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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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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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 […]
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Dr Jacob Olubanji Akindele with the Chancellor and Founder of the University, Prof Ben Ezeohagwu By Banji Ayoola The stars shone brightly and twinkled repeatedly two weeks ago as celebrated writer and an editorial board member of the flagship of the Nigerian media, The Guardian, Prince Jacob Olubanji Akindele, was conferred with PhD Honoris Causa […]
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The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has faulted the court judgement which mandated the Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU, to call of its seven month strike. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday ordered the ASUU to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press […]
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The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its ongoing strike. ASUU has been on a seven-month strike since Monday, February 14. The union is demanding the federal government of reneging on previous agreements on matters such as increased funding for universities and increasing […]
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First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has come under criticism after she shared the graduation photographs of her daughter-in-law across her social media pages on Tuesday. Zahra Bayero-Buhari, who got married to President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, in August 2021, graduated from a UK university on Tuesday. Aisha’s critics berated her for being insensitive to the plights […]
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Some civil society groups, on Tuesday, described as “insensitive” a post made by the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on her Facebook page celebrating her daughter-in-law’s graduation from a United Kingdom university. They also asked her to apologise to millions of Nigerian students stuck at home as the seven-month strike by the Academic Staff […]
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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has warned that the quality of teaching in the nation’s universities will be negatively affected if the National Industrial Court (NIC) forces the union to return to work. He stated this on Tuesday during a meeting between the union, the leadership of […]
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Students of public universities in Nigeria have said all is set to ground activities at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at the nation’s federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja. The latest decision followed the success recorded in Lagos on Monday when human and vehicular movement into and from the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) was obstructed […]
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