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The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics of the Yaba College of Technology, has complained about the illegal manner at which teaching staff of the polytechnic are taking over some positions meant for non-teaching staff. Yabatech-SSANIP in a communiqué, threatened to go on strike if the situation was not rectified by ... Read more

Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, has reappointed Dr Folorunso Alakija, as the chancellor, Osun State University, Osogbo for another five-year tenure. The public relations officer of the university, Ademola Adesoji, in a statement on Monday, said Alakija was reappointed based on her track record. The statement described Alakija as a ... Read more

There was a clash between Muslim and Christian faithful on Wednesday in Ilorin after the Kwara State Government reopened 10 schools shut over hijab (Islamic headscarf) controversy. It was learnt that students wearing hijab were disallowed from entering Baptist School, Surulere by some protesting Christians. An eyewitness told our correspondent ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Monday, paraded two of its staff members for allegedly extorting money from Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates with the promise to help them secure university admission. The affected employees are Andy Okoro, a level 12 officer in Delta State’s JAMB office, who confessed ... Read more

DISTURBED by the public outcry over the non-release of the results of 30,000 students from Niger State who sat for the 2019/2020 Senior Secondary School Examinations by the National Examinations Council, the state House of Assembly has directed its Committee on Education and that of Legislative Compliance. The committees are to investigate ... Read more

The Ogun State Police Command said it arrested a 41-year-old lecturer in the Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, Dr Stephen Ukenna, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student of the institution. The suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at the Ota area command by the parents of the victim. The state ... Read more

The Christian community in Ilorin has vowed to continue their protest against the use of hijab by Muslim girls in the ten mission schools closed down by the State government. A credible source within the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, who preferred not to be named, informed DAILY POST in Ilorin on Thursday, ... Read more

Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday convicted a lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Abdullahi Opashola, and twin brothers, Taiye and Kehinde Adebayo, over offences bordering on impersonation and Internet fraud. Opashola and the Adebayos were prosecuted by the Economic ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has said it will commence a nationwide indefinite strike beginning April 6, 2021 in all the nation’s polytechnics over unresolved issues between its members and the federal and some state governments. The union also advocated the immediate reconstitution of governing councils for federal and ... Read more

The Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Temitope Onuminya, have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants. Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. According to Mrs Oguama, the ... Read more