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Friday Olokor, Abuja Proprietors of Private Polytechnics in Nigeria on Thursday disagreed with lecturers that tertiary institutions should remain closed to activities due to COVID-19 pandemic, saying that they were not sincere. Lecturers under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics had declared ... Read more

Friday Olokor and Leke Baiyewu THE Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has insisted that state governments must conduct risk assessment of schools before reopening them. The PTF also stated that safety measures must be put in place before students were asked to return to educational facilities. The National Coordinator of PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, ... Read more

By Oluwatosin Ojebisi MANY teachers have had to grapple with the impact of the unprecedented coronavirus disease, COVID-19, which made schools all over the world to shutdown activities and adopt the online form of learning. But, having realised that online learning comes with its challenges and may not be sustainable especially in communities ... Read more

Ada Wodu, Calabar Professor Florence Obi of the Faculty of Education has broken a 45-year jinx by emerging the first female Vice-Chancellor-elect of the University of Calabar, Cross River State. She emerged top after a rigorous screening exercise involving 12 other candidates. Obi will take over from Prof. Zana Akpagu, whose tenure ends on ... Read more

By Bose Adelaja A 26 years old teacher Mathew Adebayo, was Friday, arrested for defiling a 15 years old Senior Secondary Student (SSS) 3 student in Sango, Ogun.State. The suspect was a teacher with a private school in the Sango area where the victim currently writes her final ... Read more

Grace Edema The Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State has said only the final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students will resume on September 14 while the other levels will resume on November 9. A statement signed by the Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Ademola Adekoya, said only final year students at ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof Lilian Salami, has approved a virtual matriculation ceremony for students admitted into the 2019/2020 academic session of the university. The varsity’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Benedicta Ehanire, disclosed this in a statement in Benin on Friday. Ehanire said, “The event holds on ... Read more

By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie First year students of the Lagos State University (LASU) will have to wait till January 11, 2021 to resume in-person classes. Until then, their classes will be online according to the resumption schedule released by the university on Friday. Those to resume on Monday are students in terminal classes (400, 500 and ... Read more

By Hammed Shittu The President, Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) Professor Biodun Ogunyemi yesterday said that, the union had set up committee that would be monitoring the activities of lecturers in the public universities so as to put a stop to the issue of “Sex for Marks” among lecturers. Speaking in Ilorin, ... Read more

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue state government has convened a meeting of stakeholders in the education sector to discuss the modalities for the reopening of schools in the state after the COVID-19 total lockdown. Addressing the gathering yesterday in Makurdi, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar said the meeting was to enable ... Read more