Category: Education

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife As NANS urges FG to waive semester registration, hostel fees over lost time After eight months of face-off with the Federal Government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off its protracted strike on October 14 at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja. ASUU, however, maintained […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday allayed fears of candidates whose admission fate had been kept in the balance because of the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. It said despite the strikes that had affected the academic calendar from 2020 till date, no offer of admission made by […]

The Senate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has approved a revised academic calendar for the continuation of the 2020/2021 Academic Session. This is contained in a statement by Mr Richard Arifalo, the FUTA’s Registrar, on Thursday in Akure. The statement said that lectures leading to the completion of the First Semester would […]

Nigerian university students are expected back in class after the suspension of an eight-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The suspended ASUU strike started on Monday, February 14. Since suspension of the strike on Friday, October 14, a number of universities have released internal memos and circulars announcing their resumption date. […]

The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti has announced immediate resumption of academic activities for fresh and returning students for the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 sessions. The Special Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor on Media Matters, Wole Balogun, said that the university senate had also approved that two academic sessions – second semester of 2020/2021 academic session and first semester […]

The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has explained how the Federal Government can avoid future industrial disputes in the university system. It advised the government to address the fundamental trust issues between it and all unions operating in universities. Secretary-General, CVCNU, Prof Yakubu Ochefu stated this during a briefing in Abuja to […]

University of Lagos, UNILAG By Banji Ayoola At last, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old strike, ending the distress into which university students, many of whom had been suffering untold socio-economic hardship and indignities, had been thrown since they were compulsorily sent home in February. The union suspended the strike […]