The Beninois and Togolese universities which were temporarily derecognised last week by the Federal Government, are at risk of losing about N7.5billion which they make annually from their Nigerian students, according to projections. The Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates f...
Following an exposé by undercover journalist, Umar Audu, revealing his detailed acquisition of a degree from a university in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and subsequent undetected deployment to Cross Rivers State for the NYSC programme, there has been a strong reaction among Nigerians. The report, which has since gained prominence, led the federal...
•Prof Bello Malami A university lecturer from Usmanu Danfodio University Sokoto, Professor Bello Malami, has asked President Tinubu to redouble efforts in the fight against corruption in Nigeria which he described as the base for progress, development and solutions to prevailing insecurity in the country. While expressing optimism that the eco...
•Doctors The federal government has directed universities to begin to admit more students into Medicine and Surgery as a strategy to address the shortage of manpower in the health sector occasioned by the relentless exodus of health workers abroad in what has been termed japa. The Vice Chancellor, Nile University, Prof. Dili Dogo, revealed the...
•Ishaq Oloyede The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned some tertiary institutions against the practice where students are graduated and issued certificates without due matriculation. JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who raised concerns about the development, revealed that some of the affected institutions have fa...
•Unilag The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities have described the plan by the federal government to automatically deduct 40 per cent from the Internally Generated Revenue of universities in the country as an attack on the university system. The FG, in a letter dated October 17, [...
•AGF Oluwatoyin Madein The federal government has commenced the implementation of an automatic 40 per cent deduction of Internally Generated Revenues of Federal Universities and other partially funded institutions across the country. The auto-deduction policy of gross IGR is in line with the Finance Circular with reference number FMFBNP/OTHERS...
•NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed No fewer than 24 polytechnics and colleges of education have been converted to universities by the federal and state governments. However, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and education reform activists tagged the move as a plan to “bury” the essence of technical education in the country,...
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