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The National Examination Council (NECO) has said 233,000 candidates would write the examination in February. NECO said candidates who could not write the examinations due to the End SARS crisis will take it alongside as external candidates. This was disclosed by Azeez Sani, Head of Information and Public Relations Division of the ... Read more

The Edo State chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed primary school teachers across the state to embark on an indefinite strike from Jan. 18. The directive is contained in a jointly signed by the union’s state Chairman and Assistant Secretary-General, Pius Okhueleigbe and Moni Itua respectively and made available to ... Read more

As the non-academic staff of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti (EKSU) under the auspices of Joint Action Committee of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU ) join the national strike, a call has gone to Governor Kayode Fayemi to increase subvention to the institution. The staff, who ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has inaugurated the COVID-19 Taskforce Central team for the institution under the leadership of Dr Kingsley Akaba. Other members of the team include Dr Paul Odey of the faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Dr Leku ... Read more

Members of Joint Action Committee of the Delta State University, Abraka during the a peaceful rally to press home their demands.…Reject 25 Per Cent Payment Of Earned Allowances Following perceived marginalization of unions in Nigerian universities by the Federal Government, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the non-teaching ... Read more

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has said the university would not be able to admit more than 10,146 out of 32,333 candidates who applied to the university for the 2019/2020 academic session across departments at the undergraduate level. He also said the university had received 14, 350 ... Read more

LEGAL luminary and the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, on Wednesday condemned the mass closure of schools by the Federal Government over the COVID-19 second wave scare, describing it as unconstitutional and disastrous. The ABUAD founder, who said the blanket closure was counter-productive, “disturbing, ... Read more

A 100-level undergraduate of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rivers State, Ami Ugochukwu, has been awarded a four-year comprehensive scholarship, N200,000 upkeep allowance and an award of excellence for his honesty and good conduct. It was learnt that the student distinguished himself after returning a lost phone he found, which ... Read more

JUST as COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact negatively on nations of the world, the Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure, has recorded a feat through one of its senior academics, Dr Gideon Idowu of the Department of Chemistry. Dr Idowu won two international grants for research projects seeking to investigate the Ecological Impact ... Read more

Students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, have kicked at a recent hike in tuition fees by the institution’s management, demanding a reversal to the old fees within two weeks beginning from last Friday, January 8. The students said they had been gravely disturbed over the hike in fees, and so had been engaging all relevant ... Read more