Educational

  The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah has slammed the Academic Staff Union University, (ASUU) over the lingering impasse between the union and the Federal Government. Opiah while expressing dismay at the 201 days old strike embarked ...

  Lagos State Ministry of Education has dismissed claims that the September 5 resumption date for the 2022/2023 academic session has been changed. Director-general of the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) Abiola Seriki-Ayeni told NAN on Friday that both ...

  The Federal Government on Tuesday said it has done much for the education sector, especially, to the universities, which should enable the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) reconsider its position on industrial strike. Minister of State for Education, ...

Kwara State Police Command has commenced investigation into the death of two undergraduates of the Kwara State University, (KWASU), Malete, who were found dead in their hostel. Tribune Online gathered that the two KWASU students; Tobiloba Daniel and his suspected ...

Governor El-Rufai’s son, Bashir El-Rufai has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU is useless and should be scrapped. Bashir suggested this in a twitter post. His statement comes shortly after the extension of the ongoing strike by ASUU. ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a total and indefinite strike. ASUU National Executive Council would meet on Sunday to take a decision over the government’s lackadaisical attitude toward the demands and plight of lecturers. Meanwhile, a meeting ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has again, rolled over its ongoing strike. The action of the nation’s public university lecturers’ union, came after its National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja. The meeting which began late ...

A Federal House of Representatives, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Hon Shina Peller was yesterday honoured by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) with an award of outstanding Leadership and also inducted as a Life Patron. Shina who was at ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Abuja branch, has challenged the Federal Government to mention any of the things done to bring to an end the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union, declaring that the strike will ...

    No fewer than 137 persons out of the 344 civil servants on the directorate cadre jostling to be appointed as principals of the nation’s 110 unity schools across the country failed the examination organised by the Federal Ministry ...

Fresh facts have emerged on why the Academic Staff Union of Universities rejected the proposal by the Federal Government. ASUU had tagged the offer by the Federal Government as “miserable”. However, the union did not go into some of the ...

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Thursday, said it is the responsibility of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to compensate students for the time wasted during the six-month strike, not the Federal Government. He also said the government ...

LAUTECH has denied asking its students to resume. The management of the school, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, said it has not issued any directive on the resumption of its students. News had gone viral yesterday ...

The management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has called off its unions’ six months old strike. The institution also announced the date for the commencement of academic activities for the 2021/2022 academic session which will be on ...

  The spokesman for the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Festus Keyamo, has said ASUU is on strike because of the 2009 agreement signed by the Peoples Democratic Party-led government. Keyamo stated this during an interview ...

  Oyo state police command in its effort towards curbing crimes across all the geo-political zones of the state has on Monday paraded a suspected kidnap kingpin who wrote a notification letters to one new generation bank and one private ...

  The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered the police and other security agencies in the state to fish out the killers of a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Happiness Odeh. Odeh, who was the school’s beauty pageant ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the parents of the Nigerian students should beg the federal government to fulfil the promises it had with the Union so as to put an end to the ongoing ...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the reintroduction of History as “a stand-alone subject” into the basic and junior secondary schools in the state. According to a memo addressed to private school owners and signed by the Director of Research ...

  Will Smith and wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, were spotted together in public for the first time since the infamous Oscars slap, which occurred in March. The couple enjoyed an afternoon date at Nobu Malibu on Saturday as they were photographed ...

  An Abuja-based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has appealed to chief executive officers of banks and billionaire businessmen including Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga to pay off the N1.1 trillion demands by the Academic Staff Union ...

  The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has said the government’s insistence that it does not have money to fund Nigerian universities is disheartening. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, had in an interview, ...

  The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. Speaking on Monday at WAEC office, Yaba, the Head of Nigeria Office, WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, said, “The ...

  The Federal High Court Abuja has fixed September 7, for the hearing of a legal suit seeking the disqualification of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting the 2023 elections for allegedly presenting ...

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has called on Nigerian parents and guardians whose children are affected by the ongoing shutdown of academic activities in government-owned universities to appeal to the Academic Staff Union of ...