•Nigerian lawyers The Council of Legal Education has released the list of 114 universities approved to run law programmes in Nigeria. In a circular issued today, the council said only the listed universities are authorised to admit students into the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) programme in the country. The circular, signed by the council’s Secreta...
In Nigeria, there’s a disturbingly haunting temporariness in the appellative identity of every university that derives its name from its location. If the current trend holds, they will sooner or later be renamed after a dead or living politician. The University of Ibadan; the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; the University of Lagos; the Universi...
•Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved two major electrification projects worth a combined ₦213.7 billion to improve energy access in universities, teaching hospitals, and rural communities across Nigeria. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, announced the approvals while briefing journalists at...
•Prof Kayode Adebowale The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Kayode Adebowale, has expressed concerns about the increasing prevalence of mental health issues, particularly among students in Nigerian universities. He stated that this served as a reminder that university health services needed to gradually incorporate more s...
•Graduation ceremony at Columbia University in New York Hong Kong has said it will open its universities to more international students, highlighting those affected by the US government’s move this week to block Harvard from enrolling foreign nationals. The sharp escalation in US President Donald Trump’s longstanding feud with the prestigious ...
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has called on the federal government to grant full autonomy in academic, administrative and financial matters to the university. The university expressed concern over the mis-classification of universities under Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), while demanding an “urgent correction,” reports Daily T...
•ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has cautioned the federal government against replacing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), warning that such a move would cripple public universities and undermine tertiary education in Nigeria. A...
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...
•Prof John Laah Nigeria needs 800 universities to meet the academic requirements of its growing population, a university don and member, Southern Kaduna Professors’ Forum, Professor John Laah, has said. Laah, a professor of Geography from the Kaduna State University (KASU), said this while speaking with journalists, today. He said the establis...
Universities across the country, especially those owned by the federal government, were today shut down by non-academic staff under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and the Non-academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions, NASU. The step followed the decision of the national leaders of th...
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