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The Chairman of Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LSUBEB), Wahab Alawiye-King, and other board members have sought the collaboration of the Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Task Force) to secure schools. During the inter-agency visit, Alawiye-King called for the support of the unit in eradicating vandalisation of school ... Read more

The outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Prof. Labode Popoola, has stated that the Establishment Law of the University, which was enacted in 2006, makes it clear that whoever will become VC must be a doctorate degree holder. He also revealed that he had no problem with a medical fellowship or doctorate degree holder having worked with a Vice-Chancellor in the ... Read more

…129 ATBU, UNIJOS, KASHERE lecturers affected The Bauchi Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has claimed the Federal Government has withheld 13 months’ salaries of 129 lecturers of the University of Jos UNIJOS), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi and Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State. Recently, ... Read more

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Lilian Salami, on Wednesday, rescinded the decision to impose N20,000 late registration fee on students of the institution. Trouble started on Tuesday when the students took to the street to protest the fee, as they blocked the Lagos-Benin Expressway and the Ekheuna Road, where both ... Read more

Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has emerged as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU). The don is the wife of ex-Secretary to the State Government and current Commissioner for Environment, Tunji Bello. Ibiyemi becomes the ninth LASU VC after months of an intriguing selection process. In May, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu canceled the exercise and for not following extant ... Read more

ABUJA – As more than 37 Nigerian will begin the new school year this month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has declared that a minimum of one million will be left behind owing to insecurity. Learners are being cut off from their education and other vital benefits schools provide, as families and communities ... Read more

THE Federal Government has again appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities to exercise patience as the process of implementing its agreement with the union is ongoing. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this in an exclusive interview with our correspondent. This was as ASUU President accused the ... Read more

LAGOS – Education is a complex human endeavour ultimately aimed at enhancing students’ cognitive, civic, as well as social learning and development. As late South African leader, Nelson Mandela, put it, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Like medicine, law, or farming, ... Read more

The Rivers State University said it has received an approval for the award of a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery. The Vice Chancellor, Prof Nlerum Okogbule, who disclosed this during a media briefing in Port Harcourt, explained that the approval followed the result of an accreditation carried out by the Medical and Dental ... Read more

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said education, especially for women, has a multiplier effect. This is as he said leaders owe their people the duty to educate them. Osinbajo said this in Abuja on Saturday evening at an event organised to mark the 2021 Mass Literacy Day by the MALLPAI Foundation, a non-governmental organisation founded in ... Read more