Kwara State Poly Shut Down as Students Protest Relocation of NYSC Orientation Camp

AfricaEducationNewsNigeriaPoliticsKwara State Poly Shut Down as Students Protest Relocation of NYSC Orientation Camp

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 21, 2026

PDP Says Presidential Ticket Open to Jonathan, Other Southern Aspirants, Ilorin, has been shut down following a protest by students over the relocation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp to the institution. During the protest, the police tear-gassed students who blocked the main gate to stop newly deployed corps members from accessing the campus. Police also use tear gas canisters within the premises, including hostels, affecting both students and staff. The corps members...

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Emir Sanusi II Returns to School As a 200-Level Law Student

EducationNewsNigeriaPoliticsEmir Sanusi II Returns to School As a 200-Level Law Student

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 21, 2026

The 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, on Tuesday officially resumed lectures at Northwest University, Kano, where he is studying Law as a 200-level undergraduate. The revered monarch was sighted joining other students for lectures, dressed in a black long gown and a white head tie. The Emir is enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) programme, studying Common Law and Sharia, at the university’s Faculty of Law. Images from the lecture hall have...

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LASUSTECH to Launch Bola Ahmed Tinubu Institute of Politics and Policies

EducationNewsNigeriaLASUSTECH to Launch Bola Ahmed Tinubu Institute of Politics and Policies

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 17, 2026

The BAT Ideological Group and the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Ikorodu, have formally entered into a strategic partnership to establish the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Institute of Politics and Policies. The agreement was sealed during a high-level strategic engagement held on Thursday, 15 January 2026 between leaders of the ideological group and the university’s management. The institute is designed to promote ideological orientation, strengthen political leadership development, and enhance governance studies across...

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Lecturers’ Salaries Up 40% Under New FG–ASUU Agreement

EducationNewsNigeriaLecturers’ Salaries Up 40% Under New FG–ASUU Agreement

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 14, 2026

The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have formally signed a long-awaited, renegotiated agreement that ends a 16-year stalemate over the terms of academic service conditions in federal universities. The agreement, reached on 23 December 2025 and signed in Abuja on Wednesday, takes effect from 1 January 2026 and will be reviewed after three years. It follows protracted negotiations that began in 2017 to revisit the 2009 Federal Government–ASUU...

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Consultant In Osun Declares Vice Chancellor, Deans, Professors As Ghost Workers 

EducationNewsNigeriaPoliticsConsultant In Osun Declares Vice Chancellor, Deans, Professors As Ghost Workers 

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 10, 2026

Sally Tibbot Limited had alleged that the Osun state government is harbouring and covering 8,452 ghost workers in its employment.  The consultant disclosed this during a press conference on Friday. The workers across various agencies decried the defamation and character assassination allegedly perpetrated by the consultant, who declared them to be ghost workers, vowing to seek redress in the court of law. Reacting to the allegation, the Osun State Government stated that public servants who...

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‘Abeg’, ‘Amala’, Afrobeats Enter Oxford English Dictionary

EducationNewsNigeria‘Abeg’, ‘Amala’, Afrobeats Enter Oxford English Dictionary

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 8, 2026

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its collection with new African words and expressions in its latest update published in December 2025 and rolled into 2026. The update was announced by the OED on Wednesday via X and includes commonly used Nigerian and West African words linked to food, music, markets, everyday speech and pop culture. According to the Dictionary, the December 2025 update added more than 500 new words, phrases, and senses, and...

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Nigerian Law School Gets First Woman Director-General under Tinubu

EducationNewsNigeriaNigerian Law School Gets First Woman Director-General under Tinubu

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 6, 2026

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr Olugbemisola Titilayo Odusote as the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, making her the first woman to head the institution since its establishment in 1962. The appointment was announced in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday. The appointment, which takes effect from 10 January 2026, is for a four-year term. Dr Odusote, 54,...

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Governor Bago Approves Phased Reopening of Schools Across Niger State

EducationNewsNigeriaGovernor Bago Approves Phased Reopening of Schools Across Niger State

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 3, 2026

Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago has directed the phased reopening of public and private schools across the state from Monday, 12 January 2026, following comprehensive security assessments and extensive consultations with relevant security agencies. In a press statement issued jointly by the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and the Governor’s Office in Minna, the state capital, the government said the decision strikes a balance between safeguarding lives and restoring uninterrupted access to education...

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Kebbi Govt Lifts School Closure Imposed After Maga School Attack

EducationNewsNigeriaKebbi Govt Lifts School Closure Imposed After Maga School Attack

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 2, 2026

The Kebbi State Government has officially directed the reopening of all primary and secondary schools across the state for the second term of the 2025/2026 academic session, bringing an end to the prolonged closure prompted by a deadly school attack in November 2025. The resumption directive, which takes effect on Monday, January 5, 2026, was contained in separate statements signed by Isah Ibrahim, Public Relations Officer of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), and...

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General Murtala Mohammed College, Yola Graduates 987 Forest Guards

EducationNewsNigeriaGeneral Murtala Mohammed College, Yola Graduates 987 Forest Guards

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)December 28, 2025

The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, states that the establishment of the forest guard initiative represents the convergence of environmental aspirations with national security imperatives. Ribadu, stated this at the graduation of 987 trained forest guards, held at General Murtala Mohammed College (GMMC), Yola The NSA, represented by Col E E Eswagu, reaffirmed his office’s unwavering determination to make the initiative succeed, stressed that “by protecting forests, we are reclaiming our territory. By reclaiming...

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