•Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has again condemned the dissolution of governing councils of federal universities by the Federal Government, describing the action as illegal. Recall that President Bola Tinubu since June 2023 dissolved the governing councils of all the federal universities in the country, reports Nigeri...
The other day, I was engaged in a controversial conversation with a close friend on a topic that centered on the licensing of more universities. My friend’s position was that the existing 274 universities in Nigeria are more than enough. He informed me that this has been the position of the Academic Staff Union of […]
Mohammed Ibrahim, the President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has threatened that the union alongside the Non-academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU) will shut down the universities in the country if the government refuses to grant their demands in the next seven days. He disclos...
•Education minister, Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has set up a committee to investigate the activities of private universities established in the last 15 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman who spoke during the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee on degree mills in the country, today, said this would s...
•NUC headquarters, Abuja The National Universities Commission (NUC) has identified at least fifty-eight (58) illegal universities operating in Nigeria. The names include those who claim to be affiliates of foreign universities in the country. Also, nine degree mills are currently undergoing further investigations and/or court actions. The deve...
•Education Minister, Tahir The federal government has suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from the Republic of Benin and Togo, respectively. The Federal Ministry of Education made the announcement today, reports Vanguard. The Ministry noted that its decision followed an undercover investigation conducted by a Nige...
•FEC meeting Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have been taken off from the Integrated Personnel Payment System (IPPIS). The approval for the exemption was given by The Federal Executive Council at its meeting today at the Presidential Villa Abuja. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this while br...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean. Our stone-broke universities are the stones. The presidency is the ocean to which Tinubu wants […]
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