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Three Cameroonian students, Fomusoh Ivo Feh, Afuh Nivelle Nfor and Azah Levis Gob who were convicted for sharing a Boko Haram joke, have been released. According to a statement by Amnesty International, the students were released after spending seven years in jail. The rights group also faulted the arrest and conviction of the Cameroonian ... Read more

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has presented a cheque of N3 million to 50 most deserving students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State. Presenting the cheque of N60,000 each to the beneficiaries, at the ASUU secretariat of the institution, the university branch chairman, Comrade Stephen Ufoaroh, said ... Read more

Omobolanle Adenle is one of the graduates at the 45th Convocation of the Obafemi Awolowo University held earlier this month. She gained admission to study Linguistics and African Languages in 2010, but instead of graduating in the 2014/2015 session, she graduated in 2021. While narrating her ordeal to Punch, Adenle who is now an ... Read more

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to take the lead in the 26th edition of the Nigerian Universities Games (NUGA). Sanwo-Olu gave the charge when he received the 2022 Nigerian Universities Games (NUGA) ”Torch of Unity” at Lagos House, Marina on Wednesday. The News Agency of ... Read more

Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife on Sunday debunked a circular purportedly issued by the university management stating that fees payable by the students have been increased. A release by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, stated that there is no iota of truth in the said ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has postponed its decision on strike, saying that consultations are still ongoing. This was contained in a press statement issued by the union after its National Executive Council meeting. The meeting held at its Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, on Saturday, December 18, 2021 to ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, lamented that the Federal Government has turned its members to farmers and taxi drivers. The ASUU accused the Federal Government of a deliberate attempt at impoverishing university lecturers by its blunt refusal to implement the Memorandum of Action signed with the union in 2020. The ... Read more

President Muhammadu Buhari, has been called upon to, as a matter of urgency sign the dichotomy bill seeking to abolish the discrimination between polytechnic and university graduates into law. National president of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Anderson Ezeibe, who echoed the call in Asaba on Wednesday last week, regretted ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Owerri Zone, has threatened a total showdown with the Federal Government over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement. The union said during a press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, on Monday that it would embark on an indefinite strike as “the magnanimity of ASUU that ... Read more

The latest ranking of Nigerian Universities has shown the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, as the best State University in the country. It returned it as the fourth-best overall university in Nigeria. The university, owned by the Oyo State government, comes after the University of Ibadan, Redeemers ... Read more