Afe Babalola warns: Dearth of quality teachers endangers education

Seeks proper funding for teacher training colleges Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has warned that the dearth of quality teachers in the country posed a great danger to functional education. Babalola, who cited the anomalies noticed in Kaduna, Kwara and Sokoto states where teachers failed examinations meant for their […]

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FG reverses varsities’ reopening order, ASUU adamant

The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, on Monday, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. A circular, tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135, was earlier addressed to all vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors, and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities, ordering them to re-open universities. However, in another circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/136, which […]

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ASUU: FG makes U-turn, withdraws order to reopen varsities

The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, Monday afternoon, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. It had had been reported earlier that a circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135 was addressed to all vice-chancellors; pro-chancellors and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities ordering them to re-open universities. But […]

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Resumption order: Strike is total, comprehensive — ASUU spits fire

Says members will not be in classes but… The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday, said the Federal Government owned her Universities and can decide when to close and open the institutions. ASUU Chairman, University of Ibadan, Prof Ayoola Akinwole, who stated this in Ibadan, said that the Union never shut down the […]

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ASUU resumption: VCs succumb to FG, open attendance register for varsity lecturers

To advertise positions of lecturers who fail to resume after one week Govt plans to source for lecturers from private varieties, engage vibrant qualified retired civil servants, others The federal government may further direct university management to open an attendance register for lecturers of all public universities in the country upon resumption of universities as […]

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OYOSUBEB warns job seekers to beware of scammers, says no recruitment yet

Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, (OYOSUBEB) on Friday warned the public against an online advertisement suggesting that it has commenced recruitment exercises for the year 2022. A statement by Olamide Adeniji, the Head, Media Team, said that the board’s Executive Chairman, Dr. Nureni Adeniran, described the advertisement as a scam. It said the chairman […]

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Inculcate capacity building in-house seminars into secondary schools’ calendar, Education scholar, Adebayo tells FG, state governments

By Banji Ayoola A Professor of Educational Communication, Prof Kayode Adebayo, has asked the Federal and State Governments, through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, to inculcate capacity building in-house seminars into the school calendar, advising that the suggested seminars should not be less than three per academic term. He believes strongly that if […]

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I made first class despite being SUG leader – LAUTECH graduate

Twenty-four-year-old Olamide Olabiyi, who graduated with first class in Pure and Applied Physics from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, tells Opeyemi Adefemi about his academic journey: How many times did you take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination before securing admission? I took UTME twice, first in 2014 with the intention to study Medicine […]

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ASUU Strike: Between court ruling and search for amicable resolution

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its seven months strike and return to the classroom, but the lecturers swiftly rejected the ruling and are planning to file an appeal, dashing the hope that the university students will soon return to the campuses to […]

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