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The management of Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa has released the registration process for the newly admitted ND and HND for the 2020/2021 session. Candidates are to follow the below procedures to ensure completion of the registration process. REGISTRATION PROCESS 1. ACCEPTANCE OF ADMISSION On the Polytechnic website www.fedpolynas.edu.ng , click the Portal menu to access the Portal or ... Read more

The federal government has said it will review the proposed January 18 resumption date for schools, as the country battles the second wave of COVID-19. The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, stated this while speaking at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Monday. Adamu noted the earlier resumption date of January 18 ... Read more

Malam Adamu AdamuThe Federal Ministry of Education says the Jan.18, 2021 date for schools to resume is not sacrosanct, hence a new date may be announced depending on the nation’s COVID-19 indicators. The Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu gave the hint on Monday in Abuja, at the joint national briefing of the Presidential Task ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, insisted that Nigerian universities in the country are not ready to re-open at the moment. The Union said it finds it difficult to return to classes in the middle of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recall that the National Universities Commission (NUC) had earlier directed the ... Read more

Gbenga Odogun, Lokoja Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State, on Tuesday, embarked on a peaceful protest, to herald the three-day warning strike notice it issued the Federal Government. As early as 8 am, the placard-carrying university workers took over the gates and other areas ... Read more

As the University of Port Harcourt plans to resume academic activities on February 1, 2021, following its senate’s decision, the institution said it has put in place measures of enforcing COVID-19 safety measures to avert any disruption of its academic activities by the second wave of the pandemic. The Public Relations Officer of the ... Read more

Workers at The Polytechnic Ibadan, on Monday, vowed not to succumb to pressure as they began an indefinite strike over the non-implementation of the minimum wage by the Oyo State Government. A joint committee of all staff unions in the institution, comprising the academic and non-academic staff, held that the governing council and the Oyo ... Read more

Vice-Chancellors of some federal and state universities in Nigeria have expressed readiness to reopen schools. Though the Academic Staff Union of Universities had said that varsities were not ready for reopening, the VCs said they had planned to reopen their institutions as directed by the Federal Government. One of the VCs of a federal ... Read more

The Senate of Ekiti State University (EKSU) has announced that the institution would resume online academic activities from January 18 due to the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This was contained in a statement signed by Bode Olofinmuagun, Head, Directorate and Corporate Affairs and released to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on ... Read more

The says it would reopen its 4,816 schools on January 18 for the 2020/2021 academic session, according to Aliyu Tilde, the state commissioner of education. The federal government is currently considering rescheduling the of schools across the country from January 18 due to the spike in COVID-19 cases. “We would reopen the schools ... Read more