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The Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU], Calabar Zone has raised alarm over the decaying condition of state Universities in Nigeria. The union has charged Nigerian Governors to quit playing politics with the establishment of multiple state Universities, but to rather focus on updating existing ones to an acceptable standard. ... Read more

The Rector, Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, Usman Salisu Ogbo, has announced the suspension of a staff in the institution for allegedly forcing students to buy textbooks before they would pass their examinations. Ogbo disclosed this when the President, National Association of Nigeria Students, (NANS) Comrade Sunday Asefon, alongside his ... Read more

Students in the South-East may miss West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Monday’s sitting due to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) order. The organization ordered the people in the region to stay away from schools, markets, banks and other public places every Monday. The directive was issued as part of the pressure against the ... Read more

DAMATURU – The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim has urged Corp members in Yobe State to present themselves for the Covid-19 vaccination. He made the plea during the swearing in ceremony of the 2021 batch ‘B’ stream II Corp members, was represented by the NYSC ... Read more

A total of 278 students graduated at the 2021 valedictory service of Chrisland Schools. The joint ceremony, titled, ‘Destined for Greatness and Distinction,’ was held virtually across the four of its branches, which include Chrisland College Idimu, Chrisland High School VGC, Chrisland High School Ikeja and Chrisland High School ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called on the National Assembly to as a matter of urgency pass into Law a Bill that will amend the Nigeria Universities Commission NUC Act which allows for the uncontrollable establishment of State Universities. ASUU believes that the proliferation of state-owned Universities would only ... Read more

ENTUGU – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it’s ready to resume the union suspended strike last if Federal Government fails to do the needful Comrade Raphael the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Nsukka Zone disclosed this in Nsukka on Friday while briefing journalists at the end of the union 2-day meeting in ... Read more

Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) Kano Zone has described the Nigerian government as insincere and deceptive for failing to honour the Memorandum of Action (MoA) signed on December 23 of last year. Addressing journalists at the headquarters of the union at Bayero University Kano yesterday, the chairman of the ... Read more

The Presidential Visitation Panel to the University of Lagos has said it detected cases of contract splitting and frivolous contract awards at the institution. The seven member panel which was headed by Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (retd.), stated this in its report to the Federal Government which was made available to The PUNCH on Sunday. The ... Read more

The chairman House of Representatives Committee on Reformatory Institutions and member representing Ezza North Ishielu Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Hon Anayo Edwin-Nwonu, has called on Federal Government and ASUU to hold a frank dialogue to avert another strike by lecturers in Nigerian universities. ASUU is threatening to embark ... Read more