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President MnangagwaZimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law barring government schools from excluding girls, who fall pregnant, from attending lessons. Teachers are also no longer allowed to cane pupils, under amendments to the Education Act, which became law on Saturday. The new law also says that no pupil shall be excluded ... Read more

The Registrar of the institution, Mrs Modupe Fawale, said this in a statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Solafoye Adewole, on Sunday, in Ibadan. According to the registrar, all Deans, heads of academic departments and all non-teaching staff on grade levels 11 to 14 and those on essential duties are to ... Read more

The chief medical officers of the United Kingdom have said children should return to school after the summer holidays, warning that missing out on their education posed much bigger risks to them than catching COVID-19, reports. The rare joint statement from the top health advisers to the governments of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern ... Read more

-Wants members enrolled in UTAS By Onyebuchi Ezigbo Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has formally written to the federal government, requesting for a date for the reopening of negotiations, which were abandoned in February due to the disagreement over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System ... Read more

By Yunus Abdulsalam The University of Lagos saga began with the removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe on Tuesday, the 12th of August. There was uproar in various sections of the community that due process was not followed in the removal of the said Vice-Chancellor. The allegations made against the Vice-Chancellor were so ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab The Senate of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, is currently meeting at the Main Auditorium of the university to select an acting Vice Chancellor for the institution. The meeting is holding under tight security provided by policemen from Sabo Division of the Nigeria Police, and security men from the institution.

Sodiq Oyeleke and Grace Edema Professor Folasade Ogunsola has secured the highest number of votes in the election held by members of the University of Lagos Senate to choose an acting Vice-Chancellor. She was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Development Services at the UNILAG before her emergence. The result of the election obtained by one of our ... Read more

File: StudentsGov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom on Monday said that a student writing the ongoing West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) examination in the state had tested positive for COVID-19. Emmanuel who made the disclosure in a media chat in Uyo, did not mentioned the name of the student and the school involved. The governor said the ... Read more

Sodiq Oyeleke The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says the Federal Government has started considering full reopening schools. Nwajiuba said this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja, monitored by our correspondent. Though he said no date has been fixed yet for full ... Read more

Eniola Akinkuotu and Grace Edema The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who is also the Visitor to the University of Lagos, has appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Channels Television, Mr. John Momoh, as the acting chairman of UNILAG Governing Council. This is contained in a letter dated August 21, 2020 and signed by the ... Read more