ASUU Extends Warning Strike By Two Months, Federal Government Reacts

ABUJA — The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its warning strike for months. The National President of ASUU Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who spoke to reporters after the NEC meeting held at ASUU’s National Secretariat, University of Abuja, said the roll-over strike shall commence by 12.01am on Monday, March 14, 2022. Osodeke explained that ASUU’s NEC held an emergency meeting on Sunday, March 13, 2022, and review developments since the...

Female Inmate Emerges Best Graduating Student, Bags Second Class Upper Degree From NOUN

LAGOS — Okike Chinyere, a female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, Lagos State Command, has emerged as the best graduating student of the Department of Peace and Conflict Resolution, National Open University (NOUN). According to a statement by the correctional service, she bagged a second-class upper (2.1) degree in the course. Chinyere was among the eight inmates who received their Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) certificates in various degrees from the institution. Speaking during...

Obasanjo, Obi, Obiano, Soludo, Others Attend Maiden Emeka Anyaoku Institute Symposium

AWKA — Symposium of The Emeka Anyaoku Institute of International Studies and Diplomacy held today Tuesday, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University ASUU building. The occasion which attracted dignitaries, fine diplomats, academia, and political leaders, is the first organized by The Emeka Anyaoku Institute of International Studies and Diplomacy, which was established months ago and which building is still in progress within the premises of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Prof. Okechukwu Esimone the Vice-Chancellor of the...

Ministry To Train and Retrain Staff For Optimum Productivity

YOLA — The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Yola, Barrister Isuwa Misali has reiterated the cardinal objective of the Ministry is to train and retrain staff for optimum productivity. Barrister Isuwa disclosed this while declaring open a two-day in-house capacity building for Administrative lower cadre staff of the ministry, Tuesday, noted that when administrative staff have the requisite knowledge of their work government documents and transactions will be safe. He stated that due...

Every Child, Male or Female, Deserves to be Educated – JAMB Registrar

IBADAN — Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has stressed the importance of education, urging Nigerians to stop discriminating against the girl-child, especially in the area of education. Prof. Oloyede made the call while speaking at a lecture with the theme, “Celebration of the Girl-child Education” in Ibadan on Sunday. The JAMB registrar said that every child deserves to be educated regardless of gender, maintaining, however, that more...

TETFund Boss Tasks Entrepreneurs, Rich on Growing Nigerian Universities

IBADAN — Nigerian universities can grow and become more competitive globally if endowments and research foundations are provided by entrepreneurs and the rich, Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, has said. Bogoro stated this in Ibadan on Friday, at the inauguration of the new administrative building of Pan African University Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), University of Ibadan. “In many and most cases our entrepreneurs and our privileged rich are...

NGO Takes 3-in-1 Projects, Education Initiative to Grassroots to Encourage Learning of Science Subjects

LAGOS — A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Wuraola Owolabi Capacity Building Initiative (WAOO), has taken its 3-in-1 projects to public primary schools to encourage students at the grassroots to embrace science subjects. The 3-in-1 Project is an Education Support Initiative that includes setting up of Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Club, No Tattered Uniforms (NUT) in Lagos Public Schools, and Scholarship for 100 Indigent Engineering Students at Entry Point (100) in University and Polytechnic. Mrs. Wuraola...

A Graduate Should Be An Employer Of Labour – ASUU UNILAG Chairman

LAGOS — Mr. Dele Ashiru, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos State (UNILAG) chapter, has stated that university education is not suited for employability. Mr. Ashiru made the claim on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily and further maintained that graduates are supposed to be employers of labour. “There is a fundamental assumption that is wrong: university education is not for employability. That one is...

Gombe State Government Paid Offset Fees Of 23,000 Final Year Students

Gombe State Executive Council has approved the payment of their external exams fees for 23,000 final year students across secondary schools in the state. The Gombe State Executive Council meeting was presided over by the State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya held at the Government House, Gombe till late in the evening. Briefing Journalists, the Commissioner of Education, Dauda Batari Zambuk said the Council expeditiously granted approval of a total sum of N435, 272, 900 for...

Yul Edochie Reveals Why He Would Not Send His Kids To Study Abroad

LAGOS — Nollywood actor cum politician, Yul Edochie has given the reason he has decided against sending his kids abroad to study. On his verified Twitter page, the father-of-four revealed that though he could afford to send his kids abroad to study, he would not make such a decision. He noted that his children would study in Nigeria due to his love for the country, adding that for one to be able to build the...

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