The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if the Kaduna State government fails to reverse the decision to sack 2,357 teachers, including its national president, Audu Amba. The National Executive Council (NEC) of the union made its position known on Wednesday during its meeting at the Teachers House, Lugbe, Abuja. The union restated its commitment to stand by the president and other sacked teachers in the state. Kelvin...

Anambra State House of Assembly during its plenary on Tuesday has summoned the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma Udeh, to appear before the House in the next adjourned sitting day, to explain the controversies surrounding the ongoing teachers’ recruitment exercise. In a motion of urgent public importance moved by Hon. Ejike Okechukwu, the member representing Anaocha constituency 11, and also the House Committee Chairman on Education, Hon. Ejike noted that for about two weeks...

Handel Patrick, (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The Anambra State House of Assembly has summoned the State’s Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh to appear before the plenary for clarifications over certain issues relating to her office. According to the Media Aide to the Speaker of the House, Mr. Caleb Okechukwu, the summon was issued during the Tuesday plenary of the House, where some issues were raised about the Commissioner and recent activities of the ministry,...

ENUGU —The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Thursday in Abuja presented Strategic documents to the Enugu State Government for the establishment of the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS), Igbo-Eno, in Enugu State. In a letter dated 16th of June, 2022, Ref No: NUC/ES/599/VOL. 1/1 and signed by Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, Executive Secretary NUC, the presentation of Strategic documents and letter of recognition of SUMAS as the 60th state-owned University and 219th...

Open Educational Resources, (OER), repository of the National Universities Commission, (NUC) established in 2017 has over two million OERs in the form of courseware, lecture notes, textbooks, videos, maps, podcast, conference presentations, and journal. The Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, has disclosed this in Abuja at a two-day high-level Sensitization Workshop on mainstreaming OER in higher education in Nigeria, organized by the commission in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning, COL. Represented...

The University of Alberta, Canada has removed Nigeria from countries that have to present proof of their English language proficiency before admission. This followed a request made in writing by Dr. Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, a Nigerian postdoctoral research fellow in Canada, to the University of Alberta’s graduate school asking that applicants from Nigeria be exempt from taking the test. Dr. Igbalajobi, who hails from Ekiti State, South-west Nigeria, May 22, emailed and tweeted at the university’s...