•UNN main gate The Management of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State has suspended Mfonobong Udoudom, a lecturer in the General Studies Department of the school, who was caught in a video allegedly harassing a female student. The university’s spokesperson Okwunka Omeaku, in a statement yesterday, said that the institution has...
One person has been feared killed in a fight that broke out among students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) at a nightclub in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, last night. The development was owing to a misunderstanding which led to a fight between two groups of students at a popular joint in the town, […]
•UNIBEN main gate The Academic Staff Union of Universities, the University of Benin branch, said today that its members may not resume academic activities on April 28 due to attacks on lecturers and management staff by students of the institution. The ASUU leadership also noted that it is a constraint to embark on teaching and […]
•Gunmen Gunmen have killed a professor of law at Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun, Yinka Olomojobi, and abducted two others in the Iperu area of the state. Olomojobi was shot dead on Friday for allegedly refusing to be taken away by the suspected gunmen, reports Channels TV. While he was shot dead, two residents were kidnapped […]
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), yesterday, rejected the federal government’s plan to pay its members half salary for the four months withheld salaries. Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, on Wednesday, revealed that SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) would get half of their withheld salaries if President ...
Residents of Iru Egbede community in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State are grieving over the disappearance of a 19-year-old 200-level student of Delta State University, Faith Omodon. Omodon, a student of Business Administration , was last seen on March 30, after leaving home for her father’s farm, reports The PUNCH. The girl’s fath...
•Fulani herdsmen Two students of the Federal University Wukari, Taraba state were last night abducted in Wukari by suspected Fulani herdsmen. The institution’s Chief Security Officer, Sule Gani, confirmed the incident today, reports The Nation. He said the victims graduated but stayed behind to remedy some of their courses. According to him, t...
University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has expelled five students for alleged examination malpractices and hostel racketeering. The institution also rusticated 14 others for alleged misconduct, reports The Nation. In a statement, UNILORIN Director of Corporate Affairs, Kunle Akogun, said the approval for the expulsion/rustication of the affected stud...
A lecturer with the University of Maiduguri, Department of Physical and Health Education Abdulkadir Kamar has been found dead in his office at the university. The University’s Director, of Radio and Public Relations, Danjuma Gambo, confirmed the unfortunate incident in a late press release yesterday. Gambo noted that the police and other secur...
•Gunmen The Police Command in Cross River, today, confirmed the abduction of three students of the University of Calabar (Unical). The spokesperson of the command, SP Irene Ugbo, who gave the confirmation, said the students were abducted on Thursday night at one of the university hostels inside the campus, reports Sunday Vanguard. Ugbo, who di...