•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...
•Federal Secretariat, Abuja Some federal civil servants at the weekend were gripped with fear over the security of their jobs following claims that the government has started weeding out those who obtained their degree certificates from unrecognised universities in Benin Republic and Togo. The situation was heightened by a post on the verified...
Bauchi State-owned Sa’adu Zungur University (SAZU) has raised an alarm over a fake admission letter that is trending, saying that the admission is completely fake and has no basis in reality. This was contained a press statement issued by Auwal Hassan, Public Relations Officer, Sa’adu Zungur University (SAZU) and made made available to journal...
•Embattled Prof. Benard Odoh The Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State has disowned the sacked Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikwe University (UNIZIK) Awka, Anambra State, Bernard Ifeanyi Odoh, saying that he has never worked as a professor in the University. Addressing the newsmen yesterday evening in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, th...
The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the reappointment of Professor Joseph Ikechebelu as the new acting vice-chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (NAU). Ikechebelu’s reappointment as the new vice-chancellor of the university was announced in a letter on Wednesday by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Nasir ...
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