•UNICAL main gate The Senate of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has approved the promotion of 23 academic staff, including Okon Patrick Ene of the Department of Mass Communication, to the rank of Professor. Vice Chancellor, Offiong Efanga Offiong, announced the promotions during an emergency Senate meeting held on Monday, March 30, 2026, at...
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, today, appointed four professors under its Professorial Endowment Chair initiative to prevent the extinction of the Igbo language. The appointed scholars include Prof. Mercy Nnyigide from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Prof. Boniface Mbah of University of Nigeria Nsukka, Prof. Ngozi Emeka-Nwobi of Ebonyi State ...
•Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, FG delegation and ASUU executives After 16 years of negotiations, industrial crises that rocked the country’s university system, the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have formally signed a new agreement. The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Un...
Some Nigerian professors have demanded that their salaries be raised to a minimum of N2.5 million per month, insisting that anything less was no longer tenable. On Tuesday, protests rocked several campuses as members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities decried the Federal Government’s failure to implement the renegotiated 2009 FGN–ASUU...
•Protesting varsity lecturers The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ilorin Branch, has raised fresh alarm over the worsening plight of academics, lamenting that professors now struggle for public buses with their students due to the erosion of their earnings. They spoke during a press conference yesterday after a peace...
•Prof Attahiru Jega A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has defended the inclusion of academics in the conduct of Nigeria’s election. According to him, professors have constantly rejected bribes offered to them by politicians and brought unmatched integrity into the nation’s electoral proce...
At least, 40 professors are jostling for the Vice Chancellor’s office at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN. Among the contenders are Professor Malachy Okwueze, who was former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University and former Deputy Chief of Staff to a former governor of Enugu State. Others include two current Deputy Vice Chancellors of ...
The University of Abuja professors are right now protesting the process of selecting the vice-chancellor of the school. Channels Television’s crew covering the protest was manhandled and the crew bus vandalized by security operatives in the school, after detaining them for over an hour. The university has been embroiled in a deep crisis over t...
•Prof Ishaya The Vice Chancellor of University of Jos Professor Tanko Ishaya, has announced that between 2021 to date, 97 academic Staff have been promoted to become Professors at the University. “97 academic staff of the institution were promoted to the rank of professorship till date,” Ishaya stressed. The Vice Chancellor stated his while ma...
•Nigerian professors detained in Cameroon The prolonged detention of several Nigerian professors by the Cameroon government for the past five years has sparked outrage. The professors were arrested in Abuja on January 5, 2018, by security agents and later repatriated to Cameroon, tried by a military tribunal, and sentenced to life imprisonment...
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