Govt, union must adopt ownership structure to end strikes, says NECA ex-DG FUDMA joins warning strike Barely a week into the one-month warning strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal Government has taken a step towards resolving one of the pressing demands by the union. The Minister of Education, Adamu […]
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UNIBEN students protest ASUU strike Students of the University of Benin on Wednesday blocked the busy Benin/Lagos highway in solidarity with the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities who began a one-month strike on Monday. The students in their hundreds were seen at the Ugbowo campus entrance chanting solidarity songs holding placards with […]
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iStock Photos By Ben Ezeohagwu I At last let the awakening arise, Out of wave of evils as slave, then to crave as genuine human being, becoming free from the chains of darkness. II No longer ask What to gain by giving up evils and changing for better! It’s not a business deal, but ennoblement […]
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Some of the old students with Mrs. Odedairo (5th from Left) at the event By Yinka Fabowale For Mrs. Bosede Odedairo, December 11, 2021 was a fulfilling day in her career as a teacher. It was the day her old pupils at Premier Grammar School, Lafenwa area of Abeokuta gathered to honour the veteran Yoruba […]
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The Federal Government through the National Universities Commission has finalised a new curriculum for Nigerian Universities. The commission also made it known that the number of programmes has been increased from 188 to 238. NUC had last year inaugurated a committee of experts drawn from various disciplines in Nigerian Universities to create the new Core […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members in universities across the country will embark on another strike soon if the Federal Government fails to implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union last year. The Chairman of ASUU in the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Dr Biodun Olaniran, and […]
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Parents in the FCT have called on the FCT Minister, area council chairmen and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) to reach a workable agreement to enable their children resume school. Some of the affected parents, who spoke in separate interviews in Kuje, Gwagwalada, Abaji and Kwali area councils said the strike was having negative […]
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A World Bank project worth N12 million has been attracted to the Community Comprehensive High School, Ikaram Akoko in Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State by the school’s Old Students’ Association This was disclosed on Sunday in Ikaram Akoko by the President of the Association, Barr. Olurotimi Williams-Daudu at the inauguration of […]
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Kwara State government has announced the closure of Baptist School, Ijagbo, to forestall further breakdown of law and order following a free-for-all over the use of hijab by female Muslims in the school. It sued for peace among the warring parties, as the fate of students writing external examinations in the school hangs in the […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it would soon embark on an indefinite strike to press home their demands one month after it suspended a nine-month-old strike. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the University of Jos chapter of the Union, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos. The News Agency of […]
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