaries of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions (NASU) over an indefinite strike they embarked on. In his opening remarks at a social dialogue between the unions and the Federal Government on ... Read more

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has said the Federal Government has reached an agreement with the leadership of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions (NASU) to call of their strike. Ngige said agreements were reached by parties with ... Read more