The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke, has revealed how the union, during its last negotiations, rejected Federal Government’s plan to increase school fees of all university students to N1m. He said government’s plan was to open an education bank and give each student a loan of N1m annually at five per cent interest rate to sponsor themselves in school and then pay back when they graduate and start working....

YOLA — To forestall the breakdown of law and order, the management of Federal College of Education (FCE) Yola, Adamawa State Northeast Nigeria has shut down the institution following violent protest by the students of the school over alleged scarcity of water. The situation was aggregated when some of the rioting students were chased by armed military personnel and other security operatives. The presence of security operatives has provoked the students to go wild, set...

LAGOS — Solomon Adeola, chairman of the Senate Committee of Finance has promised to intensify the facilitation of educational materials and skills acquisition for his constituents in Lagos West. Adeola disclosed this while distributing textbooks, exercise books, mathematical sets, school bags, and modern writing boards with 10,000 students/pupils as beneficiaries and a 16-seater school bus for teachers in the senatorial district at Vantage Event Centre, Ikeja. The lawmaker added that the project was a means...