Worried by the rising incidences of insecurity across the country and wastages of taxpayers money, Comrade Akinteye Babatunde, President of the Senate, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has called on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to either complete all abandoned projects that dotted the campuse...
•FCT primary school teachers protest Primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), today, staged a protest at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The protesting teachers accused the FCT Area Councils of poor attention to their welfare, reports Channels TV. The teachers protested the non-payment of salary arrears, promotion arrears a...
The academic and non-academic staff unions of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, have began strike due to 11 months of unpaid salary. It was gathered that the workers through their various union leaders, had given the school’s management December 31 as deadline to settle the unpaid salaries, reports The Guardian. Following the industrial act...
•Candidates at a UTME centre The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has lamented the extortion of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates by some private secondary schools. Oloyede, who was a guest on Channels Television today, said that these private schools mismanag...
•National Universities Commission building, Abuja The National Universities Commission (NUC) has blamed the proliferation of illegal degree awarding institutions on parents whom he said had placed a premium on university certification. The Acting Executive Secretary, Mr Chris Maiyaki, said this today in Abuja during an interview with the News ...
•Youth Corps members on parade ground The management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has revealed that it has adopted digital solutions, including physical verification and other measures to expose and check incidences of mobilisation of fake graduates for the compulsory one year national service. The scheme has recently been enmeshed i...
Most tertiary institutions in the country have hiked their fees by over 150 %, putting serious strains on the finances of parents and guardians who also have to contend with the poor state of the economy which has reduced purchasing power and savings. Checks by our correspondents in public universities across the country show that […]
The Orientation programme for the newly admitted students of the School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies (SCEPS), University of Uyo (UniUyo), has been scheduled for Monday, January 22, 2024. This was made known this morning in a chat with the Director of SCEPS, Prof Lawrence Etim. Etim informed The Frontier that the event will ...
•Convo gowns A bus conveying the University of Lagos (UNILAG) post-graduate academic gowns has been vandalised. The gowns were said to be paid for and scheduled for distribution to the graduating students, reports Daily Trust. The institution holds its 54th convocation ceremony this week with a total of 340 graduands to be awarded first-class ...
•Protesting students Academic activities were grounded today at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, following students’ protests against a hike in the institution’s tuition fees. The students, who converged at the two gates leading to the school as early as 7 a.m., blocked the main gates of the school and barricaded the ever-busy Akur...

