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Some members of the University of Lagos Senate have berated Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro Chancellor, Dr Wale Babalakin, over the humiliation and removal of the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. Ogundipe’s removal was announced on Wednesday after a council meeting at the National Universities ... Read more

Abuja — President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has said the emergence of COVID-19, has exposed the level of under investment in the nation’s health and education sectors. He said the pandemic has also thrown up the need for government all over the world to prioritize education and health care as they shape ... Read more

Uyo — The Akwa Ibom state government says it is satisfied with the preparedness of schools across the state for students in exit classes to write their exit examinations. The state government has also rescheduled the 2019 promotion examinations for civil servants from Grade Level 07 and above in order to ensure uniformity and fairness ... Read more

Wale BabalakinBy Adesina Wahab, Joseph Erunke, Elizabeth Osayande and Mary Obaebor The lingering face-off between the Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, UNILAG, Professor Toyin Ogundipe and the Chairman, Governing Council of the institution, Dr Wale Babalakin, SAN, came to a head-on Wednesday as the Council announced the after a meeting held ... Read more

The of the University of Lagos on Thursday appointed Prof Theophilus Soyombo as the Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution. A statement by the Registrar/Secretary to the Council, Oladejo Azeez, said the Council made the appointment at a meeting held in the early hours of Thursday in Abuja. The statement urged the public to disregard ... Read more

Oyo State Government has warned private school owners to desist from demanding illegal fees from students who are at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chairman, Oyo State Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, Pastor Akinade Alamu, stated this on a radio programme in Ibadan while answering questions pertaining to developments on the ... Read more

THE newly appointed governing council chairman of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Professor Kunle Akinyemi, says the council has approved the outstanding promotions of staff of the institution across the board. Professor Akinyemi gave the hint while addressing newsmen at the end of the inaugural meeting with members of the council, held ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities of the University of Maiduguri has shared bags of rice and money to lecturers of the institution. The UNIMAID ASUU Chairman, Dr Dani Mamman, said the move became necessary as the lecturers were being owed five months’ salaries. Mamman, told The PUNCH that funds from the ASUU cooperative ... Read more

The Federal Government on Wednesday distanced itself from the purported sacking of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, by its Governing Council, saying it has not been briefed. THE PUNCH , said the VC was sacked “based on an investigation of serious acts of wrongdoing, gross misconduct, financial ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab All the industrial unions in the University of Lagos, UNILAG, operating under the aegis of Joint Staff Union, JSU, are currently holding a Congress where the issue of the sack of the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, by the Governing Council is the main item on the agenda. Our correspondent, who ... Read more