The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its strike by another four weeks to give the Federal Government more time to meet its demands. The union took the decision at the end of its National Executive Council meeting at its national secretariat in Abuja on Sunday. Quoting a statement by its President, Prof […]
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Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has faulted claims that she was related to a 40-year-old lady, Nkiru Okoye, who was murdered in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The deceased, a wife of a mechanical engineer, Emenike Okoye, was reportedly beaten to death by her brother-in-law, George Okoye, over the ownership of some disputed […]
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila No fewer than 63 bills have been tabled before the Senate and the House of Representatives for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education since the beginning of shutdown of activities in public tertiary institutions in the country in 2022, investigation has […]
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Oyo State Government has conducted the 2022 Competitive Entrance Examination for 4,545 candidates seeking admission into the Seven Science Schools and Igbo Elerin Grammar School in the State. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun, said that his counterpart for Education, Science and Technology, Barr. Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem, who […]
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JAMB students The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), during its policy meeting held on July 21, pegged the minimum cut-off score for admission into the country’s universities at 140 for the 2022/2023 academic session. It put that of Polytechnics at 120, and Colleges of Education at 100. Two years back, it had approved 160 […]
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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde Oyo State Government has reinstated 129 public primary school teachers, unlawfully sacked by the previous administration. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Aderemi Adeniran stated this on Wednesday, while congratulating the teachers, according to a statement by the board’s Media Team Head, Olamide Adeniji. Adeniran […]
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Ogun State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has promised to join the national leadership of the Union in shutting down the country, if the federal government failed to resolve all issues surrounding the on-going strike actions embarked on by various unions in the nation’s public universities. Members of the NLC in the state […]
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The Senate on Tuesday passed the National Senior Secondary Education Commission Bill, 2022. The bill’s passage was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary). Senator Akon Eyakenyi (PDP – Akwa-Ibom South), in a presentation on behalf of the Committee’s Chairman, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam (APC – Yobe East), […]
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Nigerians spent $378.77 million on foreign education between January and May 2022, The PUNCH reports. The figure is contained in data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria, calculated based on the data provided on the amount spent on educational service under the sectoral utilisation for transactions valid for foreign exchange. In January 2022, the […]
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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Saturday 6th August 2022, for its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates who could not participate in the examinations during the period of the exercise for some verified reasons. Information contained in JAMB weekly bulletin indicated that the decision was a result of JAMB’s determination […]
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