•Governor Dikko Umaru Radda of Katsina State The Katsina State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public schools across the state following escalating security threats and banditry attacks reported in several communities. Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Yusuf Sulaiman Jibia, confirmed the directive today while ...
The federal government, through the National Universities Commission (NUC), has placed a ban on the award of honorary doctorate degrees to serving public officials. The Commission said the decision followed the alleged misuse of such degrees, reports The Nation. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Abdullahi Ribadu, announced the ban toda...
•Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State The Kwara State government has ordered the closure of more than fifty schools across five local government areas of the state. The affected LGAs are Ifelodun, Ekiti, Irepodun, Isin and Oke Ero, reports Daily Trust. The decision follows a renewed surge in bandit attacks in parts of the state. [&he...
•Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Benin Zone, yesterday, rejected the proposed salary increment by the federal government. The zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof. Monday Lewis Igbafen, made this known in Benin while briefing newsmen on the stand of the zone on the proposed increment. Igbafen,...
University lecturers have cautioned that a fresh confrontation with the federal government may be unavoidable, citing unfulfilled agreements and what they described as a continued lack of genuine commitment during negotiations. The Abuja Zonal Coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Adam Al-Amin Abdullahi, sta...
Parents of student beneficiaries of the federal government’s Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship programme have staged a protest at the the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja over the non-payment of 16 months of arrears of living allowances. They occupied the entrance of the ministry with placards, reports Channels TV. The federa...
•FUTA main gate The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has threatened to withdraw the certificate of any of its alumni found culpable of misconduct. Prof. Adenike Oladiji, Vice Chancellor, FUTA, said this on Friday at the 36th Convocation and Award of First Degrees of the university, where a total of 2,747 students graduated, repor...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on University Education has called for an immediate overhaul of infrastructure and facilities at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State, warning that the nation cannot afford to neglect a specialised institution critical to the development of manpower...
•Lagos State University main gate Lagos State University (LASU) management yesterday said only 197 out of a total of 4,095 courses offered across the institution are delivered primarily online. It said these are specifically large lectures with enrolments exceeding 400 students, reports The Nation. LASU, in a statement by Deputy Registrar and ...
The federal government has cancelled the national policy mandating the use of indigenous languages as the medium of instruction in schools, citing poor performance in public examinations. The government said Nigerian children had been performing abysmally in public examinations as a result of being taught in their mother tongue, reports The Na...
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