•Tinubu The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has vowed that it will fight against the increase in school fees across tertiary institutions. The NANS President, Lucky Emonefe made this vow at a stakeholders’ press conference in Abuja yesterday, when some student leaders, including the newly-elected NANS Senate President, Afeez Ak...
The management of University of Calabar, UNICAL, has suspended the new charges and levies it announced earlier, till further notice. This is coming on the heels of the peaceful protest by students of the institution today over the decision of management to increase their tuition fees and other levies. In a statement signed by the […]
•Gunmen The management of Gateway ICT Polytechnic, Sapaade, Ogun State, today, announced the closure of the institution following incessant robbery attacks on students. The management directed the students to stay out off school for the next two weeks. Armed robbers had been attacking students of the polytechnic, dispossessing them of their va...
•Students protest Academic activities were today grounded at the University of Calabar, following the students’ protest against the 100 per cent hike in the institution’s tuition fees. The university had released a new schedule of fees that would take effect in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 academic sessions, reports NAN. The students, who embar...
The management of the University of Calabar (Unical) has announced an increase in the university’s tuition fees for undergraduates by over 100 percent. The announcement was made in a statement made available to newsmen in Calabar today. In the statement by the institution’s spokesman, Mr Effiong Eyo, said the upward review of the fees was [&he...
•Tinubu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Tinubu-led federal government to rescind its decision on the students’ loan scheme and replace it with grants instead. Zonal Coordinator of ASUU Bauchi Zone, Comrade Lazarus Maigoro, who made the appeal yesterday on the occasion of the award of annual indigent scholarshi...
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...