Educational

  A final year student of the Akwa Ibom State University, Ekpo Iniobong, has decided to sue the institution over his suspension and subsequent expulsion for allegedly criticising the state governor, Emmanuel Udom, in a Facebook post. The 500-level student ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on another strike over the refusal of the AGF to pay the salaries. ASUU threatened to begin another strike over what it called the deliberate refusal of the Accountant-General ...

  Big Brother Naija former housemate Omashola has recounted how he escaped a robbery incident in South Africa. Narrating how he was nearly robbed, Omoshola said he was about entering his car to head home when two men and tried ...

  A video which captured two students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) touching and kissing themselves in campus at night, has gone viral.   In the video, the students were so into what they were doing that they never cared ...

  Popular Nigerian actor, Bolanle Ninalowo, has taken to his official Instagram page to lament bitterly about his children’s school fees. According to the father of two, he always has a mixed feeling anytime its time for him to pay ...

  The University of Nigeria Nsuka, UNN is being criticized on social media after it was revealed that the school awards a sum of N1000 and N1500 to its best graduating students in several categories. The 49th convocation of the ...

The management of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria in Kaduna State on Thursday announced the indefinite suspension of academic activities following the attack on the institution by suspected bandits. Mallam Mahmud Kwarbai, Information and Protocol Officer of the Institution made this ...

Abductors of Dr Dan Ella, a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Art, University of Jos (UNIJOS), have demanded N10 million to secure his release. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) of the institution, ...

Lecturers under the auspices of Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) have suspended their 65-day old strike.   National Publicity Secretary of ASUP, Abdullahi Yalwa, who announced this, said the union suspended the strike following an appraisal of the report ...

The Kaduna State University (KASU) has suspended academic activities for its undergraduate students indefinitely. KASU Registrar, Samuel Manshop, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement in Kaduna. Mr Manshop, who did not give reasons for the suspension, however, said academic ...

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has declined the proposed conferment of an honorary degree on him by the Nahda International University College, NIUC, Khartoum, Sudan. The award has been slated as part of the graduation ceremony of thirty ...

The University of Lagos has dismissed two lecturers who were indicted in a s.e.x-for-grade scandal that rocked the institution in 2019. The indicted lecturers, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu and Dr Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo, were caught on camera demanding s3x from an ...

A 20-year-old Ijaw student from Rivers State, Miss Alaba Ann Tam Danagogo, is the 2021 overall best scholar at the Syracuse University in New York, the United States of America (U.S.A). Graduating with distinctions in Biology Major and Minor in ...

Nollywood actress, Dakore Egbuson-Akande has opened up on why she had to flee from the University. Many people got shocked when the news that Dakore Akande did not have a University degree and was a school dropout. In an interview ...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has announced the 25% reduction in the tuition fees of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). This was made known as the Governor visited the institution which is now under the full ...

  The Senate on Tuesday read for a third time and passed a Bill which seeks to upgrade the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, to a University of Technology. The Bill titled: “A Bill for an Act to provide for ...

The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has suspended one of its lecturers, Dr. Jonathan Mbachaga, over alleged sexual harassment. Mbachaga was, until his suspension, an Associate Professor in the institution’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts. A statement signed by the ...

Students of the Kaduna State University (KASU) on Tuesday blocked the main road leading to the Government House in Kaduna, the state capital in protest over an increase in their tuition fees. The state-owned tertiary institution recently announced an increase ...

Nollywood actress, Eucharia Anunobi has bagged a doctor of philosophy (PhD) in Christian education and ministerial acts from Kingdom Life Bible College and Seminary International. The movie star revealed the good news in a video shared via her Instagram page ...

The immediate past vice-president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has emerged as the new president of the union. Mr Osodeke, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, was ...

Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, says no fewer than 1.2 million people die annually due to exposure to tobacco smoke. Ms Moeti said this in her message to mark 2021 World No Tobacco Day ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it will no longer extend the closing date for candidates registering for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (DE) applications. The board made this known in its ...

Non-teaching workers of public universities have expressed worry about the growing rate of insecurity in tertiary institutions across the country. The workers, under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), expressed the fear that nobody, including ...

  The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) on Friday said 37 of its inmates were admitted and matriculated into the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). A statement by the Public Relations Officer of NCoS, Mr Francis Enobore on Friday in ...

  The Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil has arrested 17 students and recommended them for disciplinary action for harassing their female colleagues over their dressing. The institution said following verbal assaults on female students by a gang of ...