The chairman of JIgawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Professor Haruna Musa today escaped being lynched by aggrieved teachers popularly know as J-Teach at the Federal University Dutse (FUD), the venue of the proposed aptitude test for recruitment of 3,000 teachers. The prospective teachers, mostly youths, also blocked the entran...
All Bassey Sardauna, a teacher at the Government Day Secondary School Model, Jalingo, Taraba State, wanted was for his students to shun vices capable of impacting negatively on their pursuit for a better future. But his good heart and nature, based on findings, seemed to have earned him hatred among some errant students, eventually leading [&h...
•NANS protest Warring factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students have stormed the National Hospital, Abuja today, in protest over alleged delay by medical personnel in treating their colleagues who were injured during a NANS factional crisis earlier yesterday. Several patients have been forced to flee their hospital wards and be...
•Gunmen The Old Parade Ground, venue of the national convention of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) was today Friday, December 1, characterised by heavy shootings. The shootings, which started yesterday, continued today at the venue of the convention, which is a few distance away from the Defense Headquarters, Abuja, report...
•Ishaq Oloyede The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned some tertiary institutions against the practice where students are graduated and issued certificates without due matriculation. JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who raised concerns about the development, revealed that some of the affected institutions have fa...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accused the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) of admission racketeering. The examination body which welcomed the decision of the Senate to probe alleged admission racketeering in universities, maintained that it would be vindicated, reports The Guardian. Recall that the Senate had last ...
•Dapo Abiodun Students in Ogun State-owned tertiary institutions have demanded the immediate reversal of the hike in tuition. The students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ogun State, lamented that the hike they said is targeted at making life unbearable for them and the entire people of the state. Addr...
•Nigerian Senate After harmonising the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Budget, the Senate and the House of Representatives have raised the student loan appropriation to N10billion. Both chambers dropped the controversial presidential yacht, for which N5 billion was budgeted. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assured Nigerians after signing the bud...
The Lagos State University, Ojo, has removed the Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. Tajudeen Olumoko. His removal was in connection with a news report published on Monday by an online news platform (not The Frontier). The story revealed that a certificate racketeering syndicate had genuine Lagos State University certificates that anyone interested...
The federal government has upgraded the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education (AIFCE) to a university status. This was disclosed by the former provost of the AIFCE who is now the acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Stella Lemchi. She said: “We bring you warm greetings from the entire Community of Alvan Ikoku University of Education, Owerri. ...