Buhari Assents to Bill Extending Teachers Retirement Age By Five Years

EducationLabourNewsBuhari Assents to Bill Extending Teachers Retirement Age By Five Years

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 9, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act, 2022. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. On January 20, 2021, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a bill that sought to increase the retirement age and the service years of teachers. The essence of the bill was to give legal backing for the approval of the...

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Nigeria Gets First Sports University In Africa, Founded By Ned Nwoko

EducationNewsNigeria Gets First Sports University In Africa, Founded By Ned Nwoko

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 9, 2022

ABUJA — The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the issuance of provisional licenses for the establishment of 12 new private universities across the country including the first Sports University in Nigeria. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja. “The proposed private universities are Pen Resource University Gombe, Gombe State, Al-Ansar...

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Lack Of Functional Skills Contributes To Unemployment In Nigeria-Labour Minister

EducationLabourLack Of Functional Skills Contributes To Unemployment In Nigeria-Labour Minister

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 8, 2022

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has attributed lack of functional skills led to most Nigerian youths remaining unemployed.  Ngige was speaking in Abuja on Thursday while declaring open a one-day ‘Job, Career and Employability Fair’; said the Nigerian government is conscious that most unemployed are those without functional skills. The fair was organised by the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) with the theme ‘Promoting...

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Enugu Govt. Appoints Prof. Nnabugwu Okolie As ESUT Vice-Chancellor

EducationJobsEnugu Govt. Appoints Prof. Nnabugwu Okolie As ESUT Vice-Chancellor

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)April 5, 2022

ENUGU — The Enugu State Government has appointed Professor Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie as the new Vice-Chancellor, VC, of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT with effect from Monday, April 4, 2022. Professor Okolie holds a Bachelor of Science degree (B.Sc.) in Political Science/Administrative Studies, a Master of Science (M.Sc.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations. Okolie, a Professor of Political Science and International Relations until his appointment was the...

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Vice Chancellors Of Nigerian Universities Advocate For Virtual Learning In Public Universities

EducationTelecommunicationVice Chancellors Of Nigerian Universities Advocate For Virtual Learning In Public Universities

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 28, 2022

The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU), South-West Zone, has stressed the need to develop policies and foster virtual learning in public universities. The Vice-Chancellors made the call in a communique issued at the end of its 60th anniversary with the theme, “Sixty-years in Sixty Minutes: Exploring Trends in the University System,” was jointly signed by Professor Aderonke M. Baiyeroju,  chairperson, Local Organizing Committee and Omolara O. Onipede, Secretary, Local Organising Committee respectively. The...

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Students Predicament Over NYSC, Blame Federal Polytechnic, Oko For Delaying Their Future

EducationNewsStudents Predicament Over NYSC, Blame Federal Polytechnic, Oko For Delaying Their Future

PilotnewsMarch 23, 20221

OKO — 2018/2019 academic students of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State, who rounded up their Higher National Diploma, HND, Programme, in May 2021, are blaming the Polytechnic for unnecessarily delaying them in serving their father’s land as Corp members, (National Youth Service Corps). The students would have graduated in 2020 but were halted due to the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. Nine months after graduation, the graduands are yet to serve their father’s land, which...

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Ife Indigenes Kick Against OAU’s New VC’s Appointment, Invade Campus With Fetish Objects, Charms

EducationJobsNewsIfe Indigenes Kick Against OAU’s New VC’s Appointment, Invade Campus With Fetish Objects, Charms

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 22, 2022

ILE-IFE — Protests by some indigenes of Ile-Ife over the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor for Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) turned ugly on Monday as some of the protesters invaded the campus, armed with charms and other fetish objects. On Thursday, March 17, the university governing council, led by its chairman, Owelle Oscar Udoji, announced a professor of Agricultural Economics, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, as the 12th substantive Vice-Chancellor. But some indigenes of the varsity’s...

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FG Claims There’s No Money For Varsities, But He Constructed Railway From Kaduna To Niger Republic – ASUU

EducationLabourFG Claims There’s No Money For Varsities, But He Constructed Railway From Kaduna To Niger Republic – ASUU

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 20, 2022

ABUJA — The Academic Staff Union of Universities has again blamed the Federal Government for the ongoing strike in public universities. The union’s national president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH stated that the government “went to sleep” for eight months after it completed negotiations with the union in May 2021. ASUU had on Monday, March 14, 2022, announced an eight-week rollover of its four-week warning strike, which ended a day earlier....

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2baba Donates Music Studio To OAU, Annie Idibia Kicks Over Poor Publicity

EducationEntertainmentMusic2baba Donates Music Studio To OAU, Annie Idibia Kicks Over Poor Publicity

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 16, 2022

ILE-IFE — Nigerian music icon, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has donated a music studio to the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife. The singer was present at the inauguration of the studio, which took place on Tuesday, March 15, and photos and videos of the ceremony were shared on the official Instagram page of Hypertek Digital, the singer’s music label. In informing his followers on Instagram of the development, 2baba also revealed plans to...

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30 Tertiary Institutions In Nigeria To Participate In Commonwealth Day Celebration

Award & RecognitionEducationNews30 Tertiary Institutions In Nigeria To Participate In Commonwealth Day Celebration

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 15, 2022

ABUJA — About thirty tertiary institutions in Nigeria would be competing in the Commonwealth scholarship award debate. The Commonwealth Society Ambassador for Nigeria, Ambassador Patricia Yakubu told journalists at the Commonwealth Day celebration with the theme ‘Delivering a Common Future’ in Abuja that this year’s celebration focuses on tertiary institutions. Yakubu said six schools would be chosen to participate in the debate at the African level after the competition in Nigeria, the winners would proceed...

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