THE National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked its various branches to conduct a referendum to give backing to the proposed strike. Report gathered that the national body of the union also ordered the branches to stage protests starting from inside the institutions carrying placards to the front […]
REASON and logic prevailed at last, penultimate week, when the federal government admitted the fact of the systemic dysfunction and proliferation of tertiary institutions in the country. As a result, it imposed a seven-year moratorium on the establishment of new universities, polytechnics and colleges of education at the federal level, so that the inadequacies in […]
By STEPHEN ADELEYE THE Senator Sunday Steve Karimi Education Foundation says it has received over 10,000 applications for their ₦300 million Bursary Award 2025. Mr. Tosin Busuyi, the foundation’s Central Committee Secretary, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Lokoja. He said the programme was designed to support Kogi students studying in public […]
DELTA Government says it has successfully re-enrolled no fewer than 2,000 out-of-school children in the last one year through targeted outreach and support packages. According to the state government, it has also recorded significant progress in improving the education sector. The Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (D-SUBEB), Mr. Samuel Marie re, […]
By ALEXANDER OKERE THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has faulted the approval of licences for new private universities by the Federal Government. The union, while recalling the recent seven-year moratorium announced by the government, questioned the rationale behind the new licences if access to university education in the country was not a problem. […]
By DABANG PANKYES THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned of a possible nationwide strike, accusing the Federal Government of failing to honour longstanding agreements on the revitalisation and proper funding of Nigeria’s public universities. Speaking during a press conference at the University of Jos on Thursday, ASUU President, Christopher Piwuna, said lecturers […]
By EMMANUEL AFONNE A Professor of Linguistics at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Christine Ofulue, says Nigerian Pidgin is becoming a global lingua franca due to its exceptional scale and wider reach. Ofulue said this in Abuja while delivering the university’s 35th inaugural lecture with the theme: “Reclaiming Marginalised Voices: Intersections of Diversity […]
ACADEMIC activities in Nigeria’s universities may soon be disrupted as ASUU braces up for countrywide protests across its branches. It was reliably gathered that this is a prelude to a nationwide strike which would halt the over two-year uninterrupted academic activities. A member of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) National Executive Committee (NEC) […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected a plan to compel the union as a ‘guarantor’ of loans, under the Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund scheme, recently introduced by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The union’s position was contained in its resolution, signed by the ASUU President, Christopher Piwuna, following a National Executive […]
THE National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, has announced plans for a three-day nationwide peaceful protest following recent road accidents involving trucks belonging to a cement company, which led to deaths and injuries in Auchi, Edo State. In a statement by its Action Committee Public Relations Officer, Usman Dende, NAPS said the protest commenced yesterday […]