•ASUU President, Prof Osodeke President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has raised an alarm, saying most Nigerian universities are on the verge of shutting down over unbearable cost of administration. He criticised the federal government which repeatedly questioned the deployment of Internally Ge...
Varsity Cup, Nigeria’s first annual national university football championships for men’s and women’s teams has announced the universities that will participate in its inaugural Varsity Men’s Football 2024 season. Having undergone a rigorous selection phase and completed a month-long accreditation process, these universities ably led by their S...
The House of Representatives has committed to addressing the challenges that are preventing Nigerian tertiary institutions from accessing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) allocations available to them, reports Daily Trust. During a recent visit to Kaduna State, the House Committee on TETFund and Other Services disclosed that over N5...
Tertiary institutions in Nigeria are an important component of the nation’s educational system, offering advanced learning opportunities beyond secondary schooling. Over the years, the argument around whose school or even alma mater was the best usually dominates the trends. Everyone’s university is the best, inasmuch as it fulfils the essence...
•Meter The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, has decried the high charge of electricity bill in universities, saying some were charged between N300 and N400 million bill in one month. He wondered how the institutions can cope if there is no urgent intervention, reports Daily Trust Echono who st...
•Education minister, Prof Tahir Mamman The federal government has denied reports that it is selling off public universities to private investors. The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, said there has been misinformation on one aspect of the ministry’s policy in respect to tertiary education, reports Daily Trust. The minister who stated ...
•FEC meeting The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has directed that the university system be removed with immediate effect from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform. Recall that the federal government had previously approved the initiative. The new directive was part of the resolutions reached at the council ...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has strongly criticised both federal and state governments for what it perceives as the politicisation of education, particularly through the proliferation of public universities while neglecting the funding needs of existing ones. Dr Melemi Abatcha, chairperson of ASUU at the Federal University ...
•Education minister, Tahir Mamman The comment by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, that the entry age to universities and other higher institutions should be 18 years has generated mixed reactions from stakeholders in the education sector. While some parents are of the view that the 16 years entry age allowed by most higher [&hell...
•Education Minister Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, gave the directive today during a monitoring exercise of the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Bw...
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