The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has approved a final reopening for a period of 48 hours to enable tertiary institutions yet to complete their student verification exercise to do so. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday by Mrs Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, Director, Strategic Communications of the Fund....
The federal government has directed all tertiary institutions to submit detailed reports of unutilised Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) allocations within 30 days, warning that idle funds may be withdrawn and reassigned to priority projects. Education Minister Tunji Alausa issued the directive today in Abuja during a meeting with heads ...
•University of Ibadan main gate University of Ibadan, Oyo State, has been ranked Nigeria’s best university in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026. The ranking, published on THE’s website today, placed the Ibadan-based federal university between 801 and 1,000 globally and ahead of other leading Nigerian universities, a spo...
•Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke The immediate past President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has raised concern that over ₦600 billion in unutilised Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) allocations belonging to beneficiary institutions remain idle in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Speaking at the 2025...
•Tinubu and ASUU logo The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says the federal government’s appeal asking the union to suspend its proposed warning strike came a little too late. The union blamed the government for its slow response to their demands, lamenting that the government waited until just two working days before the strike [&h...
•Tinubu and ASUU logo The federal government has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to shelve its planned strike, assuring that it is committed to addressing all outstanding demands raised by the union. Addressing a news conference in Abuja today, the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, said the federal government is ...
The President of the AcademÂic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Chris Piwuna, has reÂstated that there is no going back on its planned two weeks nationÂwide warning strike over some lingering issues, if the federal government fails to respond on or before October 13 expiry date. The planned strike follows a two-week ultimatum issued by [&he...
•Prof Abayomi Fasina Ahead of next week’s resumption of the substantive Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Professor Abayomi Fasina, after a six-month research leave granted by the institution’s Governing Council, the leadership of both Christian and Muslim communities has dispelled the rumours of possible violence b...
•Students driven away from class for owing school fees A few years back, parents enrolled their children of one to three years of age in ‘Jeleosimi’ day care centres, since they sleep throughout the day learning little or nothing. Jeleosimi is a Yoruba term meaning, ‘let the household have peace’. It describes a school meant […]...
The Teachers Registration Council Of Nigeria (TRCN) has decried the lack of qualified teachers in Nigeria as one of the reasons for the drop in educational standards in the country. The Chief Executive Officer of the Council, Dr Ronke Soyombo, raised the alarm while appearing as a guest on Channels Television today, in celebration of […...
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