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...
•Tinubu and NYSC members President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate employment of 200 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) honorees into the federal civil service. The president speaking yesterday also announced ₦250,000 cash award for the 200 honorees in recognition of their outstanding service during the 2020–2023 service years, reports...
•Tunji Alausa Minister of Education Tunji Alausa has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is determined to ensure that there are no industrial actions in the education sector. Alausa, who spoke yesterday as a guest on a national television programme, said the president had directed his team to ensure that the Academic Staff Union ...
Nigerian banks have resumed processing international tuition payments from Naira accounts through the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s Form A portal. Form A is an application form designed by the Central Bank of Nigeria to pay for service transactions (invisible trade), reports Vanguard. The form allows customers to purchase forex at the CBN or ...
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