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Oluwaseun Adebimpe Adeyeye, 23, recently registered her name in the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State hall of fame of best graduating female students like Aishat Farooq, Chika Stephen, Oroh Eloho, Oyindamola Badejo, Hamzat Temitope and Alimi Gbemisola, among others. OYENIRAN APATA captured her mood. Twenty-three-year-old Oluwaseun ... Read more

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Lagos chapter, Dr Dele Ashiru, has revealed that Nigerian professors do not earn more than N416,000 as monthly salary. Ashiru disclosed this during an interview on the Sunrise Daily programmed on Channels Television, stating that university lecturers deserved better welfare ... Read more

The Non Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated institutions (NASU) has said it may be forced to resume nationwide industrial action if the federal government ignores its appeal to reverse the disparity in the sharing of the next tranche of the Earned Allowances. In passing a vote of no confidence on the Implementation of the ... Read more

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has resolved to meet with the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed; Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu; as well as the representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in his office on Thursday in order to stop the impending industrial action. The House has ... Read more

Management of the University of Ilorin has expelled one of its students, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa, of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer of the same department. Tribune Online gathered that the student has just a few months to graduate from the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life ... Read more

No fewer than 12,860 Nigerians are enrolled in over 1,000 educational institutions in the United States, the 2021 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange has said. The report released on Monday by the Institute of International Education and the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs highlights ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday gave the Federal Government an ultimatum of three weeks over failure to fulfill lingering demands. This is coming as the Senior Staff Association of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities met today to deliberate next moves over the failure of the Federal Government to ... Read more

The Joint Action Committee of Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities will on Monday meet to determine the next move following the failure of the Federal Government to reach out to the unions on the payment and sharing formula of N22.13bn earned allowances ... Read more

A 400-level student of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty Of Life Sciences, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, has reportedly beaten his project supervisor, a female lecturer, to stupor. Tribune Online gathered that the student, simply identified as Captain Walz, is a popular student in the school and reportedly carried out the ugly act ... Read more

The Governing Council of the University of Jos, Plateau State, has approved the appointment of Professor Tanko Ishaya as the new Vice-Chancellor.According to a statement by the Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications, of the institution, Mr. Abdullahi Abdullahi, Professor Ishaya is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of the ... Read more