The National Examinations Council (NECO) today succumbed to pressure from the lower chamber of the National Assembly and announced an indefinite postponement of the 2024 Staff Promotion Examination. The decision of the examination body to centralized the staff promotion examination earlier Scheduled to hold on February 14 and 15, 2024 in Minna...
Students of Plateau State University, Bokkos have embarked on a protest to express dissatisfaction with the continuous industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has been going on for three months. The aggrieved students went through the major streets in Jos, the state capital and terminated the prote...
•Gen sets Two students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, have died after inhaling fumes from a power-generating set placed close to the window of their apartment overnight. The state police public relations officer, SP William Ovye Aya, confirmed this in a telephone interview with our correspondent today. Aya disclosed that the deceased were ...
•FUTA students Students of the Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, today, protested what they described as incessant robbery attacks against them off the campus of the institution. The protesters, who were singing various solidarity songs, barricaded the busy Akure -Ilesa Road, causing gridlock on the expressway, reports The PU...
The House of Representatives has resolved to probe alleged certificate racketeering by Nigerian students in collusion with some officials of government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs). This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Abubakar Fulata (APC-Jigawa) at plenary in Abuja, reports NAN. Presenting the motion, Fulata said th...
The Michael Okpara University, Umudike, Abia State has suspended indefinitely its ongoing academic activities following the protest by students against the increment of school fees in the early hours of yesterday. It was learnt from a statement by the Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. Maduebibisi Iwe, that academic activities of the institu...
A 31-year-old 400-level female student of Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Adaeze Doris Jaja, has committed suicide in a hotel in the town. She was found lying unconscious and foaming at the mouth in a freezer, with an empty bottle of Sniper 1000EC/DDVP seen beside her, reports Nigerian Tribune. Confirming the incident, [&...
•UBEC boss, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said Nigeria is expeÂriencing a severe learning crisis that requires immediate action to address. Speaking at a two-day stakeÂholders ‘Dialogue on Reading Initiative in the UBE Programme and the Use of Mother Tongue/...
A 300-level student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, Miss IfeOluwa Adekunle, has been found dead in her room in a house outside the university campus. Her lifeless body was discovered on Saturday and investigation by the police revealed that the IfeOluwa was attacked by yet-to-identified assailant(s), reports Ch...
•Some of the kidnapped school children The pupils and teachers of the Apostolic Faith Montessori School in Emure Ekiti kidnapped on January 29 have regained their freedom. The schoolchildren were released earlier today. However, the driver, who was also among the abductees, was killed and burnt by the assailants, reports Channels TV. Efforts t...
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