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By Joseph Erunke — Abuja The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Tuesday, said its University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS which it developed as an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, was read for integrity tests. The university lecturers’ body which said it had ... Read more

Kenyan teenager Bella Achieng Otieno wants nothing more than to return to her classroom, growing anxious about her future with every passing day her school is closed because of coronavirus. “I feel bad because ‘corona’ has destroyed everything, and we cannot go to school. I pray so that the corona thing should be ... Read more

THE Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, University of Lagos, UNILAG, yesterday, endorsed the appointment of Prof. Theophilus Omololu Soyombo, as the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the university by the Governing Council. NASU, in a statement endorsed by its UNILAG chapter Chairman, Kehinde Ajibade and the Chairman of the College of Medicine, University ... Read more

The leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked both Federal and State Governments to immediately pay all the arrears of the withheld salaries of its members to pave for further discussion on the outstanding issues that led to indefinite strike declared on March 23rd 2020. The Union also, on Tuesday, unveiled its ... Read more

An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old teacher, Thomas Joshua, to 28 months imprisonment for stealing N28,000. The Judge, Malam Lawal Suleiman, sentenced Joshua after he pleaded guilty to breach of trust and theft. Delivering judgment on the first count of theft, Suleiman, however, gave the ... Read more

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has warned vice-chancellors in Nigerian universities to stop giving honorary degrees randomly. Fashola said this on Tuesday, August 18, during a meeting with the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Daily Times reports. He also urged them to focus on research and channel the data in their confines to guide the ... Read more

Ahead of the national examinations in the country which kicked-off with the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination on August 17, school proprietors and principals explained to Funmi Ogundare the efforts they have made to ensure that exit students succeed at the exams, including intensive revision while considering the safety ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab The Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Prof. Omololu Soyombo, on Wednesday addressed members of staff of the university and promised to take the issue of their welfare serious This is just as he said his appointment as the Acting VC is in order, saying there are no Deputy Vice-Chancellors approved by the Governing Council. Soyombo, who addressed the ... Read more

Following the ongoing scenario in the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the governing council of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has called for a more robust relationship between the council and the management for the development of universities in the country. The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of FUOYE, Dr Mohammed ... Read more

THE firm handling the ongoing Computer Based Test for recruitment of teachers in Oyo State has dismissed an allegation that the exercise was aimed at Christianizing the state. The firm, Educational Advancement Centre, Ibadan, disclosed this through the Chief Strategic Officer, EAC, Pastor Muyiwa Bamgbose, during the inspection of the ongoing ... Read more