•Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho A Warri-based child rights advocate, Comrade Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho, has opposed an announcement by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, abolishing the 18-year minimum age requirement for admission to tertiary institutions in Nigeria. In a signed statement released to journalists in Warri today, Aghogho expressed ...
•Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa The newly sworn-in Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has abolished the 18-year admission benchmark for tertiary institutions in the country. He also hinted at the possibility of reviewing the nation’s education policy, reports The PUNCH. However, the minister stated that there would be no reversa...
The Management of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, has dismissed allegations of financial impropriety leveled against the new Governing Council by an online media platform. In a statement made available to The Frontier yesterday, the Principal Assistant Registrar (Information, Communication, and Public Relations), Mike Ade Aladenika, des...
•Some of the pupils in their classroom at the school Parents have expressed concern over overcrowded classrooms at the Junior Secondary School (JSS), Unguwar Dodo, Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT. Some parents, who spoke when our reporter visited the school yesterday, also decried the lack of enough desks for students in the school, reports...
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) have announced suspension of the ongoing nationwide indefinite strike over withheld salaries for a month. The unions in a joint statement yesterday said the suspension of the indefinite strike will ta...
•Tinubu The federal government has released funds for payment of withheld salaries of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Federal Universities (NASU). The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) made this known in a statement in Abuja. According to the OAGF, the FG has also released funds for the payment of benefits to […]...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, in collaboration with the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, is poised to integrate financial literacy into the school curriculum for junior and primary schools across the country. The Acting Head of the Consumer Protection Department at the CBN, Mr Ibrahim Yahaya, disclosed this today during th...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has passed a bill targeted at adÂdressing instances of sexual harassment in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. The bill, titled, ‘An Act to PreÂvent, Prohibit and Redress Sexual Harassment of Students in TerÂtiary Educational Institutions and for Related Matters,’ imposes stringen...
The National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, has threatened to embark on mass protests to disrupt academic activities in tertiary institutions in the southwest without a proper student union in place. Addressing newsmen in Osogbo today, the Coordinator, NANS Southwest (Zone D), Owolewa Taiwo, disclosed that banning student union activit...
Striking non-teaching staff of the Federal public universities, yesterday, dismissed a report that the federal government has invited them for a meeting over the ongoing indefinite nationwide strike, saying the government has not reached out to them, reports Vanguard. This came as members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Asso...
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