Canada has adjusted its regulations to allow eligible Nigerians and other international students to work up to 24 hours per week off-campus during academic terms, an increase from the previous limit of 20 hours. Marc Miller, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, explained that the decision strikes a balance between enabling s...
•Bayelsa school flood The Bayelsa State Government through the Ministry of Education has extended the 2024 flood break resumption date by one week. This is to allow flood water that took over most schools in the state recede, reports Daily Trust. The state government had earlier scheduled the schools to resume from flood break on […]
The Governing Council of the Federal University, Lokoja, has approved the dismissal of four lecturers on account of examination misconduct and sexual misconduct. Our correspondent gathered that the governing council gave the approval at its Second Council Meeting yesterday, reports The PUNCH. This is coming on the heels of the investigation fo...
Islamic scholars and other stakeholders have converged on Maiduguri, Borno State capital, to upscale a strategy that will give ‘Almajiri’ a chance for a better life. The 2-day summit titled: Almajiri Education Reform Summit, aims to provide the stakeholders with a platform to discuss innovative strategies to integrate Tsangaya into the mainstr...
•Prof Niyi Akingbe The National Industrial Court in Akure has ordered the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), to pay N40 million to Professor Niyi Akingbe, the former Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts, for wrongful dismissal. The court found that Akingbe’s termination in 2018 was unjust and based on unfounded allegations of plagiarism, rep...
The Commonwealth Institute for Advanced and Professional Studies (CIAPS) will host an international one-day workshop on class action law. According to the organisers in a statement issued today and made available to The Frontier, the workshop is the first of its kind in Africa. “The programme is designed for individuals and entities that...
•Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa The federal government has suspended 13 students of Federal Government College, Enugu, following the recent bullying incident in the school. Recall that a trending video on social media captured a gang assault of an SS1 student (a day student) by a group of students on November 7, 2024. Reacting [&helli...
•ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities yesterday raised an alarm over a plot to sabotage the interest of public universities in the country. ASUU’s National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, at an event marking the 2024 ASUU’s Heroes Day in Abuja, also accused the World Bank and the International Moneta...
•Late Ayeyemi Sulaiman The management of Kwara State University has said that one Ayeyemi Sulaiman who was allegedly killed by the police in the Tanke area of Ilorin, the state capital, last week Tuesday was an ex-student. KWASU, in a statement signed by the acting Director, University Relations, Dr Saeedat Aliyu, today said that Sulaiman [&he...
University of Ilorin in Kwara State has announced the registration and release of its first drought-tolerant and striga-resistant hybrid, ILOMAZ 3 maize. In a statement culled from the university’s weekly bulletin today, it was stated that the hybrid maize is considered revolutionary. The statement said that the proposal for the registration a...
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