Category: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has filed an appeal challenging the ruling of Justice Polycarp Hamman of the National Industrial Court Abuja which ordered the lecturers to call off their seven-month-old strike and return to the classrooms. Counsel to ASUU, Femi Falana, SAN based their appeal on 14 grounds. The appeal was also accompanied […]