The heightening insecurity situation in Nasarawa State, North Central Nigeria, has now hit the citadel of learning as students of the Federal University of Lafia have come under heavy attacks by bandits and armed thugs who rape and inflict varying degrees of injury on the affected students. Sources within the University community who pleaded s...
•WAEC candidates The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the official release of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for school candidates. The council, in a statement issued today, Monday, August 4, 2025, via its official X Platform, formerly (Twitter), expressed satisfaction in noti...
A Final-Year student of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, identified simply as Blessing, has been found dead five days after she was declared missing. The late student was said to be in the Department of Micro-biology. Sources said she was seen last Sunday but got missing after an examination held the next day, […]
The Senate of Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU), Katsina, has approved the expulsion of about 57 students over involvement in various forms of examination malpractice. This is contained in a statement by the management and issued in Katsina today by Hajiya Fatima Sanda, the institution’s Head of Information and Protocol. According to the s...
•Governor Umaru Bago and IBB University main gate Niger State governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has directed the immediate reopening of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, months after it was shut down due to security concerns that claimed lives within the campus. In a statement issued today in Minna, Secretary to the State Gover...
•LASU main gate Academic and non-academic employees of the Lagos State University (LASU) have embarked on an indefinite strike over welfare and other unresolved issues with the management. Although details of the workers’ grievances were not immediately available at the time of filing this report, it was gathered that the industrial action beg...
All permanent and temporary orientation camps of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), across the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have come alive to begin the 2025 Batch B Stream 1 orientation course. An orientation course opens today with a swearing-in /opening ceremony presided over by th...
•Prof Isaac Adewole A former Minister of Health and 11th Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Isaac Adewole, has stated that the challenge of leadership emergence in Nigerian higher education institutions is emblematic of the broader governance issues in the country. The don and medical professional, who listed ethnicity, reg...
•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The federal government yesterday announced a 50 per cent increase in scholarship grants to Nigerian students across all tertiary levels. It said the “landmark reform of Nigeria’s national scholarship programme —its most ambitious overhaul in more than a decade,” was aimed at easing the financial burden on s...
•ASUU President Chris Piwuna The current National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, says that he and his administration will sustain the demand for university autonomy. This was even as his immediate predecessor, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, stated that poor treatment of university lecturers is respons...
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