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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered full resumption of tertiary institutions across Lagos State on Monday, September 14, after about six months shutdown occasioned by the outbreak of ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. Sanwo-Olu, however, fixed a tentative resumption date for primary and secondary schools on September 21. As part of ... Read more

Friday Olokor, Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it had lifted the suspension earlier placed on the printing of admission letters, inter-university transfers among others. The organisation said with the development, “all requests for printing of admission letters, inter-university transfers and other processes for ... Read more

By Adeola Badru THE Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, weekend, warned that except the Federal Government addressed the demands of non-teaching staff in the nation’s universities, they would also proceed on strike immediately schools reopened. At a briefing in Ibadan, National Vice President of SSANU, Mr. Alfred ... Read more

Some education stakeholders in Lagos have lauded the state government on the planned reopening of schools in an effort to gradually ease the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The stakeholders made the commendation in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday. The state Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday ... Read more

A total of 30 artistes graduated from MUSON School of Music in Lagos on Saturday after a two-year scholarship awarded by MTN Foundation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the virtual ceremony, held at Shell Hall of MUSON centre, was attended virtually by family and friends in accordance with COVID-19 protocols. Mr Dennis Okoro, ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, are to resume in batches beginning from September, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, disclosed this on Monday. Speaking on a radio interview monitored in Lagos, he explained that 400, 500 and 600 levels students would resume first before other levels of ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab The Special Visitation Panel, SVP, set up by the Federal Government to look into the lingering crisis at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, is expected to begin sitting on Monday, August 31. In a statement by the Secretary to the SVP, Mrs Grace Ekanem, titled, “Special Visitation Panel to the University of Lagos: ... Read more

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South AT last, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has paid $5,901,000 to 197 scholarship beneficiaries of 2019, while payment procedures for 94 beneficiaries of 2018 were ongoing. Director of Corporate Affairs, NDDC, Mr. Charles Odili, in response to Vanguard inquiry, on Monday, said among the 197 ... Read more

CALABAR zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that Universities clamouring for the re-opening of Nigeria Universities are those serving as cash cows to some governments. The Coordinator of the zone, Dr Aniekan Brown of the Department of Sociology Anthropology, University of Uyo (UNIUYO) who made the assertion ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to implement the 2019 Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with the union. ASUU also urged the government to release fund for revitalisation of the Nigerian university system for the development of the education sector. Prof. Theophilus Lagi, the ASUU, Abuja ... Read more