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ABUJA- Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University, Prof. Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi, has said it is pointless for universities in the country to produce graduates with first class, but lack job-enabling skills. The newly appointed Vice Chancellor said this against the proliferation of first class graduates from both public and private tertiary ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned of imminent crisis in the nation’s universities if the six months’ salary arrears owed members in two universities is not paid immediately. In a release issued yesterday by Comrades Chinyere Echendu and Francis Nkaa, Chairperson and Secretary respectively of the Michael ... Read more

-Probably the only VC in Nigeria to allocate security votes to himself Tobi Soniyi and Bayo Akinloye As the crisis at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) rages on, the institution’s Pro Chancellor, Dr. Wale Babalakin, has opened a can of cankerworms in which he accused Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the ousted Vice Chancellor of the university ... Read more

Professor Ogundipe and BabalakinYou erred ― Senate Babalakin wants to create anarchy ― ASUU Committee of VCs calls for due process We are waiting for government’s position ― NAPTAN By Adesina Wahab The crisis rocking the University of Lagos, UNILAG, took a new turn at the weekend as the ... Read more

Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, says no date has been fixed for resumption of academic activities for students of the university who had been out of school since the outbreak of COVID-19. Abdulkareem, who stated this on Monday while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, added that the Federal Government had yet ... Read more

By Ikechukwu Odu — Nsukka The Catholic bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Rev. Prof. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah, has joined the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS to call for the re-opening of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The students’ body had recently urged the federal government to re-open tertiary institutions in the ... Read more

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja A candidate who tested positive for COVID-19 in Gombe State on Monday wrote his first paper in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination from an isolation centre. The unnamed male candidate wrote his Mathematics examination under the supervision of an invigilator who was fully kitted in a Personal ... Read more

The Federal Government has assured the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), that all schools in the country, including tertiary institutions, would reopened only when it is safe to do so. The Chairman of Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 pandemic and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, gave ... Read more

The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rashid Adamu, has disclosed that the commission has found some fake institution of higher learning in some African countries who award Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degrees to Nigerian students in less than one year of the programme. He also disclosed that ... Read more

Some public secondary schools in Imo State are reportedly charging students N2,000 per subject to provide them with answers to questions in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The school owners met with students before the commencement of the examination where they informed them that they would provide the answers ... Read more