An undergraduate of the Ogun State-owned University of Education, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, Abdul-Azeez Ibrahim, has been arrested by the State police command for alleged kidnapping, armed robbery, and cultism. Abdul-Azeez, arrested on Saturday in Ijebu Ode, is said to be the hit man and armourer for...
•Gunmen The Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Abia State University, Uturu, Professor Godwin Emezue, was yesterday abducted by hoodlums in Umuekwu Amachara, Umuahia South Local Government Area of the state. Disclosing this in a statement, the Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Police Command, ASP Maureen Chinaka, said the DVC was in compan...
•Mazi Eze A lecturer at the Department of English, University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Mazi Eze, has shared his frustration after being denied a N5 million loan due to his monthly salary of N191,000. Narrating his experience in a post on his Facebook page yesterday, Eze recalled his visit to First Bank, Choba, where he […]
The academic and non-academic staff unions of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, have began strike due to 11 months of unpaid salary. It was gathered that the workers through their various union leaders, had given the school’s management December 31 as deadline to settle the unpaid salaries, reports The Guardian. Following the industrial act...
•Protesting students Academic activities were grounded today at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, following students’ protests against a hike in the institution’s tuition fees. The students, who converged at the two gates leading to the school as early as 7 a.m., blocked the main gates of the school and barricaded the ever-busy Akur...
•OAUSTECH Trade unions at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, have notified the state governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, of an imminent strike over unpaid minimum wages, wage awards and delay in the institution’s subvention. Mr Temidayo Temola, Chairman of Joint Action Congress (JAC) of the unions, di...
•CP Shehu Nadada Students, staff and residents within the neighbourhood of Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) are living in fear, following a threat letter from bandits. Recall that prior to the abduction of eight students in November, last year, a similar letter was sent to Gandu community, a nearby settlement harbouring over 40 per cent [...
Some academic and non-academic staff members of the Kaduna State University have decried the non-payment of their salaries. The workers said they had yet to receive any salary since they were employed three years ago as they were excluded from the state’s payroll, reports Saturday PUNCH. According to them, this was mainly because of the [&hell...
•Adibe and Yakubu Professor Jideofor Adibe says the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu should have resigned in the wake of the 2023 elections. Nigerians went to the polls earlier in the year to elect their president, governors, and national and state lawmakers. But the exercise, especially ...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has lamented the non-payment of arrears of the national minimum wage to its members. It also urged the federal government to pay the October and November backlog of the N35,000 wage award to workers in its payroll, reports The Nation. The union said fourteen universities have failed...
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