•House of Reps The House of Representatives Committee on Polytechnics and other Higher Technical Education has expressed shock over the discovery that Federal Polytechnic Ugep, Cross Rivers State, spends over N600 million on personnel and overhead costs despite having only 142 students and 154 academic and non-academic staff. This was discover...
•Prof Edoba Omoregie Prof. Edoba Omoregie of the Faculty of Law today assumed office as the 11th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin. In his inaugural speech, Omoregie pledged to revolutionise the university and create an environment where students, faculty, and staff feel valued and supported in their academic and career pu...
•FCT Minister Nyesom Wike Three days to round off first term examination by the primary school pupils in the Federal Capital Territory, their teachers have embarked on a fresh strike action over non-compliance with the new minimum wage of N70,000 by the area councils of the territory. Primary school pupils in the FCT have experienced […...
•Youth Corps members The Kwara State Government has launched an investigation into an alleged assault on a female member of the National Youth Service Corps by teachers at Government Day Secondary School, Kulende, Ilorin, in the Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state. A female corps member (name withheld) was yesterday reportedly assau...
•Youth Corps members The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reopened its orientation camp in Zamfara State after a sixteen-month closure due to security concerns. The reopening ceremony which was held today at the temporary camp in Gusau also marked the swearing-in of Batch C Stream 1 corps members deployed to the state, reports Channels ...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has suspended the foreign component of its TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) Intervention due to the high cost of overseas training and incidents of scholars absconding. The suspension will take effect on January 1, 2025, according to a letter signed by TETFund’s Executive Secretary, Arc....
Comrade Abubakar J. Abdullahi, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Kaduna Polytechnic Chapter, has announced the shutdown of all polytechnics in the country by December 2 due to the federal government’s failure to meet the union’s demands. On October 6, the union issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal government, out...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, has called on university authorities across Nigeria to establish Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) on their campuses in a bid to better address cases of sexual harassment and gender-based violence. Speaking at the National Summit on Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Institutions, organis...
The Minister for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has disclosed that the ministry will send a memo to President, Bola Tinubu, mandating all government agencies and parastatals not to reject corps members assigned to them for their mandatory one-year service. The minister stated this at a press conference in Abuja today, when he was asked a...
•Senator Jimoh Ibrahim Senator representing Ondo Southern Senatorial District, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim has been invited by the University of Oxford to the 2024 Oxford Major Programme Management Conference to talk on mega projects. According to the invitation letter signed by Daniel Armanios, BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, Saïd...
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